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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHi there, caught your blog via Eric Case's shared Reader stuff. Cool. Anywho, I think the crash recording/reporting parts of FF have changed significantly since this post went out - in FF 3.x you can type "about:crashes" into the browser for all submitted crash reports. Or you can go to a special place and...do something. I don't actually have any files there because FF always crashes by locking up on me these days, rather than actually crashing. (On the mac this is /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/ ).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGreat idea, makes perfect sense to use.
Wishing as always that the W3C or WHATWG or, hell, Microsoft would include this kind of behavior in an intelligent column management system on the HTML side, so that we wouldn't have to hack the scrollbars with JS.
As it stands, the navigation column tends to lag and flicker quite unpleasantly with Firefox on my crummy G5; not sure if it can be optimized. For some reason (I didn't look deeply at the source code) it's only the nav bar, not the main contents.
Wonder if you could optimize the performance by just switching divs from position:absolute to position:fixed to stop them scrolling, rather than changing their pixel position with every scroll? Just throwing it out there, not sure how well it could work.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThat's really great. It makes we wonder whether the horizontal scroll could be engaged in the same way, towards good ends.
Horizontal scroll is generally less useful for a number of reasons, but it could be interesting especially for people who already have joystick type scroll wheels (left-right jogging).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHey, Andy! Thanks.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI love it. Worked perfectly for me, and wasn't confusing at all.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweeti like this.
next year can we have a field for email addresses so that it automatically sends to them?
found you through the merlin show, btw
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThe guys at Drop.io call your 'Shibboleth' model 'simple sharing'
http://drop.io/blog/asset/span-style-font-si
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetUnfortunately, he bestowed the same honor to 'WALL STREET'.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetOMG! The Linda story is hilarious.... If only I knew about this during the campaign I could have had so much fun commenting. Miss you much!!!! Ella
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThank you so much for doing what you're doing and sharing the stories about it.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGrinning from California, jealous of (and thankful for) what you're doing. Keep up the great work, thanks for sharing these vignettes!
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetHow did you set that up? I've tried contacting Obama headquarters to look for volunteer opportunities but so far they haven't gotten back. Did you call the campaign office directly?
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetUnfortunately, the same wikipedia article says, "The benefit of immunity from prosecution for being drunk and incapable has long since disappeared, if indeed it ever existed."
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAwesome! I'm in AZ and doing the same. Good luck.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweetcongrats chris...make us proud
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThank you for posting this. I will be forwarding it on to help fight the spin machine.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetYou do know two things. You know that the Republican administration of the past 8 years put these exec power abuses in place. And you know that neither party have agreed to dump them. That said, I'd vote for the party that didn't put them in, and give them a shot at fixing things.
You also know that the McCain/Palin ticket does not have the intellectual firepower to deal with the global and/or financial crisis at hand. So, if we're not electing the actual people who are going to lead (again), isn't that bloomin' dangerous? At least Obama insists on having people from all sides of an issue, and political party, at the table advising him. It's far from perfect, but its a start.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThanks for posting this. It's amazing how low our threshold for accepting 'facts' has become.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweetyou left out: Obama is NOT Muslim.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetFurthering what I was trying to say:
Antonin Scalia has experience and academic credentials; so does Justice Stevens. David Addington has eight years of experience, while Andrew Bacevich has none in the executive branch.
What and how you think, not experience or education per se, are what matters.
The experience issue - this was an pseudo issue concocted by the Republicans before Palin got on the ticket. It works because we're a country that in many ways has been politically neutered. For many citizens, "personality" and "experience" seem to trump matters such as rule of law and economic, foreign, and environmental policies.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThanks Amy, that's a good point. I'll make that change.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI have to make one slightly picky correction. One of Obama's listed hobbies is social work. Technically, one has to be a licensed social worker in order to actually practice social work (I should know because I am one) and as far as I know, Obama's never been licensed. Maybe community service would be a better term (?).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetThis is a great post! I've been doing a similar comparison between McCain and Obama in their personal achievements that advance our society. Well, once again, there's no comparison, McCain was in the military then became a lawmaker, that's it. He pretty much voted along the GOP party lines all that time.
On the other hand, Obama has taken so much initiative helping people, helping non-profits, pushing legislation, etc...
The whole debate about how Obama lacks McCain's experience is heavily biased because what matters is not how old you are but how much you did to make America a better place.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI love this post--I love the rigorous thinking. But is the problem that we undervalue academic achievement--or that our political discourse is actually insufficiently political?
Looking backwards through history, I don't see a connection between presidential or prime ministerial achievement, and prior years of scholarship and experience.
Nor do I see a consistent connection between political actions, and academic achievement/prior experience.
John Yoo, the legal theorist behind the Bush torture laws, is a professor of law at Berkeley; Glenn Greenwald is a graduate of George Washington University and NYU law, but not a professor and sans PhD.
Milton Feldman was a brilliant economist; so is Paul Krugman.
Paul Wolfowitz had decades of foreign policy experience and headed up an academic department at Johns Hopkins; Chris Wetherall is a bright young ex-Googler, with an scientific-method bent to his thinking, and zero big time creditials in foreign policy or the study of it.
I'd rather Chris running American foreign policy than Paul!
Well, this last comment blurs what I want to say. Which is: you can't take the politics out of politics.
The essential difference between Obama and Palin lies in their different understandings of the American idea and in their different takes on its future possibilities.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweetnice comparasion. Thanks for sharing.
