False Positives

Now this is a 404 error [link]

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I’m going to pay for this, no doutb, but here goes.. A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager

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Toronto finds a hero in Dr. Basrur. wonderful story from the Toronto Globe and Mail:

“I have such faith in Dr. Basrur,” she said, referring to the city’s diminutive, 46-year-old, single-mother medical officer of health, who had followed the mayor’s performance with a lucid and persuasive, fact-by-fact deconstruction of the WHO analysis. “She is so honest and you know she has such integrity,” Lori said, hesitating slightly before plunging forward. “Please don’t let Mayor Mel represent us on CNN!” Toronto needs a Rudy Giuliani? Just look down. There she is, “five feet and shrinking,” she allows when pressed, a woman of colour with the physique of a Cornish hen, large expressive eyes shining behind her glasses and the unmistakable ways of a born leader. Sheela Basrur is a leader who came to prominence the old-fashioned way, much to her own surprise, as a down-and-dirty fighter in the infection-control trenches. Working in isolation, her department was almost overwhelmed trying to track down and gather up the far-flung cases that exploded out of Scarborough Grace Hospital last month. As the crisis widened to engulf the entire regional health-care system, however, it was her talents as a communicator that came to dominate. Fearsomely articulate, logical and frank in her assessments of the epidemic, Dr. Basrur worked steadily to allay fears about rampant contagion in Toronto. Although little heeded at the height of the alarm, she emerged as the steadiest, most credible public spokesperson on SARS. By the time WHO hit, nobody was prepared to hit back harder.

Where do I start the Dr. Basrur for Mayor Campaign?

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Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule?

Summary:
Text-only advertisements work far better than banners, but is this only due to their novelty? Search engine text ads will retain their superiority over time, but text ads on other sites will work only if they focus on directly meeting users’ needs.

From Jakob Nielsen (making web site suck less since 1995). Actually supportive for the start-up that will not die.

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JS form validate to re-cycle

function validateForm() {

var f = document.forms[0]

var ErrorFields = “”

var ccError = “”

// For development Only

selectedbypassLoc = f.bypass.selectedIndex

selectedbypassValue = f.bypass.options[selectedbypassLoc].text

if ( selectedbypassValue != “Test” )

{

alert (”For development Only Validation ByPass!!!!”)

f.submit()

return(”")

}

var i = 0, temp = 0;

var allEmptyFields = “”;

var Empty = false;

var emptyFields = new Array();

if ( f.FirstName.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “First Name”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.LastName.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Last Name”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.Address1.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Address”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.AddressCity.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “City”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

selectedProvLoc = f.AddressProvince.selectedIndex

selectedProvValue = f.AddressProvince.options[selectedProvLoc].text

if ( selectedProvValue == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Province”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.AddressPostalCode.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Postal Code”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.PhoneBusiness.value ==”" && f.PhoneHome.value ==”" )

{

if ( f.PhoneBusiness.value ==”" )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Business Phone Number”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

else

{

emptyFields[i] = “Home Phone Number”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

}

if ( f.PhoneHome.value !=”" && f.PhoneHomeAreaCode.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Home Phone Number Area Code”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.PhoneBusiness.value !=”" && f.PhoneBusinessAreaCode.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Business Phone Number Area Code”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.EMail.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Email Address”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

selectedCCTLoc = f.CreditCardType.selectedIndex

selectedCCTValue = f.CreditCardType.options[selectedCCTLoc].text

if ( f.selectedCCTValue == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Credit Card Type”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.CreditCardName.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Credit Card Name”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.DSEXPMTH.value == “” || f.DSEXPYEAR.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Credit Card Expriy Date”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

if ( f.DSCARD1.value == “” || f.DSCARD2.value == “” || f.DSCARD3.value == “” || f.DSCARD4.value == “” )

{

emptyFields[i] = “Credit Card Number”;

Empty = true;

i++;

}

else

{

ccError = validateCard();

}

if (Empty)

{

for(var count = 0; count < i; count++)

{

temp = emptyFields[count].length;

allEmptyFields +=emptyFields[count];

if (count % 2 != 0)

allEmptyFields += “\n”;

else

{

if (temp > 38)

allEmptyFields += “\t”;

if (temp < =38 && temp >29)

allEmptyFields += “\t\t”;

if (temp < = 29 && temp >17)

allEmptyFields += “\t\t\t”;

if (temp < = 17 && temp >
allEmptyFields += “\t\t\t\t”;

if (temp< =8)

allEmptyFields += “\t\t\t\t\t”;

}

}

EmptyFieldsAlert = “\nThe following field(s) must be filled in before the form can be submitted:\n\n” + allEmptyFields + “\n”

}

if ( ccError != “” )

{

EmptyFieldsAlert = EmptyFieldsAlert + “\n\n” + ccError

}

if ( EmptyFieldsAlert != “” )

{

alert(EmptyFieldsAlert )

}

else

{

f.submit()

}

}

Not pretty but it works!.

This is how Jake got started, must be very careful.

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HTML Tag of the Day :

The No Break (nobr) tag, so your “Brand Name” is always on the same line for those picky marketing people at Giant Uber Corporation with the really long name Inc.

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Miss use of brain power: Magnetic Poetry on a web page!

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SARS: The Lullabye from BWG

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS

How I wonder what you are!

Up inside my lungs so high

Now I can’t breathe deep or sigh

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS

How I wonder what you are.

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS

How I wonder where you are!

To Hong Kong the virus came

From China, they are to blame

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS

How I wonder where you are.

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS

How I wonder why you are!

Did you come from animals?

Chickens, ducks, sheep, cows or bulls?

Twinkle, twinkle, little SARS

How I wonder why you are.

reminds me of something I learned in the Globe and Mail Editoral last week, that the Nursery Rhymes “Ring around the rosey” refred to the plague :

“Ring around the rosey!” If you had the plague, you had a red ring around rashes on your body

“Pocket full of poseys” I these were popular funural flowers.

“Ashes! Ashes!” buring the bodies was common.

“We all fall down!” DEAD! From the PLAGUE!!

Have a Nice Day!

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Mark Twain: “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”

Hey Guys (Chuck, Bob, Marty & Sue) maybe we can use this in our next pitch?

Via Adam Curry

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Death to version 4’s

Piece over on Tim Bray’s Ongoing about them deciding to stop support Version 4 Browsers (Netscape, and MS IE), why and what this means.

As it happens I’ve been asked to try and “fix” a major format breakage for Netscape 4.x on the Content Management web app I built for my current contract client. It’s Find on IE 5+ and Netscape 6+. Major Hair pulling sure to follow

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