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Really, I don’t like the term AJAX. However, technically, I think that’s what my DeleteComment function does. It sends a request to the server, and updates the current DOM to reflect this. There’s no reason why normal Comments can’t be added or edited in the same way. Instead of the Edit Comment/Post opening up a new page, I might just make them turn the area into a textarea, and allow editing. Then, when clicking out (or perhaps, Save), the data is uploaded back to the server, and the page updated. This would make it very cool to edit posts in-place. For this, I might be better off investigating other options rather than re-building my own. Although that is kind of fun.

I just love this image: I can’t recall where it came from, but it makes me chuckle, each time I look at it.

The adult version of the joke that “Babies are machines for turning milk into shit”:

The first thing you need to do is login to the PlanetDomain site: I hope you can remember the username and password that you used when you registered the account. Then choose the Email Forwarding item from the Manage Domain menu: Your nameserver information should be correct: it defaults to the values required and noted in the page. Click on: You only have one domain, so you can just choose Continue on the next page. Now is the time to enter data. I;ve put my example data in the image below: you’ll want to use whatever it is you want. info in the top box, and a valid email address that the messages will be forwarded to in the very bottom box. Please note that PlanetDomain.com does not host your email, it simple redirects any email coming in to this address to the address in the bottom box. You will need an address on another server that will actually store the mail. If you want a Gmail account (Free, very large capacity, web and email program access) I can send you an invite. You can just point the bottom address to your current email address, and leave it as that for as long as you want. If you wanted to set up a seperate account later, that’s no big deal. With this done, any email that is sent to the top address (info@tutch.com.au) will automatically arrive at the bottom address. There may be a couple of minutes delay (mydomain.com had a problem earlier this year where mail was delayed for up to a week, but this sort of thing is pretty unusual). What you may wish to do is have more email addresses (e.g. sales@tutch.com.au, support@tutch.com.au) and have these pointed towards the same or different email addresses. You can get at this through a new button that has appeared on the first Email Forwarding screen: You can then press Continue, and the following screen will appear. On this page, you can set up as many addresses as you want (up to a limit of 50). These can point to the same or different email mailboxes, or even have the same address pointing to different mailboxes. The final thing you may wish to do is set up your email program so you can send email and it ‘comes from’ info@tutch.com.au, or another address you may have set up above. This will depend on the email client you are using, and there are probably some good resources on Google for how to do this. I can help you with Gmail or Apple Mail, but if you are using Outlook or anything else, I won’t be able to give step-by-step instructions.

Call Me Fishmeal.: This Post is Microsoft Enhanced (TM).

But, hey, I’m fine with having to come home before my favorite shows and unschedule them and then reschedule them so my DVR will suddenly decide it’s OK to record them again. I like to think of it as sort of rotating the tires; I keep the show schedule fresh. It’s amazing how much less TV you’ll watch when you have to reschedule everything every week, too. Besides, it’s not like the POINT of having a DVR is you DON’T have to be there to start each recording manually. And this is first-generation technology, right? Right? I mean, there’s NEVER been any other brands of DVRs, right? Microsoft invented this shit, no? And enhanced it?

Wil gets stuck into his DVR and it’s foibles. Made me chuckle, ‘cause I don’t know him. (With thanks to Homer J.) But seriously, I think he’s got a point.

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I’ve got some serious JavaScript_age_ going on with my site: I sometimes wonder if it’s too much. One thing I have noticed is that on my iMac I get occasional “There is a script taking a long time to finish. Continue/Stop Script” errors, but never see these on the PC. I also don’t see them under IE/Win, the platform I am forced to use at work. I also get errors with Camino, but I’m not sure about Safari. I’ve gone into about:config, and changed dom.max_script_run_time from the default of 5 to 20, just to see if that makes a difference.

I have my Dock hidden, and aligned to the left of the screen. I don’t really use it for much other than a launcher, although I do have a couple of shortcuts to folders there as well. I tried to drag an image from a website into one of these folders. I can drag like this to the desktop, or any open window. Why can’t I do this to a folder Dock icon? This seems crazy!

I’ve noticed that Mail.app really takes ages to render HTML emails, or those with images in them. Seconds elapse between clicking on a message, and it fully rendering in the preview pane.

From Scot Hacker’s blog: