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I have abandoned the blog for a while... Due to many legitimate reasons, of course, being out of job (but not work, that's good), for one.
Short recollection of events, which took place during last couple of weeks:
I have completed a small, but reasonably priced project, working with a PHP programmer I have never seen before (we spoke on the phone once or twice).
I have almost finished a client-side JavaScript application for a small NYC production of Valiant; the application is designed to provide "typographic assistance" for the main character during stage performance ("Sally" doesn't speak, she types on her laptop, and the monitor contents are projected on screen - an unusual concept and a lot to type... so, I have come up with a script, which types hard-coded text string letter by letter into the page's HTML on each keystroke the actress makes - no misspeling or missing punctuation...). Being annoyed by the warning sound, which IE|Win makes on every keystroke, if the focus is not on an element, which is supposed to receive text input, decided to provide a dummy input field to take whatever the user types, thus eliminating the sound. Only worked, while the page was short, then I ran into a problem: the browsers try to scrol the document to display the element in focus, and all of them do such thing in a different way. What a surprize. IE|Win will scroll toward an input field, which receives focus, but just enough to display it; Firefox|Mac behaves the same way. Safari tries to display the field as close to the middle of the window, as it can, and IE|Mac puts the field at the top of the viewport, which would be ideal, if not for the fact, that it is painfully slow, which pretty much makes the whole thing useless. Ended up dismissing the idea of using element.focus() to automatically scroll to the desired location, and instructed the actress to turn off the sound. Oh, the everlasting joy of web design.
On the other front of my recent activities: I've discovered a new weekly jam session, where the traditional blues repertoire often diluted (or should I say "spiced up"?) with a hearty amount of funk, and even jazz. The place is called House of Swing, the jam is there every Thursday, hosted by Reid Project; 11:30 pm - 1:00 am or so.
My musical exersizes, posted at MacJams.com, seem to hold up rather well, to my surprize. I am on the first page of the "Jazz" genre if listed by "Ratings".
So far, so good.

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