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Jodi just updated her blog (go Jodi!) with news of our lovely daughter’s recent ear piercing (she’s elated), birthday (parents are exhausted), and discovery of a new way to listen to music:

Also on Saturday, we finally got her iPod (yes, she has a hand-me-down iPod) to work with her processor! … Basically, she plugs a cord directly into her processor and presses “play” on the iPod and nobody else hears a sound. Her eyes light up and she says, “it works! I hear music!” The music is transmitted directly into her auditory nerve. Sounds are perceived, yet no tree fell anywhere! She was so excited, and we are thrilled too because this is something that will continue to develop her listening skills with her implanted ear. How many of the rest of us wish we could listen to our iPods straight from iPod to the brain!?

Oh, me me! (The title comes from the name of the manufacturer of her cochlear implant)

Unbelievable. IE(6/7?) does not send onchange events for radio buttons correctly.

7.) Radio buttons, do not fire the onchange event, until another element is given the focus. This is plain wrong, as any attempt to retrieve the value returns the new, changed value, thus the event most certainly occurred.

Living life in a cubicle? At work, I just moved from the cozy confines of the designer’s room (khaki walls, IKEA-provided indirect lighting, ironic bank of high-school lockers) to a spot in the developer’s cube-farm. So I’ve started looking for links to resources for improving my surroundings.

To such ends, I’ve started a Cubicle Rescue group on Ma.gnolia. Feel free to join up and contribute!

I’ve been working again on a tool at work that uses JQuery to dynamically load various files into the content area of a locally based web page to test css-based templates. The tool was working fine in Firefox and IE6, then I recently “upgraded” to IE7 and it went all wonky on me. After a day or so of Googling, I found this post from Xavier Hanin: IE7 support for XmlHttpRequest which details the fact that IE7’s XMLHTTPRequest cannot load files from disk (file:// urls).

I brought it up on the #jquery IRC channel, and John Resig filed a bug for the issue; the solution is to use the old XMLHTTPRequest ActiveX object instead of IE7’s native one, but I’m unsure if users on Vista with IE7 even have the old version.

More info as I find it.

I whipped up an XFN test page with some XFN test data for those developing parsers or other tools. It has all the canonical cases from the 1.1 profile, as well as a variety of common-sense two-relationship combinations, and a basic set of invalid relationships (>1 friendship value, for example).

If this is helpful to you, or you hav ecomments or suggestions, a feedback link is on the test page.