Beautiful stuff, from Dan Vanderkam.
http://www.danvk.org/wp/dragtable/

I swear the BC government is being run by monkeys.

They just sent every resident a $100 “Climate Action Dividend”. One may wonder what has this got to do with the environment? Good question: absolutely NOTHING. Accompanying the cheque is a short statement by Gordon Campbell saying it’ll make it easier for British Columbians to “choose a lower carbon lifestyle”, and a link to a very thin website outlining some suggestions on how to be green.

Personally, I’m going to take this $100 and fill up the gas tank of my hummer.

(I joke, of course: it would barely fill up a quarter of the tank).

Why on earth couldn’t they just characterize this as what it clearly is: an economic stimulus package? Are they afraid it would freak out the consumers, rushing from McDonalds to the mall? And why the need to falsely brand it in a green vein? I sure as hell hope this cash doesn’t come out of the total funds allocated for province-wide environmental pursuits. That would make me angry. And Gordon Campbell wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.

But like everyone else, it’s kinda hard to complain when people hand you money for no reason. So I’ll just shutup and put it towards my student loans. But I will say this: if I ever see Mr. Campbell in the street, I’m gonna bitch-slap the man.

Wow – today I hit 10,000 spam received this month, all caught by gmail’s spam filter. It’s probably a modest figure by some standards but since I normally I hover around 6-7,000, this feels like a real feat!

In case you missed the 298791876987161 articles on the subject, Firefox 3.0 is officially being released today. Whoo-hoo!

Looks like their servers are a little overworked, though. I get timed-out each time I try to connect. Boo.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

[Edit: ahhh! http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9970628-7.html]

Posted on Ajaxian today:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/ensure-on-demand-resources

Omar AL Zabir of Pageflakes.com has posted on ensure, his JavaScript library that provides a handy function ensure which allows you to load JavaScript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code.

Ensure ensures that relevant JavaScript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them.

Very nice indeed! Like all other Ajax developers, I’ve written my own custom solution to manage this – but this one looks quite elegant. Looking forward to tinkering with it on my next project.

I’ve just updated the Prototype release of Smart Lists, incorporating those features I added in the last Nitobi Hack Day.
View the new, spiffy example.

Read more about the script here.

The new features are:

• Optional second pagination (for bottom of page). For simplicity’s sake, the second pagination automatically appears if an element with a specific ID is defined in the page: [basename]-pagination2.
• “Total Results” option. CSS: [basename]-num-results
• Option to defined second dropdown for categorizing the data in two ways
• Option to reset Smart List from webpage

Enjoy!