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One of the ‘cool’ little features I managed to shoe-horn into capitalradio.co.uk London Guide was a nice little jQuery plug-in that I called the “expando of win”. It’s a fairly simple piece of functionality but I’ve done it in a way that I’ve yet to see and is hopefully going to be a bit friendlier on performance by keeping DOM manipulations to a minimum. It can be seen live in a the wild on event pages such as the fairly bizarre sounding Body Worlds and the Mirror of Time held at the o2. Keep reading →

One thing that has been annoying me recently is the amount of cash that I seem to be spending on crap; mainly food crap. I’m generally fairly good with money and my standard technique is to take out a woad of cash at the start of the week (Saturday) and not spend anymore than that until the next Saturday (unless it’s been planned). Generally this seemed to work out fairly well - I hardly ever over spent but equally hardly ever had money left over to carry into the next week. As I didn’t plan to carry money over it wasn’t really a problem.

Since starting my new job (and getting a bit of a pay increase) I found that I could give myself a bit of extra spends each week. A few more pints down the pub, an extra side order with a meal out or an excursion somewhere could now all be mine. But as it happens I didn’t actually do or need any of this so the money started burning a whole in my wallet and was spent on crappy lunch meals that I don’t really need; money spending fail if you would.

The plan - to not take money out of the bank and use my cards for my planned spending. Will my urges mean that I buy crap on card? I really hope not but we will see. Equally has the price of living just increased and I actually needed that extra money??

Who knows, but I’ll be interested to see.

Thanks for reading a fairly pointless and uninteresting post (assuming anyone actually has).

So yesterday I posted my slides from barcamplondon5 to slideshare and as cool as they indeed are I’m pretty sure that the serious points are easily missed without some supporting information - which is why I am writing this post right now.

The main point I was trying to get across is that the web contains a lot of great content; but it also contains a lot of shit. To ensure that the good stuff gets the credit and exposure that it deserves and likewise so that the bad stuff gets highlighted as bad I believe that we must all comment on the bad that we see so that less experienced people don’t just blindly copy, paste and use it in their projects. This is even more of a necessity if the article is being promoted as a good one to read either through a good Google ranking or being linked to from a large magazine site or mailing list. Keep reading →