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Archive for November, 2006

del.icio.us-like Text Grow jQuery Plugin

If you're familiar with the del.icio.us tag search box, then you'll know it will grow with the length of the content you enter. This is particularly useful for search boxes or tagging entry boxes, though the only downfall (I think) of del.icio.us's entry box is that it can grow to become wider than the entire page [...]

Auto input grow with CSS (but is it a bug?)

I've been looking at the del.icio.us auto text grow functionality recently, and noticed you can achieve a similar effect in CSS, but only for IE. I originally thought this was a bug since it didn't work in Firefox or Safari.

Fancy Dress?

You expect fancy dress parties to be like all those movies you watched when you were young: perfectly designed, quality look and quality fit. Why is it then that when I try to find an 80s suit to go as Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice am I presented with an array of flares, lavender suits and [...]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (4/5*)

I hadn't seen Borat before, but I knew of him. I saw Ali G Indahouse and hadn't seen the TV show and loved it (it's a great hang over film). Borat is sent away to report back to Kazakhstan about the greatest country in the World: USA. Somewhere along the way he loses his [...]

The Last Kiss (3/5*)

Finally, they've made a film about that grey area. The Last Kiss is a film staring Zack Braff (Scrubs and Garden State) in his late 20s with a pregnant girlfriend, finding himself starring down the rest of his uninspiring life and wondering whether there will be any more surprises. His friends each have their own 'life crises' [...]

Halloween TextMate

For those who didn't update TextMate on the cutting edge update, here's what it looked like during Halloween.

Flattery

This last week has been a long a painful one - but no one really wants to read about me moaning about long hours. Instead, Friday I had a double dose of flattery - which certainly washed away any bad feelings I had about the preceding long weekdays.