I was just reading this funny post over at Haacked's place [go read the post now, then come back here] about a guy who back in 1998 wrote a program on his laptop to calculate pi to the billionth digit and the calculation took 7 years! Long story short - he forgot to output the result of the calculation, and Phil suggests that possibly the bozo stored all one billion digits in a string and then forgot to display that string. Now, I know Phil meant for this to be a funny/amusing post... but my inner geek is just screaming too loud to...

Some Background A while ago, a smart guy that I know wrote a little post entitled "Adding Mouse Over Row Highlighting To Tables". In his post, Haacked showed us how to use Markup Based JavaScript Effect Libraries (via Jon Galloway) to add a little UI Goodness to your typically boring HTML Tables. I recently decided to use this nice effect in a project for work, and ended up building it out to be more robust and play nice with others (other CSS styles, that is). So, in the spirit of the OSS movement, I thought I would share my new...