Christi: I’ve got [Facebook] friends in 6 countries. I bet you can’t say that.
Me: “I’ve got friends in 6 countries.” Gee, that wasn’t so hard.
Archive for July, 2009
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. Repost as “my life according to (band name)”
Pick your Artist:
Tori Amos
Are you a male or female:
Real Men
Describe yourself:
Father’s Son
How do you feel:
Bliss
Describe where you currently live:
Home on the Range
If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Jamaica Inn
Your favorite form of transportation:
Taxi Ride
Your best friend is:
Muhammad My Friend
You and your best friends are:
Strange
What’s the weather like:
Spring Haze
Favorite time of day:
I Don’t Like Mondays
If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Pretty Good Year
What is life to you:
Bouncing Off Clouds
Your last relationship:
Heart of Gold
I came across a problem in Internet Explorer (it wasn’t a problem with Firefox) when I was trying to compare two strings. To me, one string looked to have an extra space in the front. No problem, I’ll just call the jQuery trim function. Well, that didn’t work. So I used charCodeAt and found it was ASCII character 160. I looked up char code 160 and saw that it is a “Non-breaking space”. You would think that a “space” character would be trimmed. I looked at the jQuery code that does the trimming and the grep pattern uses \s. So, evidently you can’t use \s to catch the “Non-breaking space” in IE. I wonder why no one else has seen this. I wrote up a test page to illustrate this.
To create the non-breaking space, you can use String.fromCharCode(160) or the Unicode representation “\u00A0″. “ ” doesn’t seem to work when using regular expressions, although it behaves the same when printed.
| Browser | Evaluates character 160 as white-space |
|---|---|
| Firefox 3, 3.5 | Yes |
| Chrome 3.0 | Yes |
| Internet Explorer 7, 8 | No |
| Safari 3.2 | No |
| Opera 9 | Yes |
Here’s my entry for the The Daily WTF‘s Programming Praxis: Russian Peasant Multiplication:
function peasant1(a, b) {
var value = a & 1 ? b : 0;
while(a > 1) {
a >>= 1;
b <<= 1;
if (a & 1)
value += b;
}
return value;
}
function peasant2(a, b) {
var value = a & 1 ? b : 0;
if(a > 1)
value += peasant2(a >> 1, b << 1);
return value;
}
function peasant3(a, b) {
return a > 1 ? (a & 1 ? b : 0) + peasant3(a >> 1, b << 1) : a & 1 ? b : 0;
}
function peasant4(a, b) {
return a & 1 ? value = a > 1 ? value = b + peasant4(a >> 1, b << 1) : b : value = peasant4(a >> 1, b << 1);
}
test
Unicode character 2026 – “Horizontal Ellipsis”
In Windows: Alt-0133
In Java: \u2026
Example:
String ellipsis = "\u2026";
In HTML: … or … or …
Example:
… or … or …
In Javascript: \u2026
Example:
var ellipsis = "\u2026";
alert(ellipsis);
Ricola log: \u2026
Example:
Ricola.log.debug("\u2026")
will output 11:31:08 DEBUG - …
Ricola showPleaseWait: any of the HTML entities: … or … or …
Example:
Ricola.page.showPleaseWait("Creating train documents…");
This is the school my kids will eventually go to: http://www.ops.org/district/CENTRALOFFICES/BusinessServices/BuildingsandGrounds/SchoolhousePlanning/SaddlebrookJointFacility/tabid/957/Default.aspx
Our neighborhood had our first “annual” Fourth of July parade on Saturday. There was a much larger turnout than I expected. People lined their folding chairs along the route, which consisted of approximated 4 blocks. (It was down 151st street.) Crystal and Chris wore tiaras while Robb drove them in his convertible. That was funny. The kids rode in Rick’s trailer. The homeowners association gave out ribbons for the best decorations. People threw candy along the route even! Good times…
The weather last night was fabulous! I loved it! And the moon was so full and clear. It inspired me:
The moon is bright
On this beautiful Fouth night