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I recently started using the Venkman JavaScript Debugger for Firefox (and other Mozilla based browsers), named after Peter Venkman from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters.
Well having used JavaScript alert boxes and such like for debugging for years, I have to say this thing is absolutely brilliant.
Especially the ability to watch variable values change as the code executes. Extremely useful for tracking down those niggling coding logic errors—the ones that execute fine but just don’t work!
In a moment of philosophical pondering, I’ve come to the conclusion there are two types of people in the world, and the difference can be summed up as this: those that drive around in their car with the air-conditioning on and the windows up, and those who have the windows down, regardless of whether they have air-con.
I’m the latter, I can’t stand being in a car with the windows up—fresh air is an absolute necessity. Of course, if it’s minus 30 out, then the windows stay firmly up, lol.
The image to the right was Google Images first result for “Dichotomy”, it’s from The American Bear Association, a non-profit organization based in Minnesota promoting the well-being of the black bear and other natural resources. Pay them a visit and make a donation if you can; looks like a worthwhile cause 
While trying my very best to avoid doing any actual work this morning, I came across this site… hehe, amusing
I am Mario.
"I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren’t for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can’t stay out of trouble."
If you’ve ever needed to enter international characters like the é in café, then you’ve probably like me either used the Character Map utility or memorized the letter’s Alt + numeric keypad number combination.
The problem is this is a real pain if you have to type these letters more than once in a blue moon, especially if you have a laptop without a numeric keypad!
My iPod once again went flat on the way to work today; damn over optimistic battery gauge. However, it appears the Japanese have invented a solution to my musically challenged commute…
Japan has already dabbled here and there with road surfaces that keep drivers awake by using appropriately-placed troughs to play rhythms through your tires.
Now the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has gone a step further, with grooved sections of road that boom a melody up through your car.
The grooves are a few millimetres deep and 6-12 mm wide; unsurprisingly, the closer they’re grouped together the higher the pitch of the note produced. They’re planning to use different melodies for different areas, picking songs that have some association to the locale.
I have to say, the coolest thing from the 80′s by far, was the arcade game “Time Bandit” for the Sanyo. Back in the days when 3-bit colour was high-tech, and floppy disks where still actually floppy & took 50 minutes to format
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It is sacrilege to say that there is such a thing as optical fraud.
—Goethe
