Sam’s random musings

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p>Before the year is over, a hearty…:

Dig on my friend another great year too you. And Eff them from here too

(Via Scripting News.)

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com Markwell was paddling on his surfboard Sunday off the popular Hikkaduwa beach resort on Sri Lanka’s palm-fringed southern coast when he was swept up by a tsunami wave and sent crashing over a white sand beach and into a hotel restaurant.

Tsunami Satellite Images:

JakeisBland writes “Here is a collection of before/after satellite pictures of the devastation in Asia due to the tsunami/earthquake.”

(Via Slashdot.)

How to fix Mom’s computer [Scribbling.net] Went home for the holidays this week, and of course, the annual fix-Mom’s-computer event. This year things on my mother-in-law’s Windows 98 PC were especially bad; it could’ve been used as a software showcase of the latest and greatest in malware.

For future reference, here’s a laundry list of steps I took to get Mom’s computer working and secured from evil software.

Apple Promotes Tsunami Relief:

As of this writing, the homepage at apple.com is promoting organizations aiding those hurt by the Indian Ocean tsunamis.

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Thanks for the link John G.

(Via Daring Fireball Linked List.)

NOAA Quicktime Movie of the Indonesian Tsunami:

Just talked to the elder daughter about how waves could kill 52K (and counting) people. After talking about the physics - the raw energy involved and the transmission of force over a distance - involved, I showed her this Quicktime movie from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Brrrrrr.

Great visual.

(Via code: theWebSocket;.)

Depiction of Shock Waves created by Killer Quake:

(Via RAW Data.)

all in the — XMLHttpRequest for The Masses The idea itself is very simple. By using JavaScript, a web page can make requests to a web server and get responses in the background. The user stays on the same page, and generally has no idea that script running on the page might be requesting pages (using GET) or sending data (using POST) off to a server behind the scenes.

This is useful because it enables a web developer to change a page with data from the server after the page has already been sent to the browser. In a nutshell, this means that the page can change based on user input, without having to have pre-empted and pre-loaded that data when the page was generated.