The author of the web comic Help Desk, Christopher B. Wright, recently switched from a Wordpress driven to a Drupal-powered website resulting in broken links in my “yet-never-2-be-released-and-famous” sidebar plugin Help Desk Embedded.

However the update was surprisingly easy, and everything should now be working as normal. The updates from Tuesday and Wednesday earlier this week have already been included, and the next step concerns the auto-update which I hope is still working as intended.

Even though you’ll get the latest comic here I strongly recommend checking out the Help Desk archive, and also another comic by the same author under the name Kernel Panic. Make sure to click his ads as I’m sure Mr. Wright is eager to get some encouragement (in the shape of $/€/£) after spending numerous man-hours converting his whole website

An absolute classic! If you’ve ever wondered how to get rid of the annoying telemarketer, look no further. Watch Jerry Seinfeld’s brilliant response to a telemarketer (from his show that is). This I believe is even more fun than just being rude and hanging up (or serving a few lines from the “you-owe-me-5-cents” vocabulary).

By the way, can someone please translate this into Spanish - as I’m eager to try this on the next guy calling from one of the phone companies down/over here.

After taking a closer look at the genius jQuery JavaScript Library I decided to post an example on how easy you can create a nice looking, space-saving navigation menu.

It’s nothing fancy (yet) but can easily become very good-looking indeed. Take a look at the tiny Navigation Menu Example and judge for yourself. The example is based mainly on the jQuery plugin: Accordion, and the only main difference is the up and down arrows included in the “slightly modified” CSS.

I’m thinking of implementing this plugin in my new WP theme (which is currently only available in my head) in order to display more info in less space. Another thing worth mentioning is that the code itself degrades beautifully on browsers without Java support as this only results in all menus being shown in “expanded” modus.

Note! If you’re wondering why I’ve set the anchor tag href to javascript:; it is to basically make nothing happen rather than the common do-nothing insert to use for the href property which is a pound sign (#). Even if that would work also it’ll also move the user’s scroll bar to the very top of your website, which can get quite annoying.

Update: Based on user feedback I’ve added an example showing how to add a second level within the list.

Well that’s not up to me to tell, but the following broadcast should give you a hint:

Take it for what it’s worth! Made me smile a Monday morning though

I’ve recently included AnswerTips on this blog, a new feature provided by answers.com.

AnswerTipsTM are small information bubbles that define any word when double-clicked. An AnswerTips-enabled site or blog means visitors get fast facts on 4 million topics provided by Answers.com when they double-click on any word, without opening a new browser or following outbound links. AnswerTips deliver instant definitions, explanations and facts including biographies, tech terms, geography, pop culture and much more.

Feel free to comment whether or not you find this helpful or not. I’ll keep it as long as it doesn’t mess up my code, interfere with Wordpress and my plugins or until you tell me otherwise.