Yesterday afternoon, I talk a walk downtown with Christian, in order to check out the Day Without an Immigrant protests against HR-4337, the proposed bill that will make it a felony offense to be inside the USA illegally, amongst other things.

You may have heard some news about it.

Later that afternoon, we met up with Kim, MAKSTER, and hexod.us at Macarthur Park and joined the march into Hollywood. About halfway down, we ran into fellow Flickr ninjas Orrin & 7-how-7.

I've uploaded a few photos to my flickr stream, and it seems most of the rest of the world has, too. Some popular pools you may be interested in are Immigration Nation & A Day Without Immigrants - Un dia sin inmigrantes. Alternatively, check out the interestingness going down at the adaywithoutimmigrants clusters.

While I occassionally use Internet Explorer's proprietary CSS "expression" value calculations for prototypes, I always thought it was limited to one statement -- you can't use a semicolon to seperate multiple statements like you would in regular Javascript. However, you can use the && concatenator to accomplish the same thing, as such:

.myDivClass {
width:expression( (var expressionOne) && (var expressionTwo) )
}

...which can come in handy when you need to do some browser-specific object detection before applying a value.

This via a comment by Marc Köhlbrugge on Cameron Moll's blog, obtained from Paul O'B's site.

The second tip regards the use of multiple CSS class names on a single element. I use these fairly often, but I've always kept the CSS code seperate for each class, as I didn't think there was a way to apply the cascade to the intersection of multiple class names. Turns out there is, and it's as simple as it should be. For an element with two CSS classes:

<element class="classOne classTwo">

The relevant CSS would be:

element.classOne.classTwo {
/* rules */
}

After spending the last 4 or so years trapped in the pestilential hells of Mordor living in Pittsburgh, PA, Kim & I recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA. We're now living in Angeleno Heights, purportedly Los Angeles' first suburb, and within spitting distance of Echo Park, Chinatown, and downtown.

We're hoping that the plans to resurrect the Angeleno Heights trolley line are a success, as it would likely end up running past our front door, but for now I'm happy with the regular visits from the neighborhood ice-cream truck.

It turns out Angeleno Heights is pretty well-known for its historically significant sprawling Victorian homes, which as we discovered last night, make it a great place for Halloween. Many of the older homes were elaborately decked out, the streets were full of families in costume, and on the whole it was a pretty festive atmosphere.

Other recent activities include exploring our new neighborhood, visiting the awesome not a cornfield project, the Burning Man decompression party and FAB Market in downtown, as well as attending Lucha va Voom with our friends hexod.us and MAKster.

However, as you may notice, I have cleaned up things a bit around here over the last few days, removing some of the older content, slapping a fresh coat of paint on, and adding a couple of new widgets: thumbnails of my Flickr photostream, and Brandon Fuller's Now Playing iTunes plugin.

The underlying code on the site is still a bit of a mess, the result of minor tweaking here and there over the course of the years with no real plan or direction. Both the HTML and CSS still validate, but I'm hoping to clean things up a bit on that front too over the next couple of weeks.

One thing that I'm finding particularly cool about this, is that it hooks right into my Flickr account, so I can drag and drop photos into blog posts, like this:

The options to edit the raw html are a bit primitive, and it would be nice if it generated the same code as Flickr's "Blog this" button, but I'm sure that will come with time.