2009 January

Spotify goes sour – as expected

01/2009

“This (video|song|image) is not available in your region”

The prior notice is probably one of the more hated on the Internet, enraging people on such popular media streaming websites such as YouTube and various major TV networks.

As many have dreaded, the day has come when Spotify, the ad/premium account-funded music streaming service, has announced that limitations are being imposed on their music library, restricting some songs to be played in only select countries.

The reasons for… ☞ Read on, read on ☞

Revent all ye jQuery scripters

*** NOTE *** After jQuery 1.3 introduced Live there is no need for this function.

I recently wrote a small plugin for jQuery for simple reattaching of events on newly added content to the DOM (i.e. from an AJAX request).

The plugin, named Revent (both as a pun on the word repent, and as a contraction of re and event, yes I’m silly), is basically removes an the event in question and adds it again – albeit roughly but… ☞ Read on, read on ☞

Post-excuses

BRAND SPANKING NEW

I read somewhere that personal websites were dead and blogs were the new deal, so here, a few years late, and a new, totally conformist blog about life, web development, silver sprayed stuff (mostly hair), and Arnold Schwarzenegger-christmas-decoration-angels is formed.

The previous, very pink version, of satf has been replaced by a very swell rebranded version featuring a lot of green and yellow-brown colours, and supercool generated images. There is also a lot more love in the design and… ☞ Read on, read on ☞