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• Pageless scrolling for large datasets, Demo
• Massive Blimplike thing. This sounds like something out of Snowcrash or Diamond Age. In that “Delivering something halfway around the world for 5 cents and helping the invisible hand” sort of way.
• Physical->Virtual machine converter. I’ve wanted this for a long time to do a functional backup of my windows box. And now VMWare is (for now) giving it away. The price for doing this sort of thing was about $100/machine the last time I checked, priced for the corporate it types, not the low budget ones.
• New version of Moo.fx, a light weight javascript library that now looks like it can do everythign that Iw as doing with scripticaulous, but at a lighter weight download. It’s doog for pages where people tend to refresh often to get new data but you’d rather not have them grabbing 100k of javascript everytine they do it.
• Mochikit Animator looks interesting.
• Dojo Chart Engine. No safari support. But I could use a graphing module, and I’m not finding ones that I like on the serverside.
• This chickpea curry is really good.

Doesn’t really like flash photography. But he’s the one who curled up in the middle of it.

Got a Linksys SPA3102 box to add some VOIP capability to the home phone, mainly so that we can cut out most of the long distance costs here. Like calling down to Useless Bay, that’s 10c/minute. Ireland, on the other hand, is 8. Voip? about 1c/min each.

It a nice little box, one phone plug for the wall, one for the phone, one ethernet for the uplink, and one for anything that you might want to put down stream. If the power’s out, it routes the phone straight to the wall. I’ve got it setup that emergency, local, and 1800 numbers go through the phone system, and anything else goes through the internet.

There are still a few bugs to work out — there’s some static that comes and goes, I don’t know if it’s a bad cable or there is some interference somewhere. It only happens with the cordless phone, so I’m suspecting interference. There’s also a lot of echo when doing touch tones over the phone system, enough that it makes getting voicemail difficult. I’ve seen some echo cancellation settings as well as some dtmf ones, so there’s a bit of playing that I need to do.

Mini Dial Plan Link Dump: 1 Manual, pdf 3

• Trusted Computing for Mac OS X. The hardware is on my system, there’s just nothing in the software taking advantage of it.
• Event Delegation versus Event Handling Delegate from items in a heirarchy, so that only the root nod needs to handle the events, instead of handling the events in each individual leaf node. deusx is doing this in his xoxo outliner stuff.
• Optimizing Page Load Time There’s a trade off for many small requests vs one larger request. The real question is: how often does gsizipped javascript trip up IE, since Yahoo says that all their class a browsers work with gzipped javascript.
• Animations using javascript but lighter than scriptaculous or some of the other heavy weight libraries.
• No Silver Bullet. Some things will always be hard.