Thanks to the generosity of Coldforged, I’ve gotten a copy of Half-Life 2 for free! Unfortunately, I would have to run it in Parallels for now (only got a MacBook), and it sucks that I don’t have space on my hard drive for the 3.5 GB (!) that Half-Life 2 would take up.
So I guess I’m just going to have to squirm in anticipation of …
From last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert’s introduction line:
Error 404, introduction to show not found! This is… the Colbert Report.
Not as many laughs from the audience as his intro lines usually get, but I got this one…
Yess. Yess. Yess. Automattic (a la Matt Mullenweg) has acquired Gravatar, a “global avatar service,” which has been what can only be described as a crapshoot — sometimes Gravatars went down, or at best, were really slow, and for a while there the whole Gravatar site even disappeared.
Good things are already happening. From the post:
- We’re going to make all of the Premium features free, and refund anyone who bought them in the last …
It’s amazing what you can find on the Internet — and I just stumbled upon a goldmine of information that is hosted by Wikia, a hosted wiki service started by Jimmy Wales, most famous for, of course, Wikipedia, the wiki of all wikis. Just some gems I found.
I came across an article on Learning jQuery about animating the scrolling between same-page links (i.e. anchors). Basically one block of code does this automatically, but I came across a problem that it was trying to do the same for anchors on other pages, which obviously wouldn’t work.
The line in question:
$('a[href*=#]').click(function() {
This line selects all a elements with a hash (#) in its href attribute, but this also selects links to anchors on other …