I got all my scrachpad documents and todo lists cleaned up and organized! I emailed Nate the results of my "research," my online searching, regarding image maps and graphs and virtual agents (see it here). Andy has been working on using mySQL in QT, and since I've got some mySQL experience, I've been trying to help him there.

There's no Wednesday meeting tomorrow, since folks are working hard on a big grant proposal that's due this week.

I started working on the bubble graph. If I call the javascript function that creates the graph (it uses document.write a lot) from the page, that works fine. But if I call it from an onclick event, it never finishes loading - the throbber just keeps going. And the CSS isn't applied to the graph, either - I don't know if this is because it never finishes loading, or if perhaps CSS is only applied after the initial page load, or what. I should find out if this is a Firefox-only issue. I think that I've at least narrowed it down to being caused by document.write; I don't have this problem until the function I call contains a document.write command. Maybe I'll Google for something like "javascript never finishes loading document.write".

I did find out that one of my validation errors on that page was caused by trying to use <meta ... /> when the doctype is HTML 4.01 Transitional instead of 1.0 Strict. Apparently - at least in the context I was using it - you need to format your meta tag like <meta ... > (note the different closing) or else it messes up the things that come after - probably the validator interprets the tag as not being closed.