I realised this morning that my new ALA article about complex dynamic lists was released, the signs were obvious:

What really put a big grin on my face was the following browser stat though:

I nearly lost half my redesign of onlinetools.org, the half finished translation of the unobtrusive JavaScript course and lots of job-related experiments and tryouts when I was clumsy enough to spill a whole cup of coffee onto my company’s Thinkpad T40.

One hour of the opened laptop in front of a huge fan helped to boot the Bios and another half hour of the harddrive alone on the fan made it work again.

I will get me one of these as soon as I can find it at an affordable price. And yes, I did back up the data onto my USB caddy and the server.

Could it be saved by the fact that I don’t use sugar and only soy milk?

I just stumbled upon a picture on deviantart that was done in MS Paint in 500 hours.

And I thought I waste time. Don’t get me wrong, the skill is amazing and hats off to the man, but why use MS Paint for a job like that?

I am very pleased to see the numbers of visitors on my Unobtrusive JavaScript self training course, and I am currently translating it to German. I realised there was no way to leave a comment yet, and going through emails is tiring sooner or later, so let’s start a post here instead. :-)

I just read this wonderful request for a chicken cam on the evolt.org list, and I consider it a great idea. I’ll be glad to help with the web site code, granted I can add a Gonzo picture somewhere. :-)

Partly related to that: The chinese have found a way that enables you to stroke a chicken over the web (Ananova). A video of that stunt is available on the republica site in italy.