I have cinematic dreams that I watch as a little sleeping movie critic. I'm sure you're familiar with this weird state of consciousness. You know you're asleep and dreaming; the dream is unfolding around you, but part of your mind, the part that knows you're dreaming, is aware and watching. It's busy taking notes, making snide … Continue reading My Dream of Liberty Encased
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Argentina or Australia
We're planning a major trip for the fourth quarter of 2013. It's been over a decade since my wife and I last sojourned beyond North America so this year we're going to spend a few dollars, before the Obama economy reduces them to useless paper, and see more of the world. Two countries have long … Continue reading Argentina or Australia
2012 Blog Robot Review
The WordPress.com robots gave us an amusing end of year blog attaboy. Here's an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 11,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 18 years to get that … Continue reading 2012 Blog Robot Review
Books to Ignore
My superpower is indifference. Indifference is the soporific that lets my inner beast nap in peace. Without it I would have long since turned into a murdering psychopath, but I remain calm, rational, nearly ethereal, as I proudly ignore the unhinged idiocy of my fellow human beings. I prize my detachment, my don't-give-a-shit-ness, my lordly … Continue reading Books to Ignore
Let’s Trade Constitutional Amendments
I'm a big fan of stark choices. Stark choices push trivialities aside, expose underlying problems and bring hidden motivations to light. There is nothing more satisfying than watching well nursed notions self-destruct when reduced to stark choices. Here's a stark choice our corrupt ruling class will never put on ballots, or discuss, or dare mention. … Continue reading Let’s Trade Constitutional Amendments
Apocalypse Never or I Told You So Day
Let's begin with an apology to the Mayan's. There's not a whit of verified historical evidence that the ancient Mayans predicted the end of the world or that they were any more upset about cycles in their calendars than we are in ours. Modern Mayans repeatedly pointed this out but arguing with new age morons, … Continue reading Apocalypse Never or I Told You So Day
King Hobbit Kong
The pre-Hobbit hum was not harmonious. It started with the interminable legal battle over who would direct the Hobbit and how to split any spoils. After Peter Jackson's cinematic Lord of the Rings triumph people assumed he would be The Hobbit guy but an envious and embittered clique of Tolkien's heirs felt the weren't getting … Continue reading King Hobbit Kong
More about JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
I have resolved my DHTMLX standard edition row data extraction problem. The standard edition does not serialize grids or track user cell changes. You have to pay for such luxuries. Because I'm a foul software Grinch and this is just an exploratory hack I had to roll my own. I am posting the relevant JavaScript … Continue reading More about JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
Grids are the most important GUI user object. It's hard to think of a user-friendly data munching application that doesn't have a grid beating at its heart. Consequently, any serious GUI interface contender must support grids. My previous post showed how to use MathJax with JHS. MathJax is an impressive and important JavaScript library; it … Continue reading JHS with the DHTMLX Grid
JHS meets MathJax
With the release of J 7.01 Jsoftware "deprecated" COM. J 6.02 can run as a COM automation server but J 7.01 cannot.3 Throwing COM under the bus is hardly radical. Microsoft, COM's creator, has been holding COM's head underwater for years. Many .Net programmers cringe when they hear the word "COM" and the greater nonwindows1 … Continue reading JHS meets MathJax
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 