Seems that OSCON moved back to Portland in 2010, right when I wasn't paying attention. Well, then, looks like a daytrip is in order...

When a javascript snippet to change css properties in a page -- in this case, hiding and unhiding chunks of text -- fails on both mozilla and IE, but works on Safari, something is screwy. Nobody says much on the web about the error generated:

Exception ``[Exception... "Access to restricted URI denied" code: "1012" nsresult:...

It turns out that the restricted URI involved (though nothing actually gives the URI) is the imported stylesheet, which lives on a different server. Even though the actual css rules I was changing were in the local html file itself, if there are any off-server css rules at all, JavaScript can't edit them.

So. Now you know. (Mostly this is blogged because it was much too painful finding this out on my own. What finally tipped me off was an entry at slayeroffice on the site's CSS viewing bookmarklet.)

I'm sure it seemed like a good idea to put an estimate of remaining time just below the bar. But please, people, think of the users. The numbers should not increase. No. No.

Also, the numbers should bear some relation to reality. It's just bloody annoying to see "Time remaining: Less than one minute" for over 15 minutes.

Many thanks to Rael Dornfest for blosxom and blagg , to Todd Larason (some content NSFW) for his calendar plugin , Breyten Ernsting for the exclude plugin , and Jack Baty for phpetal .

I ended up with two one-line shell scripts like the following:
for i in *.txt ; do j=`awk 'BEGIN { do { l = getline; match($0, /Apr [0-9],/) ; s = substr($0,RSTART+4,RLENGTH-5) } while ((s !~ /[0-9]/) && (l !=0)) ; print s ; close(l)}' $i` ; if [[ $j == [0-9] ]] ; then k=`echo "2003040 $j 1100" | sed 's/ //g'` ; touch -t $k $i ; fi ;done
(The other matched for two digits before the comma.)

I decided to do this as a shell-and-awk script because I thought doing it in perl would be too complicated. :-P ]]> http://waxwolf.org/computers/livejournal.html I have both a livejournal and a weblog .
I like the weblog, because it uses blosxom , so it's easy, I can quickly post from my hiptop, and I can customize a lot. But most of my friends have livejournals and follow their friends pages.
Technology makes solutions. With any luck, this post will get sent to both. I've set it up so the minutiae of my site maintenance and the little quickie links won't show up on LJ, so that may help. Anyway, here goes.

Just read a review of the GP32, a handheld game console I'd never heard of before. Pictures of it look amazing, and the specs aren't too shabby either. Powerful enough to run emulators of a sickening array of game platforms, uses ?SmartMedia cards, support wireless multiplayer via cell phone.

It is indeed a cool little beastie. Lik-Sang has it up at $160; I don't know where to get it domestically.

Perhaps I should save up a bit...

Mind, this is just an opaque projector and not a monitor at all, and there would probably be problems with shadows, so a touchscreen lcd set into the table might be better. But I'm so tired of computers being set up like TV typewriters.

Mark Pilgrim of http://diveintomark.org/ has taken the next step: a hack that'll convert a website into faux refrigerator magnets, for fridge poetry. See http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/02/18/online_magnetic_poetry.html for the details.

And from http://www.newsoftheweird.com/ :

Marcos Martin Parra, 18, hit the basketball court again in January, only six months after having his head nearly severed from his body in a traffic collision caused by a drunken driver. Parra's skull had been ripped from the cervical spine and neck ligaments, leaving the head fragilely attached, only by the spinal cord. At St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Dr. Curtis Dickman performed first-of-a-kind surgery, which worked so well that Parra lost only about 5 percent of his neck's range of motion. [ABC News, 1-21-03; Arizona Republic, 11-18-02]