Archive for December, 2007

Christmas Actionscript

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Have I been working over Christmas? Yes, but I’m actually quite enjoying it and it will only do me good in the long term.
I’ve been getting Flash to communicate with Flash Media Server 2 over the break and it’s not short work.
I’m very new to the server side coding of ActionScript. I’m armed with ‘Programming [...]

Flash on a Mac

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Seriously, how does anyone get any work done when this program has about a 33% chance of crashing every time you preview or publish a movie. This never happens on Vista or XP (well it does, but once a day rather than 3 times an hour).
On the flip side we set up a new Vista [...]

Why Macs are rubbish, by Graham Robinson.

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

I’m going to lose some friends here I’m sure. But that’s what blogging is about right?
Lets get some simple things straight first
• We have increasing numbers of macs at work. But it is still under 5%
• I haven’t got past the ipod in terms of Mac experience
• I think Steve Jobs is cool
• Macs are pretty
• I am a Windows [...]

Prompt we are

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I’ve been ill the past few days. Poor me. But it seems that I’ll be better for Christmas! Yay!
But my parents did ask me to put some photos on Flickr about 3-4 months ago, so in the true Christmas spirit I actually remembered today. Whoops.
Rhoose Beach 2007

Batch files

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

For the non-tech a batch file is something from 1427AD (or somewhere around there) that allows you to write, in a text file, the name of a number of programs. When you run the batch file the computer will run each program, and when it ends it will run the next one.
In my job I [...]

Lacie FAQs

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

http://www.mediaguy.co.uk/lacie-ethernet-disk-mini-home-edition/

I’ve got a new hard drive to back things up on. Seeing as this theme doesn’t allow comments on the pages, only on the posts, I’ll leave this space for people to make comment.

New mattress tomorrow. And a hat

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

But the instructions are in Spanish! Oh no!

(from CollegeHumor)
Mattress has been really annoying us for a while. Might make us slightly less restless.