I was checking the Wired website and came accross a couple of interesting stories. Firstly one linking to this blog. It purports to be the tale of somebody on the run. the article gives quite a bit of background and, although I reckon it’s all a hoax, it looks like a good read. This article about a race for self-driving vehicles over a 250 mile route is also really interesting.
If you are ever looking for information about a domain or an IP, this site seems to have lots of interesting searches and interesting bits of information.
Sean Voisen is a very nice man. His blog has long been part of my daily blog reading for quite a while. As part of my whole blogging experiment I’ve been trying out his MTCodeBeautifier Plugin for Moveable Type. It allows me to post actionscript and have it appear beautifully formatted and colour coded, like so:
// returns true if file is on specified server.
// returns false if file is not on specified server.
// server format - http://www.myDomain.com
function atHome(myDomain){
if(_root._url.indexOf(myDomain)==0){
text1=true;
}else if(_root._url.indexOf("file://")==0){
text1=false;
}else{
text1=false;
}
return text1;
}
Anyway, I couldn’t get it working. I’d been over everything and couldn’t get it to work. My code just disappeared from the page – it wasn’t even in the html source. I tried all I could think of, and even asked around for help (Kristine tried to help me – thanks for that) but to no avail. So i finally emailed Sean, not wanting to bother him, but seeing no other way. He wrote back within a few hours, with the exact answer to my problem. Seems I was putting the plugin language as “Actionscript” rather than “ActionScript” (spot the capitalised S). now it all works beautifully. So I just wanted to a) say a big thanks to Sean and b) post this so that it hopefully gets googled and helps someone else.
I was surfing the Manbottle site as I do occasionally, and came across this. It’s some sample 999 calls (the same as 911 in the US) which are totally idiotic. one of the interesting things that there is the option to view the files using the flashplayer, including subtitles. This will get around a lot of plugin variation issues and let the creators synchronise the subtitles to the souds. Plus it’s kind of amusing what some people consider a 999 prioity.
While looking around at various blogs I saw on An Architects View that there is a little link with each post to the archive of that post’s category type.
I really likesd the effect, but hadn’t been able to do it. Being a relative MT virgin, I thought it must be a plugin or something, but I saw on a list somewhere someone pointing to the MT documentation where this was discussed. The problem was that I could get it to list my current category, but not link to it.
I kept getting this error message:
You used an tag outside of the proper context
I finally found the answer on this discussion on the moveable type support forums. It’s the small snippet of code towards the end of Maddy’s last post:
<a href="<$MTEntryLink archive_type="Category"$>#<$MTEntryID pad="1"$>"><$MTEntryCategory$></a>
I was working with some Flash files that someone had sent me. They included some runtime shared library objects. The problem was that when the files were played in IE, the memory usage just kept increasing (IE6, 6,0,79,0 player, win2k) The files were as simplified as possible, but it turned out that it was the path declared in the properties which were causing the issue. The swf was linked as “./lib/lib.swf” when I changed this to “lib/lib.swf” it all worked beautifully, without the “memory leak”
Terry Tate: Office Quarterback. One of the funniest things I have ever seen.
To test something out today, I was furiouslty searching for a sample windows application to which I could pass a flag, a command line parameter. After searching high and low in google, I finally hit the right combination annd ended up on this site:Serenity Windows 98 Program’s Command Line Parameters and Registry Settings I’m posting this to see if it helps anyone else out, and hoefully to be another linkto find this link in google.
It was my birthday recently, so I treated my self to a Samsung T100 mobile phone. I’ve had an a300 for the past year, and I really like it. I like the way it is layed out and what it lets me do. So once my contract with T-Mobile was Up, I was looking to upgrade. I was on a contract (16 pounds a month for 60 free landline/t-mobile minutes) and wondered about staying with T-mobile. they wanted to charge me 100 pounds for the phone I wanted. No thanks. I went to Mobileshop.com, where I got my MP3 player from, and paid ?9.99 (plus the same amount to port obver my number). My new contract is more (32 pounds) but I get 200 free minutes to any network and 100 free texts, so I reckon it’ll work out nicely!