Amazingly insightful easy, as usual, on coding horror about The Two Types of Programmers.

Version 1.1 of my my preferred javascript library, jQuery, was released today.  They have a great motto - "write less, do more" and as far as I can tell, they live up to it.  The release notes claim speed improvements of 10-20x for selectors over those in 1.0.4.  The release includes some interesting new features - such as passing functions for an attribute or a css property.  The flexibility of that is mind-boggling, but it could also le

Instead of letting him sleep all day and generally lounge about, your beagle could be hunting pythons in the everglades with Python Pete. This can only end in tragedy when Pete ends up as a hungry python's mid-afternoon snack.

For the past few months Lori Oberhofer, an Everglades wildlife technician, has been training her seven-month-old puppy to pick up the scent of the invasive Burmese pythons.

Over at Hit & Run, they're linking to the news that Golden State Fence, the company hired to build the fence on our border with Mexica, has pled guilty to hiring illegal immigrants.  The IHT has a slightly longer story.

I came back from a client meeting today to find 1 person looking for me, and then two people aiming me to let know the first person is also looking for me.  Sometimes I hate AIM.  Although one day I turned off IM thinking I'd get some work done, but then I got a call to find out where I was.

From Office Space:

If you're using Internet Explorer, or are forced to use it at work, you should seriously consider switching browsers until Microsoft deems it time to release a patch to the latest Internet Explorer security hole. This one is pretty serious as it does not require any action on the user's part beyond visiting a compromised website. Once you visit such a site, spyware and keyloggers can be installed on your machine to steal personal information.

Via Network-Centric Advocacy, I had a small "aha" moment, from a piece they linked to on AlterNet, Blogging While Black. To me, it resonates with why many communications folks within an organization don't know what to make of blogging. Being the Communications Director somewhere means your supposed to be crafting , filtering, and controlling the org's message and outreach. Blogs can be a threat because anyone beyond the anointed can have a voice.

The World Cup draw is tomorrow! The US barely missed being one of the eight seeded teams (but rival Mexico was seeded), chiefly because of the poor showing at the 1998 Cup. The FIFA rankings have a long memory, unfortunately. On the flip side, another strong run in Germany would go a long ways towards beeing seeded in 2010.

Went out with Greg, Sandy, Nyk, and Corey to hang out and have a beer or more this evening. Some notable quotes from the evening:

Sandy

Oh was I drunk? Sometimes I'm a virgin when I'm drunk

Nyk

Greg, why do you have to be so f*cking belligerent

Corey

Five or six long island ice teas sounds pretty good right about now.

Schnippy aka Greg

Should I be watching Family Guy?

Me

It's not named after the ship. It's named after the ship's class.

Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft's Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox.

He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user.