Got up to rotate some fluids and noticed that driph had sent me a message to check out the new dynamic mode on kuro5hin. Being the jaded kinda guy I am, I half expect it to be just some cheezy div-hiding coding or something, but it is in fact really doing DOM-based (well, if innerHTML isn’t supported) dynamic imports of nodes (wiring actions through an iframe), which is very nifty (code). We need more cool stuff like this to convince people that JavaScript in fact isn’t a bad thing (speaking of which, I thought rusty hated JS. Who kept him tied down while this happened?).

Obvious improvements of course would be allowing dynamic expansion by thread. Also, there’s probably no reason to remove the node on closing instead of hiding except for the way the placeholders are right now. Still it’s pretty cool that this DHTML widget is up, and being seen and used by real people. Of course I thought the stuff on IHT and Netflix would’ve caught on once people started seeing that, but that didn’t really happen.

Hmm, ok, going back to sleep. I was doing ok until this afternoon when I got sorta dizzy and nauseous and realized I my jaw ached and was swollen and all I really wanted to do was lie down some.

Business 2.0 Live! Transcript: Is the Information Revolution Dead? Part I: W. Brian Arthur, Andy Grove, and Lawrence Lessig speak at Business 2.0 Live! event in San Jose. Related: Hollywood vs. High-Tech: Disney’s Michael Eisner and others say Hollywood will defend its intellectual property at all costs. Silicon Valley eminences like Andy Grove say those are fightin’ words — if it means trampling consumers’ rights and squashing innovation.

What we need to be able to do is to start taking control of the language of this debate. Let’s start talking about the Dirty Money Copyright Act, the Senator From Disney, and how Michael Eisner has profited from “piracy”.

I’ve never ever used optgroup before, but that’s a neat little tag there, although, one wishes that say, nested select boxes, combo boxes, sliders, spin boxes could have been built in to the HTML spec already (or years ago).

Mozillazine has a list of Mozilla Bloggers now.

Mozilla’s DOM Sample Project

JSXML XML Tools – a regex based XML Parser (REXML) which is cross-platform, and pretty fast.

Uberman’s sleep schedule – a totally messed up 3hr/day sleep schedule. An especially interesting discussion thread is on the need for sleep and it’s role in neural network reorganizing. Sorta interesting how little we understand the human body and mind.

Speaking of knowledge organization, I’ve been entering some information into a wiki at work recently. I’ll have to get Lucid Fried Eggs and Everything2 another look, but I’m not sure if any of those are ideal for knowledge management. I’ve been looking at ideas on semantic/functional linking. A lot of stuff out there. I’ll probably post some more thoughts up, or just get started working. In any case, as it’s a pretty big task, the best approach would be to try to modularize a solution. Issues to deal with: inter/intranode linking, semantic linking, hierarchical m:n categorization, versioning, annotation.

The stuff I’ve been entering into the wiki has been mostly gathering links and resources that I’ve been putting on my blogs for the past years. One thing that was nice to gather up was a list of secure web programming techniques. I found a few new articles too, like a LSM 2001 talk by Rain Forest Puppy as well as another talk on common vulneratibilites in PHP Applications.

Hey, this is moronic. HierMenus went commercial a little while ago (list of alternatives on evolt), but here’s the kicker. There are two licenses, a Personal License, for “any non-commercial Web site that is less than 5 pages. The one-time licensing fee for a non-commercial Web site is U.S. $29.95.” Why the hell would a web site with less than 5 pages need a hierarchical menu anyway (and who’d be silly enough to pay $6/page)?!? The only other license is a Business License, the price which is based on the number of pages and requires contact a licensing representative. How weak.

Hellboy got greenlit. That’s cool!

Bleeding more or less has stopped, I can feel my lower lip again, and I have a good supply of Vicodin at my disposal. All in all, I think that turned out the best that it could.

I found this Advanced Session Security article on

PHP Traveller, a PHP weblog. Good to add to the list; the only other dedicated PHP blogs I know of are PHPDeveloper.org and PHP Everywhere.