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I just came across the webcomic xkcd, and laughed all of the way back to the start of the series. This one in particular is fantastic. But I actually think he’s pretty talented, too, as an artist:

I toyed with writing a piece about how Dilbert became rather crap during the week. The whole sending of Asok away was somewhat ordinary, I thought. Having said that, the latest one is much better:

I’ve got a heap of stuff in the toolbox script that does nothing anymore - at least on my site - so I think I might streamline it a bit by removing a large number of the functions that are no longer required. For instance, I don’t need to create Gravatars in JavaScript, since there’s a Smarty Plugin to do this - which also negates the need for the md5 stuff. At the moment, the script is 56k, which is a little too bulky.

Apparently, it’s one year since I moved permanently to Blogsome. I still love her as much as the day I met her.

I’m not sure where I read about this, but these images are awesome: Photos by Igor Siwanowicz

Found this one on Boing Boing, and just had to pop it up here: Apparently handmade by Patricia Waller.

Here’s a nice little bit of JavaScript that grabs the Trackback URI of the current post. I’m not quite sure how to use it yet. It would be nice to be able to automatically add this to the BlogThis link, but there’s no way to do so, since cross-site scripting is disabled.

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    document.body.innerHTML.split("trackback:ping=\"")[1].split("\"")[0];

The other thing that might be cool is to copy this to the clipboard, but I’m a bit loath to do things like that which are “invisible” to a user.

My computer decided that Daylight Savings was supposed to end last night (or rather, this morning), when in actuality it doesn’t end until next Sunday morning. I’m not sure if this is because of the Commonwealth Games, or whether it was just programmed in wrong. Apparently this affects Windows, too.

I just thought of a great addition to a sidebar: links in this post. Thus, a user would see a list of all off-site (or even on-site) links, and be able to follow one or all of these without having to go through all of the post. Probably going to be more useful on posts that are really long. Easy to do in JavaScript, but could be done in Smarty too.

I think I might rewrite all of this site’s scripting using a framework. Probably Yahoo’s stuff, that looks very cool: YUI.