jQuery.query = function() {
        var r = {};
        var q = Url.decode(location.search);
        q = q.replace(/^\?/,''); // remove the leading ?
        q = q.replace(/\&$/,''); // remove the trailing &
        jQuery.each(q.split('&'), function(){
                var key = this.split('=')[0];
                var val = this.split('=')[1];
                // convert floats
                if(/^[0-9.]+$/.test(val))
                        val = parseFloat(val);
                // ingnore empty values
                if(val)
                        r[key] = val;
        });
        return r;
};

/**
*
* URL encode / decode
* http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/

var Url = {

    // public method for url encoding
    encode : function (string) {
        return escape(this._utf8_encode(string));
    },

    // public method for url decoding
    decode : function (string) {
        return this._utf8_decode(unescape(string));
    },

    // private method for UTF-8 encoding
    _utf8_encode : function (string) {
        string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
        var utftext = "";

        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {

            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);

            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
            else {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }

        }

        return utftext;
    },

    // private method for UTF-8 decoding
    _utf8_decode : function (utftext) {
        var string = "";
        var i = 0;
        var c = c1 = c2 = 0;

        while ( i < utftext.length ) {

            c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);

            if (c < 128) {
                string += String.fromCharCode(c);
                i++;
            }
            else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
                i += 2;
            }
            else {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
                i += 3;
            }

        }

        return string;
    }

}