Canceling Xna

After a year of not using XNA creator's club and being generally morally opposed to the whole concept I decided to cancel it. Long story short this requires contacting xbox support (weeee). The only truly annoying part is how hard it is to find out this is what you must do and what the phone number is you must call.

It seems borderline unethical to not have a mechanism for canceling your account that is as easy as signing up.

jQuery bounding region plugin

While working on some javascript network visualization software I am coding for work I came up with a jQuery plugin function that calculates the bounding box around the query using offset() and width() and height() returning an object that has left,top,bottom, and right members.

(function() {
   jQuery.fn['bounds'] = function () {
     var bounds = {  left: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY, 
                      top: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
                    right: Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY, 
                   bottom: Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY};

     this.each(function (i,el) {
                 var elQ = $(el);
                 var off = elQ.offset();
                 off.right = off.left + $(elQ).width();
                 off.bottom = off.top + $(elQ).height();

                 if (off.left < bounds.left)
                   bounds.left = off.left;

                 if (off.top < bounds.top)
                   bounds.top = off.top;

                 if (off.right > bounds.right)
                   bounds.right = off.right;

                 if (off.bottom > bounds.bottom)
                   bounds.bottom = off.bottom;

               });
     return bounds;
   }
 })();