Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I am still trying to wrap my head around this amazing development. Through the numbing fog of cynicism and despite a generalized suspicion of politics, I was genuinely moved when Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech. It really does feel monumental and historic.
What happened in CA with Prop (h)8, though? Lame.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I had a javascript hiccup, and I think the solution may be helpful to others.
The basic setup is this:
Limited space means no room for labels in a login form. So instead we used a preset value in the input elements, like so:
<input value="Username" name="username" type="text" /> <input value="Password" name="password" type="text" />
Which looks like this:
The easy way to blank out the descriptive text is to use the onfocus event like so:
onfocus="this.value=''"
Friday, November 30th, 2007
The NY Times has published a column in its Bits Blog that summarizes the evolution of Facebook’s Beacon advertising program.
I think that it is more revealing than focusing on the backlash or petitions to actually examine the program itself, along with the supposed improvements made by Facebook along the way. The column does a good job at pointing out the small tweaks that seem to address raised concerns, while essentially presenting the same thing again, but with more labels.
It becomes the user’s responsibility to be ever watchful for Facebook’s unorthodox info harvesting. A better approach would have been a way to opt-in instead of having to constantly opt-out. There is currently no way to globally say “no thanks” and be done with it, either.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Photos of a 10-day whirlwind of sightseeing along the Nile River are now online:
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
image uploaded to latimes.com by Irvine resident
The hills around my office are on fire. Part of a huge firestorm in Southern California. The air is filled with smoke, and close to half a million people have been evacuated from their homes in surrounding areas, but life remains strangely familiar. The dusky sunlight gives an eerie cast to the day, but businesses are open here and people are out doing errands while ash snows down on their heads.
Amid all the confusion and chaos, I am still packing and preparing for a vacation to Egypt. My ordinary life has become surrounded by the remarkable and extraordinary, so the normal anticipation has been turned sideways. I am no longer escaping a normal life and returning to a normal life. The incredible things I’ll see as part of my travels will dovetail with the incredible things I am seeing on television and out my window.
I wonder how this will all fit together in my memories.
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