Archive for November 2009

8 November

Word Clock v2

I’ve seen a few nice-looking representations of clocks around, but when I saw Gumuz’s word clock I though I could make some improvements to it. Here’s a couple of the changes:…

Archive for October 2009

23 October

Mootools Hash.setFromPath

MooTools More implements a getFromPath method in Hash.Extras, but doesn’t provide a corresponding setter. Here’s an implementation: Hash.implement({ setFromPath:…

Archive for September 2009

16 September

MLIA

Today, after reading over 3000 posts on FML over the the past 6 months, I realised that MLIA is actually more enjoyable than schadenfreude. MLIG is too boring, though. MLIA

Archive for May 2009

27 May

Spacing out CamelCase in PHP

Here’s a nifty function to put spaces in your CamelCased words: function spacify($camel, $glue = ' ') { return $camel[0] . substr(implode($glue, array_map('implode',…

18 May

2B or not 2B

…that is the question. The answer? FF.

Archive for April 2009

10 April

Paying the Price for Bad Grammar

This is why we need Grammar Nazis: Today, I was flirting via text with a coworker. Things started getting heated, and I wanted to send her a sexy picture. I asked if she had any suggestions.…

Archive for March 2009

30 March

Things I Learnt Today

That Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw is a goon;, that his early stuff is, if anything, funnier than his paid stuff for The Escapist;, that I there will always be something on the Internet…

Archive for February 2009

17 February

Get a Grid for Transparent Images in Firefox

Here’s a useful bit of Firefox hackery for you all. It puts a checkerboard (or chequerboard, for you elitists) image as the background for your transparent images. It works for any image…

Archive for January 2009

30 January

A Message to Tinchy Strider

It’s misled. I don’t care if you made it up to rhyme with mistreated, or if you use an 8-bit–style riff to appeal to my geekiness — The word is misled. That is all.

Archive for October 2008

17 October

Yay, xkcd

Makefile: me: @true a: @true sandwich.: @[ -w /etc/shadow ] && echo "Okay." || echo "What? Make it yourself." Shell: $ make me a sandwich. What? Make it yourself. …