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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 0

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 0

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).

Read on

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.

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