Jibbering.com has some javascript related information, in fact it has very little else, following as it does from my javascript fascination. The most important resource is the comp.lang.javascript FAQ.
Otherwise I create lots of scripts in support of usenet postings or similar help, they don't always have any discussion, or documentation, and should really be looked at in context of their usenet posts. However they may be useful to someone:
If you want to know who I am, or what I'm like, come buy me a beer and I'll tell you stuff, or you can just look through my usenet posts archived in google which might give you some idea. Online photo albums are often a way people use to get an idea about a person - here's mine - The online photo album of Jim Ley
(a)I work for a UK company e-Media and spend most of my time on a PowerPoint broadcasting service - http://www.showcaster.com/ which allows you to record your PowerPoint Presentation over the phone and broadcast it to people on demand.
What do I actually look like? Search rdf co-depiction data for me, if you really want to know...
I also run, although I'm pretty bad at it - I'm a member of the 26.2 Road Runners Club in Surbiton, Surrey
An excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman seems most odd, and I'm wondering if Zeldman has gone bonkers. (or if it really is Eric Meyer in disguise and he's finally cracking up under the strain of multiple personalities.)
There are a number of things I find odd, the most being the first thing he lists as a strength of CSS/XHTML/DOM namely:
At last attain precise control over layout, placement, and typography in graphical desktop browsers.Which doesn't seem to acknowledge the fact that CSS etc. reduces the control developers have by explicitly encouraging user stylesheets, and different default stylesheets in browsers.
There's also the odd definition of "backward compatibility", that looks like a strawman to me, but it may just be the circles I move in, In any case I struggle to see how HTML 4.01 strict isn't backwards compatible, it's certainly more backwards compatible than XHTML...
Then we have: "Transition from HTML to XML ...", which again is odd, them being different things, and the slightly odd references to javascript, particularly missing the fact that we've had standard script implementations since IE4/NN4.
Hopefully the introduction is just taking all these things out of context and the book is useful, unfortunately I fear all too much that it will be advocating xhtml as text/html just like his own site does.
So Newcastle publicans can't have a scarf with shite on because it might cause offense, but you can call the majority of the population scum without a problem, get this man in court - well don't actually, don't have any of them anywhere near a court, but if a scarf with shite in a pub is offensive being called scum on the BBC definately is.
Hixie has a nice article on xhtml as text/html considered harmful - hopefully xhtml 1.0 (and 1.1 for that matter) will soon die out.
RDFIG pointed me at some Airport data, this let me turn it into RDF and then plot routes in SVG, e.g. my proposed Cricket World Cup Flights or all the flights I could remember I've done recently.
I also plotted a map of all the airports in the USA, but that took 40minutes on a P4, so not too useful, but I created a PNG of US airports of it.
I just went to get some food from the job, and walking through the shopping arcade place, I came across a giant carrot which started screaming and running away from a giant rabbit - and no I'd not even been drinking.
Apparently they were shooting a film, there was also a big crowd of people wearing Hare Krishna robes, so it sounds a pretty odd film, professional set-up though, big location team. Unlike the last film I found myself in camera on, when I was skating on Brighton esplanade and a guy in tights jumped on a guy cycling a broken bicycle whilst a guy with a camcorder filmed.
So if you see a giant carrot running away from a rabbit - I might be in the background!
Yesterday in the 3 mile handicap at the running club I managed 21:26, 1 second outside my PB (but only my 3rd best time!). A bit annoying as I didn't actually run quite as hard as I should've so a PB really was on.
So yesterday the site disappeared for about 2 hours, it was all the leased line providers fault, still at least it came back, so I guess I shouldn't complain too much, it also meant I got my notebook mobile connection working. I guess I have to admit I have one of those evil mobiles in fact I actually average well over an hour a day in calls on it. Still the solution to hixie's problem is to simply get a phone, and disable the microphone on it, then you can't talk, but can use the modem - the one I've got like this is only GSM modem though, not GPRS.
Buy a monkey and you can own the only thing that was any good at all from ITV Digital.
Handy BBC quiz to test if you're a couch potato.
Scarf causes offence - well actually it doesn't of course, some very petty police officer decides to report the landlord for allowing the display of a scarf in her pub which made some remarks about sunderland supporters. More amazingly than the police officer though (who was probably just a sunderland supporter with a grudge against the landlady.) was the CPS who actually took the case to court.
The police are really losing my respect, they have poor priorities in what they investigate, and so many just do not know how to talk to a member of the public, even when I was young (and I'm only 28) policemen could talk to you, now they just jump on you with their cs-spray (you can't call it a gas, bad PR.), batons, rigid cuffs and everything. The policemen of even 10 years ago, could talk most people into being arrested, now the majority can hardly tell you the time, but are more than up for a fight.
