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It’s hard to believe that Claire is now 256 days old, or just over 0.701 years! It has an oddly familiar way of feeling simultaneously like both an eternity and an eyeblink. We’re getting more sleep than in the zombie days of October and January/February, which is a definite plus, although we seem to have just hit one of the “magic” weeks where all the kid wants to do is be fussy. In spite of her stormy disposition this week, she continues to astound and amaze us every day. Just 109 days until cake and candles!

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• Loading gif generator
  Ajaxy loading spinner generator thing. Handy.
  (tags: loading icons graphics webdesign generator)

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• Big In Japan
  Classic DC characters given the vintage manga treatment… Too cool.
  (tags: comics Batman dc superman manga justiceleague superheroes)
• The E.T. Collection
  Adorable drawings of E.T. crossovers with classic cartoon and sci-fi characters.
  (tags: art comics humor E.T.)

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• AOP aspect of JavaScript with Dojo
  Awesome post on using dojox.lang.aspect (coming in Dojo 1.2).
  (tags: dojo javascript programming aspect aop)

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• Processing.js
  The Processing visualization language comes to Javascript (and stops along the way to blow my mind).
  (tags: javascript programming visualization graphics processing canvas)
• Superhero Decadence series by Donald Soffritti
  What happens to comic book characters when they get old? Too funny.
  (tags: comics art humor)

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• Baby Clothing: Junk Food Ts
  I will probably be going poor on these… (Imagining my daughter in black Beatles T and little pink skirt… awww.)
  (tags: clothing baby t-shirt starwars beatles indianajones snoopy strawberryshortcake superman)

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• Python with a modular IDE (Vim)
  Awesome tips for attaining vim + Python nirvana.
  (tags: vim python programming tutorial)
• The Cost of Living on the Edge
  An intriguing graph of the cost and market penetration over time of consumer electronics tech–PCs, color TVs, CD players, etc.
  (tags: image graph technology)
• How to find images on the internet
  Massive collection of image archive links, potentially quite useful.
  (tags: images search reference photos)

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• Age and Sleep Patterns: 8 - 15 months
  For (impending) future reference…
  (tags: sleep parenting nap children)

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Once upon a time, I upgraded to Leopard on my Mac Pro, and, though I did not mention it at the time, something in upgrade land totally pissed off my Brother 5070N laser printer.

I’d bought the printer in the first place because it was one of the first to support Bonjour (née Rendezvous, née Zeroconf) networking. With good ol’ Tiger, it Just WorkedTM, and all was milk and honey as far as printing went in my home. But noooo, it didn’t like the hoity-toity, super-duper-greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread Leopard attitude, and just spat out endless reams of cryptic stack dumps instead of, say, directions to wherever I was in a hurry to leave for. I poked around a little, checking for new drivers and all that sort of common sense stuff, and found that even Brother’s website claimed that the drivers were bundled with Leopard and that there was nothing for me to download.

I never did get around to figuring out the problem at the time, and being a sleep-deprived and very busy new dad it unfortunately hasn’t been much of a priority. Somehow I’ve learned to live with six months (!!!) of not being able to print a damn thing. And worse, I’ve had to hold off on upgrading my wife’s machine, which has kept her from being able to enjoy the goodness of automated Time Machine backups.

I finally got fed up with it today and decided to finally sort things out once and for all. I even indulged my inner noob and followed Brother’s directions, even though it meant assigning a static IP to my printer and dropping it back from the awesomeness of Bonjour to the semi-awesomeness of old-school IP printing. It turns out that, even though no one says it anywhere, that was the key. So, here’s a bit of advice for future Googlers: the 5070N will not print correctly using Bonjour under 10.5. You want the CUPS driver and the “HP Jetdirect - Socket” protocol. Then poof! It’s all happy again.

Now to go about breaking upgrading Liz’s laptop…

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• Ajax performance analysis
  A useful introduction to the subject…
  (tags: ajax performance javascript development webdev tutorial)
• Javascript - Event compatibility tables
  A great reference for top browsers’ event support on various elements. I think I’m in love.
  (tags: javascript browser compatibility events dom webdev)
• Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
  Worth a look; wonder what my SD700 is capable of?
  (tags: photography camera canon hacks howto lifehacker)
• Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Gag Reel
  So much LOL, it’s scary.
  (tags: bsg galactica funny video bloopers)
• sorrows-mudlib: a MUD framework with Stackless Python
  As a one-time LP-MUD programming freak (ca. 1991-1995), this might be a dream come true. *nostalgic sigh*
  (tags: mud python stackless programming library development games gamedev)
• Manning: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
  I might have to pick this up…
  (tags: javascript books programming)
• B5 Flashback #1: Building the Central Corridor
  I was the biggest nerd for Babylon 5 back in the day… I can’t wait for the rest of this series of amazing behind-the-scenes goodness.
  (tags: babylon5 b5)

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