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How evil the RIAA is

On a more serious note, here’s a an audio sample of Ray Beckerman talking about the RIAA law suits. DefectiveByDesign.org, as it’s name implies is also against DRM 1 Digital Rights Management itself, on grounds that I will not discuss in this post. But the bigger issue of the RIAA suing innocent people is what’s being discussed. You can skip the introduction by Peter Brown and go directly to what Mr. Beckerman is saying (at about a minute and 47 seconds into the clip)

In case you need it, the transcript’s available here. If you live in the United States, please spread the word. Hell, even if you aren’t, spread it anyways. Digital copyright laws are bound to affect us one way or the other no matter where we live. Read More

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Jack Black is Computerman!

Ever wonder how Jack Black would be like in a low budget, awful (yet hilarious) home-made(ish) video? It even has its own theme song which incidentally, if you listen closely – he hums in one part of the movie School of Rock

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Instant AJAX on your site

I went back to the music section, and redid the AJAX code I used. I remembered the Prototype library (prototype.js) I was using for the lightbox had its own AJAX object class – which was much more comprehensive than my implementation (error handling, browser support, etc).

I thought that since I was already using the framework anyways, might as well redo my functions altogether to utilize it. While the documentation had example codes, like any other site, I noticed that usually they always include a fixed “target” in the function. Meaning if you have a certain AJAX operation you wish to perform, the function usually took in the URL which you specify, but plugs it into a set target. While this is easily fixed, I was simply baffled as to why they don’t make it a standard to “assume” people would want at least to specify both the url and target as a default.

So I came up with code which I dubbed “InstA-JAX” to do just that. I’m sharing it here since I figured that anyone I know who is remotely interested in implementing rudimentary AJAX functionality might find it very useful as it doesn’t require them to “think” anymore hehehehe. – just plug it in, markup your HTML the proper way and you should be good to go.

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Beefing up the comment form

I added two things on the comment form:

  1. Live comment preview – shows immediate feedback on how your comment would look like after posting (which is why I took out the “preview” button)
  2. Security captcha – anti-spambot mechanism. I know it’s not foolproof, but it does the job most of the time