Got my new toy working

Last weekend I got my new camera, a Sony DSC-S700. And today, I just got my memory card for it, a 2 GB monstrosity. It will let me take 2,300(!) pictures at 2 Megapixels.

So, anyone want to pose for me? :-P

Dreamhost horrors

[baachus]$ uptime
09:08:41 up 20:29, 3 users, load average: 424.24, 258.30, 176.14

I know that Baachus (aka Dionysus) is the Roman god of wine and inebriation, but I think this is taking that role a little too seriously!

I found some cheap webhosting

A co-worker pointed me to NoUptime.com. These guys look like they're all kinds of awesome. Here's a list of their plans:



And their motto is uh, interesting: "We'll Never Go Down On You.. (Unless You Pay Us)"

Best practices in Javascript

Here's a little talk from the gentleman who created the jQuery javascript library. He talks about considerations in designing an API and gets into some of the stuff that jQuery went through as it evolved.

Watch on YouTube

It's about an hour long, and worth a look. He has pretty good Powerpoint slides, and I just skipped through some of the talking to get to those. :-)