As with all things, the web tends towards fashions; for example, today's buzzword du jour is 'Web 2.0'. Although Web 2.0 started out as being about the way businesses were formed and run following the dot.bomb [say, Wikipedia.org's open contribution model versus Brittanica.com's subscription plan] it's now slowly morphed into the concept that everything bell-and-whistly is done within a group of opensource technologies -- even when it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and could be done with a different [and, alas, usually proprietary] technology in about a tenth of the time. All hail the evangelistas.

To that end, we end up with five page hack-filled tutorials about how to make a DIV with rounded corners that may or may not work in all browsers -- rather than the two-second version just using a table.

Oh, and you've got to come up with a doofus name so you can get a .com. That way you look like you might have been around for 10 years and didn't start up holding down a McBuck's table last week.

That's not what this is about. This is about me being lazy, as usual.

You will almost necessarily run into a use for a trick or two, surf the web for someone who has published how to do it already, and then try to modify it to suit your needs -- or make it actually work. And then, if you're like me, try to remember what the hell you did and where the hell you did it 25 sites later.

To that [other] end, what's here is a sampling of some code widgets that I've compiled and/or modified -- menu systems, CSS hacks, Flash dinguses, and more. It's not just for you, it's for me; that way I know where they are. Enjoy, and have another half-soy/half-decaf/mocha-almond-crunch frappaspressoffee. With sprinkles.