A few notes

Ugh. Now I’m remembering why I hated Javascript so much in the first place. Can’t I just write CSS and server-side code all day instead?

In personal tech news, I ordered a new phone. It’s an LG CU500. It has a rotating camera lens, which will be good for my daily self portraits. I’m really looking forward to having a camera phone. Also, I might even Twitter from it! *gasp* Craziness, I know. I actually am becoming quite fond of Twitter. Guess I’d better check to make sure I have enough text message capacity on my phone plan… never thought I’d be one of the people concerned with that kind of thing!

Anyway, it’ll be nice but also weird to have a “new” gadget (I used quotation marks because I ordered a refurbished one). Every piece of hardware I own is at least 3 years old.

I’ve also added a few Republicans to my Twitter friends. What am I doing with my life. It’s like I don’t even know me anymore.

Moving along. I was planning to write another post about the whole “online bullying” thing and how it relates to IRL bullying/abuse/disenfranchisement, but what with all the links, quotes, and such I’ve posted over the past few days, and Take Back the Blog! coming up, I think I’ll save it for the 28th instead.

Okay, back to work and Javascript hell. (No hyperbole here, not at all!)

More pimping

In case you didn’t know, I’ve been blogging hither and thither at CSS Insider and The Javascript Weblog. “But Amber,” you ask, “how do you have time for all this blogging?” Well, I actually don’t; I just forego sleep in favor of blogging. Anyway, check ‘em out, and feel free to rip my posts to shreds in the comments.

Obscure Reference of the Day, Geekified

Sniffing user agents for Mac IE and writing conditional Javascript with 5 gajillion methods make Amber something something…

Javascript

Anyone know of a way to control when certain page elements load? I really like having that little mood thingy in my sidebar, but it’s controlled by an external Javascript file, and lately I’ve noticed it’s been loading quite slowly, and thus slows down the rest of my sidebar from loading. Any ideas? I hate am impatient with Javascript, but I like my mood thingy, dammit. Maybe I could put it in an iframe — even though I’m kind of morally opposed to iframes.

I’ve been writing Javascript all day at work today. It is so not fun. I heart server-side scripting.

Speaking of which: maybe over Thanksgiving break I’ll figure out how to fix those weird ASB bugs that have crept up. We’ll see. I would really like to get all that taken care of, do another release, and take a break from working on it for a while.

It’s a dismal, foggy, rainy day, and I feel kind of depressed. Also I appear to be developing a “Chick-fil-a belly.”

I’m about to get more Javascript experience than I ever wanted. For work, I have to create a detailed quiz that will calculate someone’s risk of heart disease based on a number of inputs (total cholesterol, age, etc). I know the learning experience will be good, but Javascript irritates the hell out of me. :-P

Also: I hate the phrase “learning experience.” Some other phrases I hate: “state of the art”, “hands-on”, “as it were”, “if you will”, “per se.”