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In response to my earlier post on this. (more…)

Today I read in The Metro newspaper about the parents of a son who was murdered calling for the ban of the Playstation 2 game Manhunt, because they believe that the game inspired their son’s murderer. (more…)

At last Macromedia have released product update 7.2, code named ‘Ellipsis’, for Flash MX 2004 (& Professional).

A bunch of bug fixes, new code samples and documentation updates should make Flash development a lot easier.

Thanks to all the Macromedia folk who worked on this, I think it’s going to be much appreciated by the likes of me.

Posted to the FN-FORUM mailing list:

“I have just had to dust off Flash 5 after a year or so and have hit a problem. I have one group of four functions which are different animation effects, the other group of four sets different colours on these effect functions. Now, what I want to do is return a random function once an event occurs…how?!?!!? I have been trying for hours and not even google or the flash coders wiki seem to have any pointers.”

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For a short while I’ve been pondering constants (or complete lack thereof) in ActionScript 2.0 and had a bit of a brain wave at 5′o’clock this morning. Although there is no ‘real’ way to create constants, they can be faked using a little bit of creative classing. (more…)

My neighbours upstairs have just bought themselves a brand new TV, and it just so happens to be the exact same make and model as my own.

My TV cost just a hair under £400, which at the time was about £200 less than the RRP; theirs was less than half of what I paid, without managers’ and staff’s discount, and with the discounts applied meant that their TV cost them £144.

£144!?

Depreciation? I’ve heard of it…

Thursday just past, TheWife(tm) decided that it was time to re-arrange the house. Part of this re-arranging would involve me having to decide what I would do with the kaput 28″ widescreen TV that was sitting behind the bedroom door (as has been similarly employed for the past 21 months). (more…)