Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Stayed home with a cold. Added a tiny bit of Javascript code to my bookmarks page to clear fields when you give them focus. The fields always have default values because that's what web accessibility guidelines recommend. It never really bothered me much since I usually just hit the keyboard shortcut or tab into the field which auto-selects the default value and then I just type over it, but Patrick uses the mouse and he's the one who asked for the feature so it was no problem to add it. Dinner at home with Patrick: lemon chicken, peas, butter and bread. Helped Patrick set up Don Don's old vinyl player—we're gonna rip and re-rip some old vinyl, such as Duran Duran Master Mixes (rare, I think), DefCon1, Scritti Politti, and about a dozen others. Mostly 12-inch remixes and though I haven't checked I'm pretty sure some of it is rare or only available on vinyl. Some of these had been ripped in the past but were lost in a hard drive crash. Discovered channel9.msdn.com which has some interesting information about Longhorn and Avalon. That site was also where I discovered the answer to the problem of Microsoft Antispyware alerts flying off the screen—known problem when the taskbar is anywhere but default, they're working to fix it in the next version. I also only noticed today that those alerts fly off the screen but I think they don't go away—if you bring up the Task Manager, those hidden alerts are taking up about 8 MB each (!)—I had 4 when I checked. Since there's no way to access them after they've flown away, they're taking up RAM until you log off or reboot. That site also seemed to confirm that Microsoft Antispyware won't run unless someone is logged in.