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March 11th, 2002. Javascript errors. Always. Continuously. For weeks and weeks. No sign of abatement.

March 14th, 2002 No Javascript errors. Fixed. Done. Old news.

Coincidence? We may never know.

Dougal is looking for Netscape 4.x Sucks articles.

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Dear FM100.2;

Why can’t I hear your radio station in full hi-fidelity stereo on my monaural transistor radio? It works fine when I use my home stereo system. Why do you design your radio station to only support certain radios? My AM radio in my car doesn’t even get your station. You could at least design it to degrade gracefully.

Signed Joe User

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Memo from Marketing to Tech Staff:

Guys, come on, stop being prima donnas and give our customers what they need. Our stats show us that a full 8% of our audience tries to tune us in on AM radios. I don’t care how, you have to provide them with the SAME experience as other users. Everyone must have exactly the same experience or you’ll ruin our branding initiative.

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v 1.1 Release Notes:

– reduced audio to 16khzmono to unify experience across platforms
– put hooks in to accomodate split AM/FM transmission in future
– scrapped plans for digital station id – not cross-radio compatible.

The TechnoMagician pointed me to cross-browser.com, where Mike Foster has a killer dhtml api happening. Very nice indeed.

What the freakin goddam hell is up with the twats at siliconvalley.com who after *at least* a goddam month STILL haven’t got Dan Gillmor’s pages coming up without this error:

I saw it the FIRST DAY. I opened my debugger and found the problem with the function initMenus() apparently not being defined before it is called.

I could have told them right away, told them EXACTLY what the problem was (as could anybody with just a smidgen of javascript experience), but NOOOOO, I figured I’d cut them some slack and let them get their kinks figured out. Well, it ain’t happenin’.

As Ace Ventura would say: “Loo-Hoo…Ze-Herrs!!!” Tech credibility down the shitter.

Oh yeah, send me a comment, and when I’ve decided to stop sitting on the fence and take a definite side on this issue, I’ll notify you right away.

After enjoying free blog hosting at Manilasites for a year, I’ve decided to bring my blog inhouse. Nothing at all wrong with Manila or Manilasites, I just want to have complete control over the storage and lifetime of my content.

I’m going to leave my Manilasite in place for historical reference (there are quite a few other blogs and google entries pointing to it) and refer people to my new blog here at http://brentashley.blogchat.com.

You’ll notice, though, that I’ve carried my archives forward too.

Francois-Georges Cloutier sent me an email about my JSRS browser rpc library. He pointed me a site he did last year using some similar RPC stuff. Wow. This Parillusion site is some of the keenest DHTML UI I’ve yet to see. IE4+ only, but way, way cool.

Hey! Did I not just say it was way, way cool?!? What the heck are you doing down here reading this paragraph? Fer pity’s sake, click the dang link with all speed, get in there, maximize, minimize, explore, scroll, play about. You’ll thank yourself.

Back to making money, feeding the family. Critical fixes being shoved into zip, no updates or feature bloat happening. I’ve got some ideas of where i’ll be going with this, but for the moment it’s back to surviving the dotcom depression without greeting the bailiff at the door. I’ll be online fairly regularly to answer any questions, though.

Roland says:

Brent has updated his Manila site to put the BlogChat window at the top. Cool! Please share the code, Brent!

Here you go, Roland:

<iframe src="http://www.yoursite.xxx/blogchat/anybodyhome.php"
height="225" width="525">
</iframe>