What day is it?
Thursday, my calendar definitively says that it’s Thursday.
But what’s this on my socks? Read the rest of this entry »
Javascriptery: Tabbed forms
Forms are perhaps the bane of web development for me; you can’t get them to look good, you can’t find a foolproof way to make them act well and lets not even start of trying to get them into a pacified state, free from the dangers of user input (surprise ending: form input will never be completely trustworthy). A lot of sites would appear to have aesthetically pleasing forms, however this is a careful ruse by them as they sidestep the problem of forms by having only one or two of them, and then they usually only have a few fields. The monstrosities I am required to deal with almost daily are things of grotesque beauty, veritable Rube Goldberg machines of complexity. Read the rest of this entry »
Blogosphereotronomatic - GO!
I have put in a list of links of other websites I frequent in the right hand column (the much maligned right column) but only on the homepage. Many people may be tempted to call it a “Blogroll” which is precisely what Wordpress informed me it was called when I put in the links; this however sounds far too close to “bogroll” which means toilet paper and I doubt that’s something that I would like to infer about sites which you are potentially scurrying towards, away from this nexus of madness. As such, and to lampoon the grotesque word “blogosphere”, this list of links is now called the Blogosophereotronomatic, bow before your new Scrabble word god.
I plucked these links from my RSS reader (RSS Owl, how I love thee) however there is one category still left to add, the ubiquitous “Stuff” category which more or less defines this site as well as my life so take from that what you will. I’m hoping to tweak the design at some point and possibly add RSS feed links (as that’s usually how I read them) but that’s for another time.
Squirrel watch: Volume I - The Beginninging
Such evil constrained within a tiny, furry body
It is my firm belief that one day, soon, squirrels will ascend to the dominant species of this world, enslaving humanity with their pointy teeth and twitching tails, the threat is very real and cannot be underestimated. One day, the lesser species of the earth can shake their heads and know how things went wrong, and know that they could have stopped it; as such I feel it is my duty to catalogue and document their meteoric rise to power, primarily because I am training them to become better, more efficient dervishes of destruction. Read the rest of this entry »
Cry, cry, cry silver tears / This is the song, of wish you were here
What’s on the menu today? Well I thought I’d start out with a little self-referential flagellation, move on to a full course of emosity (a new word from across the seas) and finish off with a sprig of apathy. That’s enough menu analogy for now. There are very few ways of drafting a post like this without it seeming like a syringe full of angst to the eyeball, unfortunately for you dear reader, this is precisely how my brain works. Read the rest of this entry »
