Burning Chrome

Quick thoughts

• Being sick really, really stinks. It's 3 am; normally, I'd be fast asleep now. At the moment, I've slept so much that I can't sleep all that well. Also, the prescription the doc gave me scrambles my thought processes, so I've avoided it for a few hours now as I seemed to be getting over the worst of this cold.
• I know SVG in XUL documents works. I've been meaning to write an article for this blog about SVG in XUL applets (think images on buttons), but I haven't figured out all the details, and I wouldn't recommend the procedure for an end-user final application anyway. (It'd be fine for alphas and betas.)
• I just had this crazy idea about inline SVG images in a XHTML document: being able to select the image and then clicking a button for adding float:left styling to the image, so that text runs to the right and around it. That of course brought up at least the concept for a whole toolbar of instant styling buttons, at which point my rattled biological chips went "Abort, Retry, Fail". Oogh.
• The Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Hallelujah.
• I love grape juice.
• The worst part about being sick is that it absolutely stops me cold (no pun intended) from doing anything of practical value. I can't concentrate enough to solve problems, do any design work, or help out in testing patches on any bug that really is important. It's frustrating, but I can't work up enough of a rage against frustration (as I usually do) to do anything about it.
• This is downright funny, and probably true.