chris’ blog

i just wrote my first proper ajax widget. i’d fiddled with ajax before, but just using “responseText”. i finally took the effort to figure out how to parse xml using DOM. i chased my tail for an hour or so, simply because i hadn’t set:

header(’Content-Type: text/xml’);

i saw the film the number 23 last night. i really enjoyed jim carrey. the film itself was a bit muddled and very implausible. what is a thriller exactly? is it meant to be believable or plausible. because this certainly wasn’t. it tried very hard though. some scenes were filmed very nicely. but then some dialog sucked big time. i’m still not quite convinced joel schumacher should be a famous director.

meanwhile, it did end on a reference to numbers 32:23. it was a bit of a loose association, but it’s not often hollywood films end with a scripture quote, so i liked it.

during the last scene, which was fairly contrived and probably unnecessary, it sounded like two women behind me were crying. on leaving i over heard one of them saying “that was the most unnecessary and the worst film i have ever seen”. perhaps she was laughing. i didn’t think it was that bad.

my clothes are finally dry after all the rain of the past week. but on folding them to put them away, they smell damp. so the dance continues.

guitar hero is quite fun. only gus (the bassist) and zak (the drummer) of mo, both beat me, the guitarist. perhaps i should stick to cowbells.

after frolicking in our backyard yesterday, i woke up in the middle of the night with lice under my skin, and in my bed. they’re so fricken itchy. i slept on the lounge room floor figuring i’d fix the problem in the morning. after a reasonably bad night sleep, i spent the day cleaning all threads in sight. yet every so often i can feel the itch somewhere on my body, and find another one nested.