so, it turns out that even though isindex is depracated in favor of using inputs, there’s really no elegant way to do what isindex does with inputs – that is append a value (not a name-value pair) to the query string. (neither moz or ie will submit a value without a name/id) so, the way i had to do it is by way of silly javascript hack (calling a document.location change onsubmit of the form).

My Sidebar Developer’s Guide – this does not have any information on how, if it is possible, to make a particular sidebar tab pop up/out. oh, never mind just learned that it’s bug 14224.

radiohead have their blips online for download. that’s pretty cool. unfortunately, they’re not very high res. plus they don’t have the cool countdown that gets shown before the blips on mtv2.

oh yeah, be sure to try going to the root of the site.

after a buncha fooling around, i got everything to compile and run w/ mod_ssl, but it’s still not running. oh well. upgraded to the latest versions of apache and php while i was at it at least. i guess i’ll leave it be for now.

The Web is the Ultimate Copy Protection – basically about how web applications gain copy protection because they’re never installed on end-user machines. that’s good for the asp, of course the user’s up a creek if the asp goes out of business, or discontinues the product, or even worse stores your data and goes out of business. I’m not sure if there’s really any way around this. I suppose that one would have to make sure that the eula a user agrees to with the asp covers such eventualities.

i ordered a copy of all the pretty horses from amazon.com the other week because it appeared they were still selling the pre-movie edition. so, yesterday the book finally arrives, and lo and behold it’s the movie-edition, gawdawful cover and all. i shouldn’t be so peeved, but i am, i really am.