Tonight I was busy with a couple of minor changes to my network. First was to setup a new firewall (IPCop) on a newer hardware - my old Pentium 166 just wasn't up to the task anymore. (er, maybe I should stop downloading so many distros...). But the second task was to add another gigabyte of RAM to my server so it could run more than one virtual machine. And now that it can, I can continue setting up my Windows development server in a VM.

I recently wrote about how Javascript development can be made much easier using Prototype.js, and jQuery. Today I have come across an article on IBM's DeveloperWorks site about jQuery.

Javascript is a powerful language if you know how to use it for more than simple roll-overs. But, taking on a large scale Javascript based application can be time consuming, and troublesome. The benefits may very well be worthwhile, but if you do all the code yourself, your project might take longer than you'd like to complete.

I just had another frustrating experience with Microsoft Windows. And it didn't have to be frustrating at all, except for the poor manner Microsoft seems to treat their customers, users, and developers.

Well, the internet connection to my location has been down for the past number of hours. The cause? My ISP (Shaw Cable) decided to change my static IP addresses without telling me. Apparently they missed the fact that my account would be affected when they replaced a router, so I wasn't notified until after the fact.