I've been using DropBox for quite a while now, at least a year maybe two. I've used syncing software before and it always got to a point where I would get conflicts and have to do cumbersome folder merges to try and sort out which file was the most up to date. That has never happened with DropBox.

Given that I am primarily a web developer and do a LOT of server-side programming you would think this the ideal solution for keeping two Apache server root directories (one on a laptop, one on a development server) in sync. A vital requirement given my peripatetic work life. But no! The good folks at DropBox insisted that the DropBox folder be called "My DropBox" and as any self-respecting Apache httpd.conf wrangler knows, spaces in folder names do not play well with the web-server du jour.

Over the last few days I've had cause to reinstall my main development machine and noticed that Dropbox now names it's folder simply "DropBox". I don't know when they introduced this change but I for one am very, VERY grateful.

I was listening to the latest Pipeline podcast at the gym this morning in which Dan Benjamin interviews Garrett Dimon. Garrett said something really profound that has really stuck with me when it comes to hiring and firing. I couldn't find a transcript and I haven't got time to listen all the way through it again to find it so I'll paraphrase:

"It doesn't make sense to me to fire someone for making a mistake who now knows not to make that mistake again then hire someone who doesn't know not to make that mistake."

I remember driving up Market Hill in Maldon, Essex one summers day and seeing the Google Streetview car coming the other way. I periodically checked over the following months until one day there I was!

Here's one.

It seems that in Internet Explorer if a submit button is not visible or hidden during a JQuery .submit() event triggered by a press of the enter key, the form does not submit! Clicking the submit button works fine.

Take the following code:

1.	$('#myform').live('submit', function(){ 
2.		alert('submitting);
3.		$('#submitbutton').hide(); 
4.	});

If the enter key is pressed, the code on line 3 is parsed and Internet Explorer stops submitting the form. If I rem out line 3, the alert fires and form submits.

Once again, this code works fine if the form is submitted by clicking on the submit button

A couple of years ago a 'meme' caught my attention called 'My Day Yesterday'. Using Flickr's 90 second limit on video, people were encouraged to create a video of a day in their life to fit in just 90 seconds. No musical soundtrack, no narration.

Recently I was alerted to something called 'Pummelvision'. This service hooks in to Facebook, Flickr or Tumblr and grabs the most recent 2500 photos creating a fast flip-book style video of them against a black background and set to an inspired piece of music. My efforts from Facebook and Flickr can be seen below.

What makes these two stand out for me and also what connects them for me is that after creating my own I want to see other peoples' efforts. I still return to My Day Yesterday from time to time and have spent a good couple of hours this afternoon viewing the pummelvisions of utter strangers. In fact it's a great way to quickly see enough of a person's Flickr stream to know if I want to peruse it at a slower and more considered pace.

My day, yesterday from Lewis Walsh on Vimeo.

My Pummelvision (Facebook) from Lewis Walsh on Vimeo.

My Pummelvision (Flickr) from Lewis Walsh on Vimeo.