Month: October 2010

I’ve been an anti-flash guy for a pretty long time now but I’ve been “ok” with running flash on machines when I had flashblock installed.  Today however I ceded to Adobe’s nag and installed the latest upgrade to Flash — bringing me to Flash Player 10.1  It ran mostly in the background, and I had…

I wrote this in summer of 2008.  My gang of friends had all come down to Woods Hole, and Mark Z. had brought a sweater he had found in his apartment.  All the girls we knew were assembled, yet no  one claimed the sweater.  After the weekend, emails flew among the group trying to decide…

I’ve had some issues with pushing strings in JSON to a browser and having the browser parse them correctly.  Some browsers will take strings as argument, some want numbers — it’s a bit confusing.  To avoid all confusion, I recommend making a new date and then setting the values, rather than using the ambiguous constructors,…