Henry Rose

This past weekend I performed my first official act as an ordained reverend in the Universal Life Church. I performed a wedding ceremony for my two dear friends Chase and Rachel.

It was fun to go down to Oakland and see them, as well as meet their families. Afterward I got the opportunity to visit some other friends in San Francisco. Unfortunately due to snow in Seattle the trip home was a total nightmare, but well worth the happy event of the wedding.

So a couple weeks ago I got assigned to build a calendar for On The Boards, a local theater group. It was nothing too spectacular, just a php calendar with a little javascripting for rollovers and for filtering the genre of performances that would be displayed on the calendar.

I didn’t have much javascript experience but I was able to build the page to spec in a couple days with the knowledge I had.

However, it was then decided that the filters needed to reflect not one, but three genres for each performance. The color of the perfomance display was to change based on the highest priority genre selected in the checkboxes below. This was wasy out of my league but after a few more days it’s done. Woot! Not quite live yet because we’re waiting on the client to populate the database, but it’s nifty!

Check it out: OtB Calendar 

We discovered in interesting thing about the Appleized version of Firefox today.

Consider, if you will, the front page at ontheboards.org. Now if you’re viewing this page in any browser other than Camino it should appear like this:

However we were finding that when one person opened the page in Camino it appeared like this:

The kicker? When the other mac users in the office tried it in camino it displayed fine. So we tried all the standard tricks. We cleared the cache, even re-installed Camino.

Then we discovered that our one user had the “Block Web Advertising” box checked in his preferences:

Those images on the left side? They were stored in a directory called “ads” and apparently that was enough to tip off the Camino add blocker.