I miss my family. And my MINI. In that order. 14 hours in economy from LAX to SYD, and according to Qantas last night – the flight is at 100% capacity. Oh joy oh bliss.
Author: Nick Hodge
Javascript, DOM
I should have learnt this fully years ago. A good source of info is here: Javascript and Level 1 DOM manipulation of HTML. There are some “things” I want to implement that can only be done using these methods. Looking into the history, it looks like there are many deep dark secrets. Such as Tantek’s hack: how to fool older browsers by taking advantage of bugs. Interesting.
SVG,C#
What a strange day. Spent the morning doing “sales management” stuff (part of my new job) and the afternoon looking at SVG, C# and debugging SOAP/Webservices style communication with the Adobe Graphics Server.
Cari pointed this out: Photoshop Camera Raw and JPEG2000 plugins for Photoshop 7.0. These are purchaseable downloads from adobe.com. Camera Raw gives you much greater control when loading images from Digital Cameras.
For a while there, the world began and ended on Monday December 2, 2002. Sorry about that. Coding error my end. Been a lot of that lately on my end. Thanks Mark.
Google and SOAP
A day of web site tweakages. google search in my navigation bar and a new SOAP based MSN Messenger status. This was implemented in 3 lines of PHP!
Neil Finn
Now this is scary. Neil Finn as described by Googlism. You can type in your name, and there is a report of what google knows of you…
80’s Music Lyrics. I wonder if we could load the lyrics into the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server? Wouldn’t that be cool.
ManagementZen
Management zen phrase of the day: Ideas are easy, implementation is hard.
Acrobat Reader without Custom CGI
Adobe Acrobat Reader and Forms Data without Custom CGI. This has been in progress for a while – so its good to get this technique published.
1980s Music Lives Again
Is it wishful thinking on my behalf, or is the music of the 1980s “hip”? On Qantas flights in recent months the inflight music has been distinctly 1980s: Nena’s 99 Luft Balloons (English language version) and Tears for Fears (somewhat ironic if you are afraid of flying). Now Mitsubishi Motors (Australia) are using
gorgeous - circa 1495, from Middle French gorgias "elegant, fashionable, fond of jewelry," lit. "necklace" from Old French gorge "bosom, throat," also "something adorning the throat." From Online Etymology Dictionary I saw this word used in relation to the new 17inch screen on the new iMacs Apple have announced. Whenever I see or hear the word, there is an instant recollection of the song You’re Gorgeous by Babybird and London. It was on the radio when Avril and I were in the UK in May 1997. The words are a little naughty so I won’t link them here. Something about a car. The root of the word is naughty enough. Isn’t language a wonderful thing? From Apple for MacOS X users: Using and Managing Fonts in MacOS X Happy birthday Mum.
Stuff
Hello, Adelaide and Perth!
GASAA PDF for Print, Oct Nov 2002 Jan 2003
InDesign Scripting Stuff
InDesign 2.0: Adding Tab to Table Cells. Pretty esoteric. There is a MacOS version here Add Tab to Cell Contents Script (MacOS .sit from adobeevangelists.com)
Thanks to Tim Cole’s perstering, InDesign 2.0: Pasting As Text Only on Windows is a Windows version of Paste as Text Only (MacOS .sit from adobeevangelists.com). Don’t thank me, thank Tim.