Monthly Archives: May 2002

Sitepoint forums are a cool developers hang out. Even if you’re not stuck with something, there’s a chance you can lend a hand to someone else and hope that the good karma comes back to you when you’re stuck. So I’m finding it increasingly perplexing that I seem to have some sort of karma bypass installed around my topics when I do need help.

I’ve posted questions on nested while loops, as well as a Javascript cookie query, not to mention a few others. Yet somehow, each time I ask for help, I’m either not understood… or nobody is willing to cough up the answer.

I find it hard to believe that I’m asking the kind of questions that hundreds of online gurus are completely foxed by. So maybe it’s the way I’m asking? Am I being too polite? Am I not explaining myself properly?

Whatever it is, I wish I knew.

On the other hand, I’m building up so much good karma that someone is due to post the winning Lotto numbers to me instead of answering my coding question, which would instantly trivialise the problem anyway! ;o)

The captivating read of the $95,000 Adventure had me almost as gripped as the story of Bob Kolody vs Coca Cola about a year ago. The Coca-Karma case has just been updated although still shows no signs of reaching a conclusion in the near future. I guess that’s the US legal system for you.

Thanks to Jeremy for the link to the $95,000 Adventure story – I don’t know where he finds the time to come up with all these great links. :o)

Hey! – Check it out – I’m goin’ to Mars!

Ok, so only my name is going… and it’s going on a CD-ROM with loads of other names… but my name has dibs on a window seat, man! If your name wants to sit beside mine on the isle seat, sign up here.

Hmmm – all this trip to Mars stuff reminds me of a book I was writing. Took me about six years to get to the 130 page mark because I kept going back and re-writing stuff or running out of inspiration and leaving it for a few months. At present I’ve been doing the latter for over two years, so I guess my book will never see the light of day. Shame, really – I thought the story was pretty good, but some of the techno stuff I invented in the book (it was set in the future) is already a reality. Gadgets like 2Ghz+ PC processors, colour palm devices and mobile phones with streaming video aren’t really the stuff of sci-fi any more.

Hell, I even came up with some futuristic computer network that allowed almost everyone to have access to reams of free information. Yeah, that does sound kind of familiar, but back in ’94 I had no way of knowing how fast the internet was going to bloom.

I do stand by my Light Drives(tm) and the super fast interplanetary travel it allowed, though – they haven’t come up with that one yet! I suppose that does mean that my name has a long, arduous flight ahead of it, though. :o)