Loser-X

Interesting article on the BBC about the Devil's Interval, otherwise known as the tritone. Its cool that Black Sabbath was mentioned, but come on, you have an article about the tritone and no mention of Hendrix's Purple Haze?

Wagner's music rocks by the way, even if he was an unpleasant individual.

Picked up this darling just a couple of days ago, courtesy the government of Singapore.

Its an Ibanez SZ320. The photo fails to do it justice.

Posing it in front of my other treasure, the CD collection. Fell in love with the tone and feel when I tried it, was a no brainer. The intonation was just about perfect off the shelf, and I did not need to adjust the action. It has a set neck, string-though-body design, mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard... and the bridge is a thing of beauty. Sustains forever. Aaaaaaa... you could go and have a bite and... aaaaaaaaa... you'd still be hearing that one.

Oh my ex-guitar, you have served me well, but your hardware is corroding, the frets are worn out, and your knobs and pickup toggle and other bits are falling off. And Marty Friedman endorses my new love. I'm sorry but it wasn't even a contest...

Now all I need is an amp that goes up to eleven.

This is unbelievable.

My fellow geeks, boycott D-Link products. Actively recommend against them. Spread the word.

Original open letter.

I needed a light-weight tabbing widget for one of the projects I was working on, and not finding anything satisfactory decided to throw one together.

The objective was to make it as simple to use as possible. The content to be tabbed should be marked up like so:

<div id="tab1" class="tabbable">1st tab</div>
<div id="tab2" class="tabbable">2nd tab</div>

Important things to note, IDs must be defined, and the class set to tabbable.

There should be an empty div to hold the generated tabs.

<div id="tablist"></div>

A call to initialise the script is made in the window onload event:

tabsInit('tab1');

There is only one compulsory parameter, and that is the default active tab. There are two optional parameters, tabNav and tabClass. tabNav defines the id for the HTML element to hold the tabs in and defaults to tablist if undefined, and tabClass defines the class of the tabbable content, which defaults to tabbable.

The script is built from the prototype $ and getElementsByClass functions as presented by Dustin Diaz.