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[themadone]

Yesterday, I had the afternoon off. It was meant to be because I thougth GameSoc was going to Laser Quest again, but I got the date wrong - it's next week. But rather than cancel the time off, I decided to make the most of it.

I gorged myself at pizza hut on their lunch time buffet deal. What may come as a surprise to people (it was to me) was that I had a huge plate from the salad bar as well as pizza. Afterwards, I watched Hot Fuzz. Definitely not as good as Shaun of the Dead. And not just cos it doesn't have cryx in it, either. I'm not saying it's a bad film though - it's very funny - but SotD was funnier.

I briefly nosed around the various book stores. There's quite a large number of books I'd like to buy, but my unread book pile is already very large and not going down very quickly. I'd also like to make more use of the IFIS library too.

And then I spent the evening learning all about Ajax and writing something useful with it.

I think I need more time off to do random stuff like this more often.

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[eggwhite.livejournal.com]

I need to peruse AJAX more... I know the principles, but haven't actually used them very much yet. I can see many places where I could apply it, but I need to weigh up pros and cons first.

[themadone.livejournal.com]

It does appear to be very shiny.

I took a heavily bloated form I'd put together to do attendance details for Cam and got it dynamically go and fetch player details as and when it needed them. Much more sensible than having a huge lookup table in the page's source.

I think I'm going to do something similiar for the book adding/editing page for the IFIS site, cos that takes ages to download.