I have always learnt how to code by example. I find some one else's code open it up have a look around, and start hacking. But every once in a while I'll come across some code that has been obfuscated. It has never stopped me in the past, and usually I've taken a long and laborious way to make it readable again.

Well today, I was feeling particularly impatient with the JavaScript I wanted to open up. I looked through my Firefox plugins and found nothing, so I then googled for a solution. To my surprise I found something extremely simple and elegant.

alert(function showMeTheCode() { yourJSgoesHere });

The "yourJSgoesHere" is of course replaced with the code you want to unobfuscate. Firefox will then print you an alert with neatly formatted JavaScript. Enjoy!

After reading Web socialites succumb to ‘Facebook fatigue’ –
Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent – The Times –
February 22, 2008, I'm no really surprised at all. I have been involved in a number of social networking sites now, MySpace, Tribe, LinkedIn, OpenBC and a host of art sites, that when I joined Facebook, I found their host of add on applications quite annoying. I did like its interface far better than MySpace's terrible and ugly chaos. But after a while, I found that it offered nothing really new. It was painful to build up a profile from scratch again, when I'd already done it so many times before.

This is where the VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) project is interesting. Instead of all of your personal information being locked away in someone's proprietary platform, your data stays with you. Which means you retain ownership and control over it, and you don't have to go through the painful process of rebuilding it, every time you are invited to some "new" social network.

Adriana Lukas blogs regularly on the subject. 

A new Australian chip small enough to be embedded into home and office
equipment promises wireless audio and video transfer at up to 5
gigabits per second, ten times faster than today’s solutions at only
one-tenth the cost!

NICTA’s new chip promises true wireless revolution –
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt –
Friday, 22 February 2008