IIRC, Mercury is retrograde about a quarter of the year on average, depending where it is in its orbit in relation to the Sun and Earth's orbit. So it's not exactly a rare occurence.

In astrological terms, Mercury retrograde negatively affects communication, so I suppose if you believe in that sort of thing it would be a bad time to buy anything with a phone or Internet connection. Me, I say more iphones for the rest of us!

So, curse you all for not having found a solution to my printing problem. But, having said that, can somebody point me to where I'm supposed to go on Apple's website to complain that their friggin' update broke my ability to print on my printer?

(Astrology? In the *tech* thread? Yeesh, omnis.)

Sean, it looks like there was a recent firmware update for that printer. Not sure if it would make any difference, also the website mentions some adjusting of firewall settings to get net scanning working, maybe that will have an impact as well.

OK, a Javascript question (instead of just ramblings)

oJTT.all returns a Javascript array of all the child elements of your table oJTT.

ajTT.all(19) will return the nineteenth element of that array, which is probably not the 19th row, or the row with DOM id (id="19") 19, except by coincidence.

ojTT.all(19) is an IE-only way of saying oJTT.all[19]. You should probably use the square brackets.

The tags method is another ID-only method. The way you've invoked it won't work, but your understanding of it is essentially correct.

If all you want to do is get a reference to the row element with DOM id 19, the easiest way is document.getElementById('19');

Sorry that I took so long to answer this!

Thanks Rob!

ojTT.all(19) is an IE-only way of saying oJTT.all[19]. You should probably use the square brackets.

Yeah, I should have mentioned this is for an IE-only application (it's the timesheet program for our biggest client).

My boss thinks we could develop it for other browsers, but I'm afraid that would be a huge task. There's shitloads of XML being manipulated by Javascript. So XML gets handles like this:

var objDom = new ActiveXObject(mstrXMLVersion);
objDom.loadXML(xmlRetrievedTimesheet);

"ActiveXObject" would be IE-only, right? How do non-IE browsers handle XML objects? (My boss thinks it'd be cool if this app would work on an iPhone!)

Sean, it looks like there was a recent firmware update for that printer.

I will try this firmware update.

Now, new questions --

I have long wanted to put the Futurama Poppler song on my phone as a ringtone. I have now succeeded, but it was a crappy MP3, and doesn't sound very good.

If I have a copy of that episode, what's the best way to rip that audio segment? I have Mac the Ripper, so I could rip the DVD right on to the hard drive. Is there a way to then rip out that 15 seconds of audio into like a WAV, and turn that into a ringtone through Garage Band?

What about if I put the DVD into my DVD player and run an RCA to balanced stereo cable from the audio out on my player to one of the inputs on my Mbox? Could I capture that 15 second audio segment in ProTools, mix it down to a WAV and turn *that* into a ringtone?

Well, the firmware update completely failed, as the updater cannot see my printer.

Which, of course, is the problem in the first place. I was a little worried that might happen.

What program can I use to open an "mpeg layer 3 audio". It won't open in itunes or quicktime.

mpeg layer 3 audio = mp3. If you can't open it in your usual mp3-playing app, I'd suspect that there's something wrong with the specific file.