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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.

3rd February 2009 1

PirateTube

I got this a while ago while surfing YouTube. Although comical in hindsight, it was rather annoying at the time. For quite a while, I thought the image was part of the video. That was until it started popping up on all videos I wanted to see.

PirateTube

A quick web cache flush managed to make that pirate walk the plank.

1st December 2008 1

Chicken Gyroscope

Nearly makes me want to get a chicken

20th November 2008 0

So I recently went to the dentist, that went fine, till near the end when my stomach started to churn.

I needed to go poos and quick! Fortunately, my super-toilet-resistance skills prevailed and I was able to keep the untimely wave of waste in. And so, I left the dentist in an epic hunt for a toilet.

Read on

28th October 2008 1

New Zealand on Air

New Zealand on Air gets a new logo after having an old ugly logo for years on end.

A nice fresh change, in my opinion.

28th September 2008 0

It’s horrible when a client doesn’t know how to pronounce your website’s address.

I must under-go rebranding as too many people mis-pronounce my website’s stupid name. It’s ‘be-three-en’ dammit, not ‘Brethren’ – which has been what most my clients have been calling it.

Read on

16th September 2008 0

Fact of the month

Far out -- You know how some pens with those detachable caps have those holes at the end of them? Do you know what they are there for? Do you want to know?

They are so babies or adults don't suffocate when they swallow the cap.

14th September 2008 0

I have big ears

...which means that I cannot listen to music through my headphones for extended periods of time, which is depressing.

9th September 2008 0

Chrome will not pwn

Because it is simply too simple.

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