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What has happened to basic common sense?

The "7/7" London bombings killed 52 people.

Based on cancer mortality statistics for 2005, which is all I could find, ~422 people died here because of cancer that day. Another ~422 the day after. The day after that, it claimed yet another ~422.

Some rotten Mazda-driving git wrote off the lovely 56-reg blue Elise. So they gave me a lovely 08-reg red one! Hooray!

A Golf pulled out in front of me. So I hit it. Then I got a BMW120i courtesy car. And now I have an Elise courtesy car. Nice.

I was looking for something on my web server (Jove's PHP minesweeper, the ancient link to which on my toys page is broken) this morning and came across a little code folding exercise from a couple of years ago. I think its about time this humble little project received a mention. Grab the full source, or write an adaptation of it, here.

Also lying around was a script I wrote for mIRC many years ago, which protects channels from flood attacks. Looking at it today, ircdam 3 is more comprehensive and user-friendly than any other I've seen.

That's right. I've went and written something many would consider, probably rightly, to be quite bizarre: a particle engine in Javascript. I haven't as much experience in Javascript as I'd like, so don't expect great quality code, but it does have a few hacked-up optimisations and it runs at a fairly imressive speed considering the platform. I've slapped a GPL license notice in there, so muck about with it all you want, if you can read my god-awful code.

Read on....