Vikki: Wasting away my vacation time on a cold..

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I'm officially sick. And bored. Now that I don't play Wow I don't have anything to do while I'm sick. Not really a good enough reason to stick that needle back in my arm but tempting.

The absolute best part is that I'm wasting the vacation time I've so carefully hoarded for a trip next year to visit Brandon's brother. What a lame way to spend vacation time.

The good news is I will most likely have memorized the majority of several Harry Potter books as I keep falling asleep in the middle of the CD and restarting it. This will come in handy when the Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit game comes out. Yay for merchandising.

On the bright side, Brandon is an excellent sick nurse. I'd be willing to rent him out. He makes a wonderful tea with honey from his mum and dad's bees. So at least I have that going for me.

And at least I don't have to feel guilty about my increased appetite. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1777 Woot!

Sniffling: Sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Brandon: Tinkering

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So, I'm playing around with some new stuff.

First off is dynamic details. Add as many detail fields as you want.

Secondly are tags for posts. This is currently in beta, I think it works ok, but I'm not sure. Use it to help categorize your posts and stuff.

I think: it works


Tags (beta): news, vent

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Brandon: Busy...

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Sorta.

So here is where I work

Wilder Technologies

Its not a bad place, but currently I'm the only programmer working on the software. It's actually quite an elegant design. A shining example of object oriented programming. However, all that abstraction makes it difficult to work with sometimes.

Anyways, Its a nice place here. Really small company and all that. All in all I like it.

More later, probably.


Working Hard: or hardly working?

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Brandon: So...

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I think I might have gotten a real job.

Woot!

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Brandon: I'm getting all AJAXed up!

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So, yeah, I got bored.

I noticed that the Picasa albums were sometimes causing the site to load slowly since the rest of the site had to wait until they were loaded to show properly.

So, I decided to change that, and using a little AJAX (with very little of the X part) the albums now load using JavaScript. The rest of the page will show and the albums should load momentarialy after the page does.

It works in Firefox, Safari, and IE7. It *might* work in IE6, and it *should* work in Opera.

If you have any questions or comments let me know.

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