Our photos for the holiday and Jarre concert are up here.

(a blue Mondeo)
Could you please
1) Indicate
2) Drive close to the speed limit
3) Use right turn lane at roundabouts if you want to turn right

Otherwise, you're going to t-bone someone one day. Nearly did today, in fact, when I went to move off the roundabout and had to brake rather sharpish because you hadn't turned off, and still weren't indicating.

Tit.

(cross posted from the Jarre Mailing List)

I blame my parents.

I was fairly young, and they were playing an LP (that's one of those large black CD's, youngens) of Oxygene, shortly after Docklands was on TV, closely followed by Chronologie's release, and attending that concert - which blew my mind.

Now I own almost everything he's ever played, and a silly number of penguins.

Please take local copies, or get some of your own webspace.

Hotlinking from your sig to a picture on someone else's server is very much not on.

Of course, because you thought you could free load off my bandwidth, you might now find the 'funny' graphic you linked to is somewhat more funny to others, and less so to you :-)

Nothing like a hundred fold increase in traffic to make me perk up in the evening.

('scuse me, geeky moment...)
Here is a wrapper I've written around the Sarissa cross browser XmlHttpRequest object.

It handles all the posting, error display (even of server-side errors !) etc. for you, and returns an XMLDom document (if one was generated). It won't let you execute more than one thing at once (later requests block until earlier ones complete). This is an advantage to me :-)

From your JavaScript, you need to:

<script src="/javascripts/lib-xmlhttp/sarissa.js"/>
<script src="/javascripts/lib-xmlhttp/sarissa_ieemu_xpath.js"/>
<script src="/javascripts/lib-xmlhttp/request.js"/>

Then you can just do a very simple call to get your XMLDoc, and do whatever you want with it. You can even _makeRequest() things that don't return anything (and get a sensible return code to check all went well) - such as updating a session variable.

var x=_makeRequest('user-checkNameIsFree','user='+document.getElementById('user_name').value;
var res=x.selectSingleNode('//result/text()');
if (res=='no'){
...
}

The request calls a single hard-coded template name, an example of the template is here.
As you can see, it's a simple switching place, based on the first argument to _makeRequest(). If you structure your request name string, you can then break out request.cfm later, for abstraction, if you want.

This is so much better than the system I was using, involving Pengowork's Gateway, which was slow, and didn't support single-threading access itself, which lead to many a global JavaScript lock variable hack.