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Today

6:29pm JST Thursday 4 September 2008 (day 14043)

Decently productive day at work: got some logic worked out for auto-updating a map or not, and I think it's relatively user-friendly as well. Basically if they move the location while zoomed in at better than level 14, a boolean is set so that the dropdowns will not refresh the map. So the basic idea is the dropdowns choose roughly where they are, and then the user finetunes it. After finetuning, their work won't be lost. Cool points: (!) if they move the marker while not-so-zoomed, the dropdowns will still update the marker. (@) they can easily toggle the boolean if they want the dropdowns to update the map.

It was this last point that gave me some trouble.. How to lock it at the right time, and how to let them know why the dropdowns aren't working. I had originally designed it so the boolean==true means the map is locked, and it was down by the map, not near the dropdowns. Now the logic is opposite. If boolean==true, the dropdowns work, and it's up by the dropdowns, so it makes sense to the user.

I officially claim the above ideas as of noon 4 September 2008. No more M$ weak patents on pgup and pgdn or some crap like that.

Also got the new universal login code from our other systems merged with takeout. Just as sbstrm was supposed to go live, Andrew and Malek were like, "hmmmm we should have a universal login for our systems," and spent about 2 weeks on that and some other ideas that came up. Now the takeout system has it as well, so anyone who can log into sbstrm will automagically be able to logonto (*) takeout as well.

(*) I considered "login to" and "log on to"

Um, so that was good. Oh, and then I played with Google's face recognition service on Picasa. It did relatively well, considering most of the faces I had on their servers were me an' Hitomi making funny faces.