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I had to uninstall my irc client at work because of security policy. Also, I needed an excuse to use a clever title derived from Jonathan Coulton's PopSci Podcast On The Moon. Thanks JoCo!

A development team here at GoDaddy (see standard disclaimer below) is looking for a web UI developer and I thought I'd post it here as a way to help out. This is a standards-based (X)HTML/CSS/Javascript developer position, working with java code on a open-source stack (linux/apache/tomcat/hibernate/struts...).

(This is the content of a short reaction paper for SLG 102, the sign language class Jodi and I are taking at Chandler-Gilbert Community College)

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Jodi just updated her blog (go Jodi!) with news of our lovely daughter's recent ear piercing (she's elated), birthday (parents are exhausted), and discovery of a new way to listen to music:

Unbelievable. IE(6/7?) does not send onchange events for radio buttons correctly.

Living life in a cubicle? At work, I just moved from the cozy confines of the designer's room (khaki walls, IKEA-provided indirect lighting, ironic bank of high-school lockers) to a spot in the developer's cube-farm. So I've started looking for links to resources for improving my surroundings.

I've been working again on a tool at work that uses JQuery to dynamically load various files into the content area of a locally based web page to test css-based templates. The tool was working fine in Firefox and IE6, then I recently "upgraded" to IE7 and it went all wonky on me. After a day or so of Googling, I found this post from Xavier Hanin: IE7 support for XmlHttpRequest which details the fact that IE7's XMLHTTPRequest cannot load files from disk (file:// urls).

I whipped up an XFN test page with some XFN test data for those developing parsers or other tools. It has all the canonical cases from the 1.1 profile, as well as a variety of common-sense two-relationship combinations, and a basic set of invalid relationships (>1 friendship value, for example).

Looks like iPhone may be powered by ARM indeed:

I've ditched del.icio.us, and imported all my links into ma.gnolia, based largely on an interview with Tara Hunt (of community marketing studio Citizen Agency) by Brian Oberkirch. The site is very nicely designed, the link bookmarklet works well, and they have ratings on links. (Hm, Perhaps I should recommend they add vote-links support...)

The Stevenote is today, and as anyone who has spent time in the RDF will tell you, it's like the Nexus: "a mysterious plane of existence in which time has no meaning, and one may live in pure bliss forever"...

>From your 169 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,640 items, starred 0 items, and shared 40 items.

As a few of my readers may have discerned, I've gotten a bit obsessed with microformats lately. Microformats are simple ways to add machine (searchengine, browser-plugin)-readable information to normal, XHTML-based web pages. They are designed to be simple so that they are easy for authors and publishers to add to their content rather than having to support separate, more verbose content formats.

"This is my life and this is my time"...

>Stationed at South Korea's border with the North, my friend's job was to create soundscapes. By mixing sound effects loops, he created the audio illusion of an apparently endless procession of armored vehicles. To the North Koreans, who could not see what was on the other side, it sounded like an immense army was mobilizing at their border.

If you find yourself behind a firewall or filter that blocks popular podcast file servers like libsyn, try out the Feed Coralizer. The Feed Coralizer rewrites the feed, routing (mp3/m4a/m4v/wav/aiff/wma/wmv/mov/mp4/mpeg/avi/pdf) files through the Coral network.

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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.

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I've finally updated my about page, with some new information, hcard marked-up content, and (for posterity's sake) a copy of my first about page ever.