Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Monday, October 15, 2007

Munich

In case you've seen Munich, Best Buy has it available at only $10! I was very surprised, usually the good movies are more expensive. Admittedly, it's definitely NOT for kids, or even those easily upset. That said, when bug is older (early teens I think) he will definitely have an assignment to watch and critique/discuss/etc.

Friday, October 05, 2007

Two sites for iPhone users: Flickr's iPhoneWallpapers group and iPhone-Wallpapers.net. I get to choose cool wallpapers. Yay.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

iPhone

Okay, new update: we own iPhones now. We just couldn't resist. I really think that they are going to usher in an age of, not just portable computing, but mobile computing. Previous cell phones just don't come close to matching the iPhone's usability, which directly affects if users even want the device. That said, I wish it had built-in IM. Well, I'm also reloading my personal laptop, so I'm going to get back to that now.

Friday, September 21, 2007

iPod Shuffle

So, we now own an original iPod Shuffle (not the newer ones). Need to replace the battery as it doesn't hold a charge. We are "drinking the Apple juice" according to one of my coworkers.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Prototype, Firefox, and Iframes

If, for some reason, you are using iframes, and you try to call a parent frame's AJAX function from within that iframe, and care about Firefox compatibility, use window.setTimeout(realFunctionHere, 0) in that parent window's function. Because Firefox doesn't like iframes calling AJAX in a parent frame/window at all. Info gotten from here, I ran into this because FF stopped working for one of my AJAX handlers where I was coming from an iframe. I thought the iframe might be the culprit, and that it was an anti-XSS issue, but nothing was saying "security violation". Specifically, I was getting '0x80004005 NS_ERROR_FAILURE prototype.js :: anonymous :: line 1035' (in case anyone's Googl(e)ing this entry). Also, being as to Google is now a verb, how does the active tense work? Does it have an 'e' or not? Hmm... things to ponder.