Home • About • Contact
Login • Page Content • Site Map

Search
GH.com   GH.com dir
Wikipedia   Web

Posts matching the query string: OrderBy=PostForDate&Desc=Desc&Dtm1=20080301&Dtm2=20080401.

My ratings (R) are from 1 to 9. My Dates are also permalinks. Click on the column headers to sort Jots. Feel free to use the address bar like a command line interface by setting the optional query string parameters: Dtm1 (10, 20, 30, YYYYMMDDhhmmss), Dtm2 (YYYYMMDDhhmmss), IsJot (Jot or Not), Tag (zero+ times), NotTag (zero+ times), OrderBy (PostForDate, PostTitle, PostLink, PostText, PostSource, PostRating, PostSize) & Desc(Desc), and Limit(integer).

1. Squirrel v Daisy Powerline 901 air rifle TAGS: Family. Fauna. Guns. Home. Kids. MARTIAL. My Stuff.
2. Chicago-sized chunk of ice has fallen TAGS: Chicago. Geology. Google. Images. Nature. News. Photography. Space. Sustainability. TECH.
3. Web Forms TAGS: ASP. Cyber Tech. Databases. HTML. JavaScript. My Stuff. Programming. Security. Software. SQL. TECH.
4. JavaScript StripTags, not PHP strip_tags TAGS: Cyber Tech. JavaScript. My Stuff. Open Source. PHP. Programming. TECH.
5. Battlestar Galactica Last supper TAGS: Battlestar Galactica. Chill. Cool. Images. Live Action. Science Fiction. TV.

Date	Text	Link	Source	Tags	Note
20080330 180719 Z				Activity, Family, My Stuff, Relations	My wife and I have been thinking of socializing with other folks besides our usual circle of friends. We initially looked at stuff like couplets.com and couplesworldwide.com, but I think the idea seemed too much like a singles thingy so we let it slide. Now we're trying out meetup.com which is for meeting people in particular localities for almost any reason you can think of. While online social networking is "interesting", it's very virtual and nothing beats meeting people face-to-face.
20080330 174948 Z				Funny, Live Action, TV	I was introduced to youtube videos of Eddie Izzard earlier last year at WMAW. Now that more people are seeing him on The Riches [W], I feel compelled to make a quick note here on his awesomeness. "Cake or death!"
20080330 001516 Z				Cyber Life, My Stuff, News, Sustainability	For Earth Hour I'm turning the lights off for a bit here at georgehernandez.com.
20080328 160609 Z	Adobe Photoshop Express	https://www.photoshop.com/express/	www.technolo … /20478/?nlid=970	Adobe, Cyber Life, Cyber Tech, Free Gratis, Images, Photography, Photos, TECH	It's about time Adobe got into the online photo game (storing, editing, printing, collective interactivity). Everybody likes their own stuff but there is still the issue of parsing everybody else's stuff.
20080326 012742 Z	Rate My Drawings	http://www.ratemydrawings.com/		Activity, Art, Beauty, Cool, Cyber Life, Design, Flash, Free Gratis, How To, Images, Inspiring	An online drawing community where you get to see artwork (as well as hi-speed replays of their creation), plus competitions, chats, and tutorials on drawing.
20080326 010559 Z	Every South Park Ever Online for Free (Legally!)	gizmodo.com/ … for-free-legally	digg.com/com … e_Legally?OTC-ig	Animation, Chill, Cool, Crude, Cyber Life, Funny, NSFW, TV, Videos	Legally putting every episode of South Park online at southparkstudios.com can only help increase their sales! Awesome goodness! O and yes, the race to do for TV/video what iPod did for music is on! We're all ready for Web 3.0!
20080319 145748 Z				Books, News, Obituaries, Reading, Science	Arthur C. Clarke [W] died today. A futurist (geostationary orbit) and a science fiction writer (2001: A Space Odyssey). A toast science and imagination.
20080314 211333 Z	Keith Olbermann: Special Comment on Hillary Clinton	video.google … 7389760145208186	Julia	Live Action, News, Politics, TV, USA, Videos	Hillary Clinton's campaign is sinking fast because she's shooting herself in the foot. If she can't do something decisive in a fast and punctuated manner, she's sunk. Win or lose, she has to get back to orange and positive.
20080312 145531 Z	Martial arts take a Western turn	www.usatoday … rts_N.htm?csp=34	Scott	Arms, Cool, Live Action, MARTIAL, News, Photos, Swords, Text, Videos, Western Martial Arts	Whoot! A high quality story and video on the Western Martial Arts in a major newspaper and website, plus a mention of the Chicago Swordplay Guild (CSG) [chicagoswordplayguild.com]. Who could ask for anything more? Nice to see a lot of familiar instructors in there too.
20080307 152241 Z	Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit	www.microsof … ness/Install.htm	www.technolo … /20383/?nlid=921	Browser, Cool, Cyber Life, Links, Microsoft, News, Standards, TECH	Whoot! IE 8 beta 1 is here. The buzz lately is that IE 8 will support the standards over doing it the IE way. This should help make websites more consistent across browsers and platforms. Now where is that Firefox 3?
20080304 155445 Z	Amnesty International: Bullet	educatedeart … ideo.php?id=3667		Ad, Beauty, Chill, Cool, Politics, Videos, Violence, World	Even if you don't like AI, the video has a cool, video-game like production quality.
20080303 170755 Z	Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos	blog.wired.c … -10-amazing.html		Chemistry, Cool, Live Action, Science, TECH, Videos	Not surprising that a bunch of them are pyro-oriented.

We've had problems with squirrels in our attic for months now. Julia in particular has been awakened at night with their noise and she's been concerned about damage to our house. We didn't want to use poison because we don't want dead squirrels stinking up in some unreachable corner of our attic. We had guys come out with traps last fall: They caught one but they came back. In 2008-02 we bought our own trap and we managed to catch one ourselves. We hadn't considered the issue of disposal. Julia didn't want to release them far away (in case they might come back). I offered to stab them with a sword but Julia thought that was too crude. So we settled on shooting him with an air rifle.

Because of Chicago gun lawys, it's annoying to order any sort of gun or gun related items online. So Julia called around for a K-mart that sold them and she went out and got one. She ended up getting the Powerline 901 air rifle by Daisy. It's a multi-pump air rifle that shoots either BBs or pellets at up to 230 m/s = 750 fps. It's a decent model and I think my friend Nikos has the exact same thing.

I tried a few shots at the squirrel from a 2 m = 2 y, but either I'm a terrible shot or the squirrel was one tough little guy. I had to put the gun pretty much point blank above its head: One shot did the trick. The wife and kids watched through the window while I handled the whole thing (including the mildly smelly and bloody clean up). The kids were fascinated before hand but once the deed was done they stated that they would rather not participate next time. A rather dismal little affair all around, but it had to be done.

The rifle is in its box in the closet. I intend to have the kids learn gun safety and marksmanship with a safe backstop once the weather clears up. The squirrels are back. The war goes on.

A city-size chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf has actively and visibly collapsed in just a few days.

• By 02-28, a piece of the shelf 100 sq. Km = 39 sq. miles broke off.
• By 03-08, an additional 570 sq. Km = 102 sq. miles is visibly distenegrating.
• Roughly another 8000 sq. Km = 3000 sq. miles is expected to distengrate as well.

For reference, I took a screenshot of Google Maps of the Wilkins Shelf (70°15'S, 73°W) and of Chicago on the same scale:

For reference, Chicago is 606 sq. Km = 237 sq. miles, so roughly a Chicago-sized chunk of ice has fallen into the ocean. All together an area around the size of Rhode Island (4002 sq. Km = 1545 sq. miles) is expected to fall in.

It took me a few days but I re-did my pages on form-handling. I used to have it in my ASP section but really it's a mix of ASP, HTML, JavaScript, security, and databases, so I moved it to my Web section. I'm getting a kick these days of using JavaScript for both client-side and server-side coding. Thanks to all the work I've been doing with the Ext JS [extjs.com] library, I now love passing JSON objects as a parameter for functions. I also spent a few days with Halock [halock.com] reviewing security, so I jotted down some notes and implemented some stuff. It includes my dual-validation library for both client-side and server-side that works in a very similar way on both ends.

All I wanted was a little JavaScript function that could strip tags from HTML. I'm sure someone else must have done it before. But no! Instead all I found on the Web were a bunch of PHP programmers bragging about their little strip_tags($str [, $allowable_tags]) function [http://us3.php.net/strip_tags]. Almost as bad were all the JavaScript programmers doing a weak implementation of strip_tags(), but without the allowable_tags parameter.

So I decided to make a JavaScript version of the PHP strip_tags function. I could've made my function do the exact same thing, with the same name and parameters, but I went a step further and made a few custom tweaks:

• I took out automatic comment removal and made that a separate function.
• I added an IsAllowed parameter. If true, then any specfied tags are allowed (just like in PHP). If false, then only specified tags are removed.

Here's the code for StripTags(str [, IsAllowed [, SpecifiedTags]]]), my variation of the PHP strip_tags, as well as the comment stripper.

//CREATOR: http://www.georgehernandez.com
function StripTags(strMod){
    if(arguments.length<3) strMod=strMod.replace(/<\/?(?!\!)[^>]*>/gi, '');
    else{
        var IsAllowed=arguments[1];
        var Specified=eval("["+arguments[2]+"]");
        if(IsAllowed){
            var strRegExp='</?(?!(' + Specified.join('|') + '))\b[^>]*>';
            strMod=strMod.replace(new RegExp(strRegExp, 'gi'), '');
        }else{
            var strRegExp='</?(' + Specified.join('|') + ')\b[^>]*>';
            strMod=strMod.replace(new RegExp(strRegExp, 'gi'), '');
        }
    }
    return strMod;
}
function StripCommentSGML(strMod){
    //Thanks to: http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/21761
    strMod=strMod.replace(/<!(?:--[sS]*?--s*)?>s*/g,''); //double dashes escaped cuz of SGML comment
    return strMod;
}

If you want to see the code in action, then check out my little Parse Text form where I implement it and a few other things. BTW: Yes, this code can be used on the server-side with ASP.

Supposedly the new season starts 2008-04-04, but in the mean time:

Page Modified: (Hand noted: 2007-07-19 21:41:10Z) (Auto noted: 2010-02-18 19:45:32Z)