Sam’s random musings

In case any one is interested it is 101 right now in the shade on my porch

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    if ( $productivity < 0 ) {
        $this->setError( 'Please hang up, and try again.' );
        exit;
    }
}
?>

note that the double dash keeps wanting to become a em-dash and I am not responsible for the smarten of the quotes, for those that want to criticize the code, get a life it’s a joke

Uni-Form:

Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.

An interesting approach using javascript to give a very nice indicator of where the current focus is. Gives clean mark up and they do look nice. There are some prototype versions of the jquery parts to handle highliting the elements as they get focus. Seems to have a nice semantic nature. Would be easy to build a version of the formHelper for cakephp to help make use of this down the road.

I know it’s only 2007, but this is the headline of…:

I know it’s only 2007, but this is the headline of the decade. For a story about people crossing a tightrope strung across the Han River in South Korea, AP came up with this masterpiece: Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo. (link)

That is funny

(Via kottke.org.)

Dilbert Daily Comic 2007-05-08:

(Via [COMICS] Dilbert.)

Bill Moyers Talks With Jon Stewart:

But war that hasn’t affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country. I think that’s why they’re so really - here’s the disconnect. It’s sort of this odd and I’ve always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President says, “We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. “And, so what I’m going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children’s children all suffer. So, what I’m gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad.”

So, there’s a disconnect there between - you’re telling me this is fight of our generation, and you’re going to increase troops by 10 percent. And that’s gonna do it. I’m sure what he would like to do is send 400,000 more troops there, but he can’t, because he doesn’t have them. And the way to get that would be to institute a draft. And the minute you do that, suddenly the country’s not so damn busy anymore. And then they really fight back, and then the whole thing falls apart. So, they have a really delicate balance to walk between keeping us relatively fearful, but not so fearful that we stop what we’re doing and really examine how it is that they’ve been waging this.

This is a great and insightful interview. You can watch it at this link… and read the transcript…

How to make sexy buttons with CSS:

Filed in Simple Tips & How To: How to make sexy buttons with CSS is a great little technique for making attractive buttons. It uses a simple and straightforward approach, too.

Ok I am sure lance can do this, but if I need to make a nice little button somewhere later I am sure it will be good to have this to look up….

(Via css help pile.)

Blog All You Want:

(Via Bug Bash.)