Author Archives: Schrodinger

Dojo: Simple code to dynamically generate widgets and add them to an element

By Schrodinger | June 28, 2009

Following on from the last post, this post is about the Dojo JavaScript framework, sorry guys.
Another snippet of code that might help you dynamically generate multiple widgets (hopefully from widgets that you’ve created) based on feeds or array data or pretty much anything.
It was an absolute nightmare to track down how to do this on [...]

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Help for Dojo JavaScript framework users

By Schrodinger | June 28, 2009

If you’re getting an error along the lines of:
Error: You cannot use the Render object without specifying where you want to render it’ when calling method

You need to fix the declaration in the widget you’re creating, as you’ve missed something really simple.
Copy the constructor from a pre-existing widget to make sure you haven’t missed anything.
Also, [...]

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PM Abrogates God, News at 11.

By Schrodinger | May 27, 2009

In a divinely inspired statement for further polly-rigging, glorious leader K Ruddkip has confirmed that he starts each day with a prayer:

KEVIN Rudd has revealed he tries to start every day with a reading from a prayer book.
But the PM admitted he does not always remember the Christian missive that life is not “all about [...]

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Linkbait and hotness, for your time.

By Schrodinger | May 20, 2009

Friend of the blog Tim Andrews has put together somewhat of a gallery of hotties that he says will save the liberal party.
Good way to waste 5 minutes.
*Hat tip* to the special ladies and friends of the blog that made the list. Be proud of your sexy nature, etc.
Lemon Out.

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Making your Idiocy Quotient

By Schrodinger | May 17, 2009

From Whirlpool:
It’s facts. Fluoride is a poison and used by Stalin and Hitler in prison camps to suppress people from rebelling. It’s so toxic that if a child eats a pea sized amount of toothpaste they can die.
Toothpaste contains 1500 times more fluoride then water.
Fluoride is a slow poisoning, so you wont notice effects. [...]

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Stockpile, but don’t panic?

By Schrodinger | May 1, 2009

Is this honestly helping?
Residents are advised to stock their pantries with drinks, including three litres of water for each person each day, dried and long-life food such as canned meals, toilet paper, batteries, candles, matches, manual can openers and water sterilising tablets. Analgesics, masks, gloves, a thermometer, disinfectant and prescription medications [...]

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If you only read one thing today, read this.

By Schrodinger | May 1, 2009

Ben Goldacre on the Aporkalypse.
The media is generally pretty dodgy, but distrusting the doctors in the scenario because of media hype is the worst decision you can make.

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Oh For fuck’s sake

By Schrodinger | April 29, 2009

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2555325.htm
THIS ISN’T PANDEMIC 2 NICOLA.
NICOLA ROXON: This is a precautionary step that the Government’s taken. The chief medical officer made the recommendation to me. We have other diseases that are already listed as quarantinable and they give the chief medical officer and then his delegate, for example at various airports across the country, the power [...]

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I would love to do some proper investigative journalism.

By Schrodinger | April 29, 2009

Any topics or ideas would be welcomed. Things you’re not too happy about, points that have been made or raised in the media that you’re skeptical of, flat earth news, etc?
I’d love for something to actually do within the next few weeks, so please, hit me up with some information, yo.

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Mortality, Swine and the culture of Self-Preservation

By Schrodinger | April 29, 2009

I’ve come across a disturbing trend in my usual grokking of the inter-spheres. As with everything I tend to report on, I need to have either read a great deal about it or be horrendously drunk in order to add my own special brand of commentary. In this particular instance I’m more from column a [...]

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