buddhism
Events on Mother's Day
We organised our bi-monthly day for parents for yesterday at the Buddhist Centre, without realising at the time that it was mother's day. Oh well, we'll get the kids to make something for their mums, I thought. Previously, when we have had maybe 15 parents with their children. This time, other than the five team members, there was one other parent. We all had a pleasant time, but it would have been nice to have had a few more folks there. I think the moral is not to run parents events on Mother's Day.
A Little Bit of Less
I just, accidentally, typed in:
less foo.jar
Then paniked, because it was going to fill my screen with garbage, only to be pleasantly surprised. Somehow, not only can my version of less (from Ubuntu Hoary) automatically ungzip files before displaying, it also identifies archives and lists their contents.
A small detail, but neat all the same.
XMLHTTPRequest restrictions
Ajax sites often make use of the XMLHttpRequest component to access the backend server. This works really well when you're using it to contact your own server, i.e. the server the page was originally served from.
However, what if you want to include, ajax style, a snippet of content on a client's site, without them having to proxy your content to the client via their own server? With XMLHttpRequest, you can't. Sorry.
Well, I found a curious hack. The tag can be used to download javascript, and can download it from anywhere, i.e. no security restrictions on it.
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