School is back in session and so its time for a little show and tell. I found this petrified Alien on the Outer Banks while walking the beach at low tide early one morning in late June. My Alien friend is a well worn fulgurite; a rock made when lightning energizes the beach sand.
I’ve been tying my shoelaces incorrectly for over 40 years. Conservatively that is over 50,000 incorrectly tied knots. Now I know why my shoelaces come undone. I’ve lived with this minor annoyance for a long time and I’m not sure I’m willing to give it up just yet. But thanks Ian for making Ian’s Shoelace Site.
I’ve started playing with Ruby on Rails. For simple CRUD interfaces, I’ve found it is very fast and easy. Here is a demo of multiple related selection boxes using Ajax. In the screen shot, Zip Code has been constrained by the previous selections for State, County, and Post Office. It works like you would expect, selecting a State constrains selections for County, Post Office, Zip Code, and selecting a County constrains Post Office, etc. I used Richard White’s excellent Ajax Scaffold for this demo. The data is from the 2000 Census.
Well there are four hatchlings and this one is the hungry one!
