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Civil Marriage Act – It’s been tabled today. It’s about time.

Which UI engineer at Microsoft thought that mapping Backspace to the ‘Back’ browser function in IE was a good idea? When you think you’re typing in a text field, but you’re not, and suddenly you’re not on the page you thing you are, that’s bad. Argh.

Bonus points for someone who can tell me how the fudge to disable this crap. For some apps at work I have to use IE, so Firefox is not a fix for this problem.

Holy crap, we were gone for a while. Now we’re back. Schweet.

So, you’re probably wondering, what the heck happened? Well here’s the short story:

chuma.org was hosted by my friend, Stan, because he was really nice back when I had no job and no webspace. Well, around the end of the year, the following things happened on top of the other:

• His server’s auxiliary power supply failed. It powered the RAID array.
• The RAID data was damaged and had to be rebuilt.
• One of the RAID drives failed and had to be replaced.
• His ISP went belly-up with approx. 72 hours notice that they were shutting off all of their services
• He broke his collar bone.

So that’s why I haven’t been able to get my data until today. Which I did. I just spent a few hours dumping my databases on a Sun box and re-importing them on my Linux box. So chuma.org is now on my box, so if it goes down again, you can directly blame me.

“Dead Like Me” Gets Killed – Oh Crap! Sandy’s going to be super-pissed about this when she wakes up.

CBC Toronto – TTC to put televisions in subway cars – they had better come up with a damn good way of preventing people from disabling them. I think it’s kind of sad that the TTC has to resort to further blasting passengers with ads in order to get cash. The walls and floors of stations are already plastered in stuff, entire subway cars are converted into moving billboards…

We got a new kitten. His name is Sam. Which means we now have Sam and Max. If you didn’t get the reference, you haven’t played enough early 1990s Lucasarts adventure games yet.

Anyways, here are some pictures of Sam.

life goes on.

working for too little.

things & stuff.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I think we all heard that GTA San Andreas came out the other day, but so did GTA Advance! Since I do the vast majority of my gaming on my GBA SP this was much more exciting for me.

GTA Advance somehow manages to keep the same feel as the original GTA, but scaled down to 240×160. The cars might look chunky but the feel makes up for it – things like the feel of the steering, the view zooming out when you accelerate, they all have that GTA feel.

So just when a decent portable version of GTA comes out, I run acrossGrand Theftendo, where some crazy guy has developed a homebrew NES (yes, 8-bit) game encompassing the entire first city of GTAIII – with hand-drawn pixel graphics. Mmmmmm… pixels.

This problem has been driving me nuts all day.

I have a list. Each item in this list has a sequence value, starting from 1.

I have a form to change the sequence of the items in the list. You can type in the sequence number to set it.

So, coming into my script I have the following data:

So, bar needs to go from 2 to 5, and all other values between 2 and 5 need to be renumbered. Why can’t I solve this frickin’ problem?

Today I found out that one of my classmates from UTS, Anthony Chan, passed away suddenly on Monday.