Mr. Speaker

Right, I’m determined to get a post in before the end of January - even if it exposes my deep lack of understanding of the Gregorian solar calendar (and indeed hints at my naked state of nescience concerning many other aspects of the basic mechanics of our world).

Here’s how the problem started: 52 x 7 = 364. Ok, no, wait. A step even further back…
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What’s your email address Sharkie?! Far out….

Send an email to mrspeaker@gmail.com with a subject line that begins with sms (and a space), and the remainder of the subject line will be delivered to my mobile phone as a text message. Go on… give it a try… Yep, it worked. Pretty nifty hey? Ok, Ok, just one message is fine, thanks. Jeeez.

Want this service for yourself? Read on!
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While flicking casually through various shoutcast TV streams today, I came to focus my attention on an old documentary about computers, or offices, or machines, or office workers, or computerised office workers, or something.

It was pretty good.

Anyhoo, I think it was called “The Secret Life of Offices”, or “The Secret Life of Computerised Office Workers” or something.

Being the ever-resourceful one, I thought I’d look it up on the local library catalogue to see if they held a copy.

I typed “secret life of” into the title search.

The returned result set detailed a shocking titling conspiracy, revealing once and for all: the secret life of The Secret Life Of…
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I’ve mentioned “spinner” on this page a bunch of times - I hope that’s what they are called… “little animated-gif indicator AJAX thingos” doesn’t sound quite right.

Anyway, just thought I’d mention this “issue” I’ve noticed quite a bit with people implementing spinners like so:

1. Load spinner image in HTML
2. When AJAX procedure completes, use javascript to hide the spinner.

This is hunky dory - but accounts poorly for us wise folk using the no-script extension.
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