blogz0r ___ v57

I’d like to say that 2008 will be packed full of informative, fun and witty blog posts here at blog dot deebee, but that’s unlikely and you know it.

I may as well come out and say it now so you’re not disappointed when it gets to June and all I’ve posted are some notes about some code to myself and a song or three no-one likes.

On a serious note, I am very busy at the moment what with stuff and that, so will have some things to post about soon (fingers crossed!).Here’s to the future!

Oh, and here’s a wicked remix of a Pull Tiger Tail track I found. The bassline is awesome:

Another great Leeds band, Middleman, to break up my shitty last posts. It’s upbeat pop mainly. Nowt wrong with that.

Listen to Middleman – Good to be back

I’m sick of always losing the bloody URL for Microsoft’s MSXML documentation (I swear it keeps moving), so I’m posting here for my own reference.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms764730.aspx

New none-boring blog post coming soon

I’ve hacked a quick jQuery extension to allow you to overload the toggle method to allow more than 2 toggle events. It’s not exactly rocket science but I need to be able to give an element three toggle states and the built in version only allows two.

Simple state extra toggles separated by commas like normal:

jQuery.fn.extend({
toggle: function() {
var a = arguments;
return this.click(function(e) {
if (this.lastToggle == undefined || this.lastToggle+1 >= a.length) {
this.lastToggle = 0;
} else {
this.lastToggle++;
}
// Make sure that clicks stop
e.preventDefault();
// and execute the function
return a[this.lastToggle].apply( this, [e] ) || false;
});
}
});

jquery.multiple_toggle.js

UPDATE: Multiple toggle states are now supported natively in jQuery 1.2.6.

I’ve just been reading this BBC article outlining the possibility that the human race may split in two, making a “genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass” to emerge in 100,000 years.

I’m a scientist (beer studies), and my theory suggest that this estimate may be slightly out, suggested by my carefully sourced evidence that will be published* in New Scientist sometime in the coming weeks:

* lies

Jof mentioned this lot a while ago. Thought I’d chuck some of their 8 bit terror up here as I like it.

Any word of more releases? Worth seeing live?

Crystal Castles – Untrust Us

New bands come along each year but they generally don’t excite. Foals are amongst the few that do.

I was gushing about iForwardRussia! a year back (and I still am – “Give me a wall” was my favourite album of 2006 and still gets a fair bit of play through the day from me), and if Foals keep delivering the tunes they’ve been slowly pushing out, I suspect it may be the same with them.

I think they come under the genre of “Math Rock” (whatever that means), but any jutty guitars, shouts and blips can be called whatever it likes as far as I’m concerned.

Listen to Foals – Mathletics

I’ve closed the tour blog off for good – it was meant to be for when I was travelling and ended up being filled with the crap that should be here.

Enjoy. Or not!