Well, after working like 24 hours staright, I have upgraded surebert toolkit a bunch and released a flash player 10 compliant javascript accessible multi file upload way ahead of everyone else
. I have to hurry an intergrate it into all my projects before people start moving en massse to flash player ten and no one can upload multifiles anymore.
I am much happier with the new version and I learned a lot. Like how much MXML application suck for tiny things. The smallest I could get it as an MXML application was about 150k which is so freakin lame considering it is just a bttton. I didn't even think to look at the size until I was done and I was so pissed. There was no way I was going to add a 150k button to pages.
So I scapped where I was at and build one form scratch as and Actionscript 3 project in Flex and used the flash drawing API to draw the button states etc. Its nice with an actionscript project you can really get the project size so tiny. I ended up managing to get it all under 10K which is a lot more reasonable. You can style everything bou tthe button from javascript and all the event handlers are the same as the old surebert multifile uploader ones so implementation should be easy. I commented the javascript API but no so much the flex code. The Javascript is here
and assumes you are using the surebert toolkit although you could adapt it to run on anything else. Anyways, the flex code is here if you are interested
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Thanks for sharing, (e:dragonlady). I will keep that in mind and might switch when the guilt becomes unbearable.
Blood is not revolting or even disturbing to me at all.
As for ear candles. PLEASE RETURN THEM!!! They are clinically not efficacious, and in fact injurious.
:::link::: I was so grossed out by the sponges that I totally missed that you bought them!!
If you want to get earwax out, try and get eardrops/oil and drop them into your ear for a week or so (a few drops daily). This will soften the wax up. Then get a syringing appointment at the ENT clinic. Syringing is a process by which a fine spray of sterile water is pointed into the ear and pushes out the softened wax.
More tips for ear-health:
PLEASE get rid of all your earbuds. They are the NUMBER #1 reason for impacted wax and do more harm and no good at all. They push ear wax deeper into the ear. The ear has a natural conveyor belt like assembly whereby ear wax is naturally circulated outward from the tympanic membrane into the external ear canal. The best way to clean your ears is by swishing your finger gently around your external ear while you are showering. Poking and using earbuds are the reason 50K Americans report to the ENT clinic with impacted wax every year. I cannot reiterate this enough. Get rid of the ear candles and the earbuds. Both are evil little implements of ear ruin. :(
Sea sponges!!!! Weird.
Since you brought it up...
I do use the natural rubber version of the silicone cup (e:leetee) was talking about. I've used it two years now. it's actually really great. And I generate absolutely zero waste (I dunno about you, tinypliny, but I used to use a hell of a lot more than 4 pads in a month-- I bleed for a solid week! Maybe I'm just a freak. I am a much bigger person than you are, so that might make sense that I would generate a lot more volume-- but that might not be science, so don't quote me). You can even do the opposite of generating waste, and dump the blood out of the cups into your compost bucket, or dilute it with water 4:1 to use immediately as fertilizer for houseplants. It's organic! It's nutrient-dense! It's clean!
It's amazing how much cleaner and less disgusting all that mess seems when it's not in a grody bleached paper and plastic thing in your manky underwear. When it's just blood, it's totally not gross or nasty or smelly at all anymore-- it's just blood. And blood isn't particularly gross. Slightly disturbing, but not really gross.
But a sea sponge seems totally nasty. I would not shove anything like that up there. Also, I am fairly certain that would leak like anything. Rubber at least is hygeinic-- you can wash it in hot water and vinegar or soap. The silicone ones, you can boil. That makes sense to me. They don't get stained, they don't get stinky, they're waterproof and don't leak.
So yeah, wow, ew.
Are ear candles any good??? I read somewhere that they were a crock and dangerous and didn't work and whatever, but I don't remember where I read it so I have no idea whether it was just some idiot saying that.
I am not sure I would like to shove anything in, including tampons. :/ I think pads are a hygienic and non-invasive way to go. I know they create a lot of waste etc. But it's a matter of hygiene and good health and I cannot short-change that aspect. I briefly considered those silicone cups that (e:leetee) recommended, but was freaked out by the idea. To compensate and not feel overtly guilty about creating a waste of about 4 pads/month or 48/year, I try and cut down all the other solid/plastic/non-biodegrable waste from my household as much as I can. :(