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5th February 2010 1

E = mc^3

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything new…

— Albert Einstein

5th February 2010 0

There is no doubt that a handful of colours have certain nondetachable feelings associated them, and one in particular is without argument feminine.


Photo credit: stutefish

For the first few years at primary school (at my one anyway), we had these book bags which hung around the back of our chair. It was where we stored our books, and pens, but also allowed quick and easy transportation of school-gear to-and-from our school bags.

I had just turned five, just started to get addicted to LEGO, and it was my first week at school. Within that first week, I was taken into a room at the back of the classrooms. No I wasn’t in trouble, nor was I to be beaten to death; it was to choose my very own book bag!

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5th February 2010 0

This is an awesome truck

They better not be calling the bag “Obama”, just ’cause it’s black.

3rd February 2010 0

Everyone should do this!

Except might make you look a little donky when you next go to a public toilet. But hey, someone watching you coming out of a cubicle is bad enough, since they know you’ve done a poo-poo in the loo-loo.

22nd January 2010 0

They’re not bullet holes

Track your mouse

This cool guy has coded a script (mac, pc) that maps all your mouse movements onscreen.

Dots aren’t click as I initially thought, but are rather pauses of the cursor.

17th January 2010 7

How I felt after dropping my MacBook

Today was a really painful day for me, because I dropped my MacBook onto the ground. And now it’s dented.

16th January 2010 0

One of the best inventions

Today we needed to fix one of these inventions in my house. I’ve never taken notice of the super-awesome design within. With water and the power of gravity, it causes waves of water to crash against one-another to create an ever greater wave, before driving poos and wees down the drain.

Just imagine if we had to plunge our poos down the toilet every time we poo’d.

12th January 2010 3

I haven’t had a proper website for two years. No site means no maintenance, no constant need for writing posts just to retain the 5 people who often came to see me write stuff as exciting as pooing earthworms.

Photo on Flickr

However I’ve always felt it was a problem when I did have something to say, and did need to show off some of my work. What’s a web designer who doesn’t even have a decent website or a website at all? None more than average Joe, I say.

I’ve since made three promises (to myself) to get a site up and running again, but have found myself preoccupied with other things, or just simply short of any fantastic ideas. That’s changed, I now have a new site (hooray).

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12th January 2010 0

How to: Delay with jQuery

While building my site, I encountered an instance which required a ‘wait’ or ‘delay’ function. Unfortunate, until I came across this light-weight and plug-in-free solution:

.animate({opacity: 1.0}, 3000);

(Where 1000 is the time-length [in milliseconds] you want to wait for).

11th January 2010 0

I’m Back

I’m back. Welcome to my new website. I am also open to new projects.

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