I was welcomed home last night by a big orange leaflet. It read… ******** Community Centre Skip Positioning (or something to that effect. YOUR STREET (but actually the name of my street), side of YOUR HOUSE, YOUR STREET.
Erm…. you’re going to be putting a skip at the side of my house… I THINK NOT. When exactly did you get permission for that?
Well, what did I expect? I bought a microsoft product, and it broke.
Got the “three red lights of death”, and error code 0102, which means unknown error.
Phoned Microsoft support at the weekend and was told it would be picked up within 5 working days. Got picked up Monday, and was told it would be 15 working days to get it back to me… Thats like… 3 Weeks!! Anyways… UPS turned up this morning, with a brand new xbox 360 for me !
Yay!!!
Dead Rising ordered.
Been playing with a bit of Flash recently on a new web build at work.
We’ve got a flash banner on every page, but no where to have a title for each page; so the design decision was made to incorperate the title into each flash banner.
This would be a pain in the ass usually – having to create new banners for every page – but dynamic text makes it simple!
I was rather impressed with the simplicity of doing it.
My example below uses flashobject.
Make your call something similar to:
var fo = new FlashObject("./images/test.swf?whattoputin=Welcome to My Website", "viewer", "708px", "110px", "6", "#FFFFFF");
fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
Now create a dynamic text area – this should be pretty large.
Give it an instance name on the properties dialogue, but also fill in the ‘var’ tag with whattoputin.
Et Voila.
Happy birthday Naomi :)
Whilst I’m here updating stuff…
The Punto is fixed, and Lucy can indeed eat an ice cream meant for 4 people.
I found this article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/01/digital_images/ on TheRegister very interesting.
It talks about how (with the influx of the web), photographs are being sold with complete rights rather than first rights meaning copyright can be passed-on / sold without the photographers wishes being taken into account.
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