Ted Carnahan

I wanted to create some flashcards for my Jesus and the Gospels class, where the final exam involves being given a large number of fill-in-the-blank questions. I also wanted to try out JQuery, a lightweight Javascript toolkit that has fascinated me for a while. The result is quite impressive for very little work.

To add items to the flashcards, you mark up text that looks like this:

How now brown cow?

So that it looks like this:

<p>How now <span class=”words”>brown</span> cow?</p>

I inlined the JQuery 1.2.1 library, wrote a tiny bit of glue to make things look good, and the result can be downloaded here: BI190 Flashcards using JQuery.

Microsoft is completely thrilled that Windows Vista has been pirated half as much as Windows XP. They shouldn’t be. All that means is that Vista isn’t worth the trouble at any price. Typically the people making software available for piracy are more technically adept, and those people just aren’t as excited about Vista.