I have found jscalendar to be an effective, if bloated, solution for integrating a DHTML calendar into an existing form input field requiring a user to enter a date and optionally a time. However, for it transparently effective, it needs to appear when a user brings focus to the form field and disappear when focus is lost. While you can configure jscalendar to respond to an onFocus event for the inputField and to close on single click outside its window, you cannot presently prevent an onFocus event from creating multiple instances of the same calendar as you provide and remove focus from your input field. Fortunately, I have resolved that today.

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While signing up for an account at Citibank’s Web site, I came across the most amusing scare to prod you into selecting electronic statements. Security. Specifically, is your physical postal mailbox really secure?

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<carnivale> So is Linux a city?
<TheLogan> No. It's a game you play on Windows XPee
<TheLogan> The object is to refill armadillo by punishing fat ponies.
<carnivale> hmmm?
<TheLogan> Or else you end up in the closet with the amorous aardvark.  It's pretty fun.
<carnivale> ill take your word for it

Before I could start using acts_as_wizard a few things had to be changed. First, core_extensions.rb defined,

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