Spent a lot of today working with one of my new co-workers James. He seems like a fun guy. Apparently, he read my journal. I suggested he start one of his own. If you are reading this, start one.
On another note, I can't believe I am still at work. I am trying to finish this video uploading site for a contest they are hosting. Unfortunately, the magic that is my surebert multi file unloader is about to die as Flash Player 10 changed the way you can call the FileReference browse method and calling it from javascript is no longer an option. They want it to have a flash interface. Adobe says it makes it safer, I say it just makes it flashier and makes me mad.
I plan on creating a new multi file uploader widget based on my previous work
but I won't have time tonight and they needed a solution now. I decided to just use traditional file uploads seeing as they are only uploading one file.
Cool enough, but sadly you don't get the progress which is really the fun part of the surebert uploader. Luckily, there is a php extension
that allows you not only track how much of the file has been uploaded but how long it expects to take, the current speed, etc. Its really so easy and you can quickly get the data back via json. You add an extra random ID attribute to your form and it uses that as a key to track the file upload. Then you can make requests back to the server to get updates on the time remaining, etc. You make the requests via ajax which is really simple and great.
Sadly, after testing in IE6 and firefox and everything working, I tested it in Safari which refuses to receive ajax responses after it has initiated a file upload. I send them, it just won't process any responses. I hate you safari. Seriously, its always you that has to make everything fucked up.
Anyways, so I re-factored and ended up going with an iframe solution as safari was happy with that and so were the other browsers. Its cool to get an estimated finish time.
The author makes arguments for a misreading as well. I feel like he wasn't arguing the text was faulty but the religious/political institution was.
Thanks for the recommendation on Girard. I will check him out.
Not going to argue the convergence of other stories with the Christ story, except to say that Rene Girard is the most amazing person to read regarding the phenomena. :::link:::
But the texts being anti-jewish is mostly based on a misreading, as the authors of the Gospels, and most of the early Christians with them, were Jews. It was not anti-semitism, but anti-religious/political establishment.
Then there is the story of Mythras, the Persian god who mirrored Jesus, who's temple in Rome stood where the vatican stands.
A good book I enjoyed for class recently was "Who Killed Christ?" which talks about how the four gospels were written by people who, in the grief of Jesus' death, looked to the old testament to find prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. They wrote them into the story of Jesus, even though they may not have happened, to make Jesus seem more god-like.
Also he explains why the text is so amazingly anti-Jewish.
Terrified of Christians? So all I have to do is come to Halloween as myself and that will be scary to you?! ;)
What did he have to say about Hindus? :)
I have a sign on my cube.
no....see what you failed to mention, and what i think was the most important and MAIN point of the movie is that it is calling for us non-religious, atheist people to get off our ass, stop being so ambivalent and passive....and start taking control and action against religious majority who are basically running this world into the ground.
he said that we are the BIGGESTY minority (compared to blacks, muslims, jews, asians) in the country, yet we have no power, no voice, no agenda, no support and no recognition.