The new job goes well. I'm still not completely clear what I can say about it as yet, as I'm under NDA and the public website has not yet been released, but when it is (soon), I'll link it. But I know I can say it goes well. Due to the driving distance to get to it and the arrangements I've made to deal with that, for the near future my internet access for the week will be much more limited, but I've pretty much made peace with the fact that if this weblog is update once a week, it's a good week.

Blog of interest: Expanding Brain (ExBr), a blog about "Windows outliners, software development and starting a new business". Also of note is that the author has set up a wiki for outliner topics. The author and I have been exchanging emails, comparing development notes.

SomethingAwful is an relatively old Internet Humor site, which may not be to your tastes. That said, their complaints and article about the effects of Google Accelerator seem to be well backed up, and I haven't seen this information come through my normal channels; even some of the dedicated Google weblogs don't seem to have picked this up yet... well, at least the ones I can get through to at the moment.

XBLinJS 0.4.1 is released. In the unlikely event your browser has SVG support built in, see the SVG Widget demo. Simple, but real.

One of the promises of XBLinJS was that you'd be able to use it for more than just HTML. I have to admit that at the time, I was only about 80% certain that I could do that. But I saw this article, and combined with the recent market successes of Firefox and some personal projects of interest that could be used there, I took a few hours tonight and tried to create an SVG Widget.

Springboarding from here, discussing an article on how Darwinians may be their own worst enemy. I was raised Christian and Creationist. By explicit and informed choice, I am still the former. I can no longer call myself the latter. I thought it might be interesting to share my thoughts and conclusions on that, and why I do not believe that to be a fundamental conflict. As is my speciality on this site, I would point out the "

XBLinJS 0.4 is released now. The promised "interesting widget" turned out to be a conversion of a Javascript Shell from elsewhere on the net; see the demo page, at the bottom. The main point of this release, aside from the aforementioned Javascript Console, is the big internal changes in the release. Be sure to read the CHANGELOG. One of the side effects of this big change is that XBLinJS can now actually be used as a replacement for XBL; see the Advanced Uses page.

This article explores a trend I had noticed lately, but had not noticed how pervasive it is. Much prime time television has become phenomenally complicated, to its great benefit. My wife and I both enjoy Alias and CSI (only the original, not the spinoffs), and we are frequently asking each other what something means, because if you so much as get up to get a drink, you'll miss something, something that might change the course of the entire episode.

I finally have a job, a real job, though I don't start until May 9th. For a while after that I will have an overlap between my real job and my last contract job, but after that, I hope to finally have some time to spend with a clear conscience on my open source projects that I want to work on, especially Iron Lute which has been seriously neglected (though not quite ignored).

There is a very nice Javascript Console available at http://www.squarefree.com/shell/shell.html; I've ported it into XBLinJS to replace the hacky little one I had written. I've tweaked it up a bit and also removed a little bit of functionality; in particular you can't start up the Console from a bookmarklet in the context of the original page, and it is easier to create subclasses with customized shell commands and keyboard shortcuts.