March 2009
9 posts
Currently learning the ins-and-outs of Flash for my job. Can’t shake the feeling that I am selling my soul.
"The Last Question" - Isaac Asimov →
Science fiction, at its best, is not about the future or about technology, but about people and our place in the universe. This is one of Isaac Asimov’s best-known short stories:
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and...
In This Economy →
valhallaisland:
I like to think of the financial crisis not as a disaster but as a correction.
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If businesses can’t afford staff that do nothing, social media consultants fail to get contracts for the contrived, pointless job they do or car manufacturers struggle to sell the same bland, overpriced, void-of-any-innovation machines they’ve been pedalling for the...
PROTIP: Console is dangerous w/o DOM Ready
If you’re not using an easy $(document).ready() a la jQuery, or something of the like, be careful using Console.log() in your Javascript code even if you’re using Firefox.
My code was only occasionally being executed because the browser was choking on the unknown Console. The kicker is that Firebug won’t show an error for this (as it’s not loaded yet). Tell-tale sign:...
“No.”
– Should I use tables for layout? (via esquareda)
An HTML table is meant for tabular data. HTML should impart meaning to content. If your layout is tabular data (hint: It’s not), then by all means go ahead and use tables for layout.
Megaphone desktop tool →
The Megaphone desktop tool is a Windows “action alert” tool developed by Give Israel Your United Support (GIYUS)…
The tool delivers real-time alerts about key articles, videos, blogs, and surveys related to Israel or the Arab-Israeli conflict, especially those perceived by GIYUS to be highly critical of Israel, so that users can vote or add comments expressing their...
