Flash Thumbnailer - with automatic thumbnail generation - As2/PHP
Here’s just a quick method of automatically generating thumbnails on the fly - no more fiddling about with photoshop to create thumbnails… :P.
Archive for January, 2008
At Chris’s in Stranraer…
Over the next few days me, Chris and Jo will be at Chris’s dog sitting… so I’ve spent today lazing about on his couch eating tasty veggy food and drinking lots of tea…
The date last night went really good, and me and Nic are getting on really good - watched three films; stardust, the mask and Juno - all of which are awesome, well minus the mask - it’s good but not as good as I remember it… special effect are awesome though for the time.
Right another cup of tea methinks… tara
Flash E-Card - as2 with download, video, shows and send to a friend…
Hopefully someone will find this useful, it’s the full flash source to an e-card I build for the band Driveby Argument, who are by the way utterly excellent, and I implore you to check them out. (I also did their wee flash website).
If anyone finds it useful even just a little bit then that’s awesome, and I’m glad to have helped. Although please don’t just create a carbon clone, for a start - where’s all the fun in that! If you do end up using it, send me a link or at least post a comment!
Right! Date tomorrow! - watching films…
Got a date tomorrow with an attractive lady - it was going to be a ‘bog-standard’ cinema trip - but everyone does that - and to be pretty frank, it’s boring! So I’m going to bring her round the house, cook her a nice meal (cheese, pasta and veggies! - methinks!) and watch some films (some of the classics - Hitchcock or some Kubrick) - hope she doesn’t read this - she won’t though as she’s computer illiterate, opposites attract and all that!
Aside from that, today I was practising with the other guys in The Darien Venture, which went amazingly - we’re planning to get an ep recorded in maybe April, providing we can agree on what songs to do - we also need to get a website up, other that what’s already there. tDV.
I’m in a fucking happy mood today.
Happy Boy
You know you’re a geek when…
…you lie in bed trying to find the ’shut down’ button.
…you laugh at things with the typefont ‘Comic Sans’.
…you find a nice girl in a bar/club, but realise you could go to town with the clone tool in photoshop.
…you cut your toenails to look like absolutly perfect Bézier curves.
…upon seeing artwork of any description you recognise the font but don’t want to say outloud for fear of being found-out an absolute freak.
…you start to think that CMYK might be a good name for your child - you’d pronounce it ’simique’.
…you start to despise friends that write you emails in Times New Roman.
…you start to despise the ’shitty pixel font’ used on your mobile.
…logging in on your friends PC you realise that facebook is in verdana - not Lucida Grande like your Mac.
…your girlfriend doesn’t exist during the days of Macworld / CES.
…you wonder what it would be like if Microsoft made cereal.
…you take a bite out of an apple, look at it and laugh.
…you laugh at the post on Digg about the fake MacBook Air manilla envelope but then secretly want it.
…the format war between HD-DVD and BluRay is of more concern than the current war in Iraq.
…as an Mac Fanboy you try and persuade PC’s users to see the light and come across to ‘the best os ever made’.
…as a PC user, you are determined not to move from vista, not because you think it’s better but as to not give those mac fuckers the self satisfaction.
…you think that ‘Office Space’ touched you more than any other movie.
…you visit Digg dot com first of all when you start up Safari/Firefox (FUCK IE! woot!)
Just thought of a new one…
…you write blog posts titled “You know you’re a geek when…”.
Yesterday…
Yesterday was a bit of a weird one. I got pulled out of bed at 8 to go in and meet a client at the t’office at 9… meeting went good - got the job… anyway, blah blah… fastforward 9 hours…
It’s been an entire year since a friend of mine passed away and his memorial get together was today; just a gathering of people got together at a local pub and played music, ate buffet and talked about him - it was in aid of amnesty international too so it was all the better. In the year it’s been since, I still don’t think I’ve accepted he’s gone - it just feels as though I’ve not seen him for a while, it’s really crazy to look at pictures of him playing guitar and hanging about with friends to think that I’ll never get to see him again… Matthew will always be 21.
They read out a few of his text messages he’d sent in the months before his death and I think that maybe hit the hardest - so much of them encompassed what matt was; a strange, slightly eccentric soul… someone who seemed confused with most of life’s conundrums, a guy whom just floated along singing simon and garfunkel (or pieman and largeuncle as he once told me) songs.
I don’t know why I’m writing this, but I am.
Anyway I got told last night that after trying to figure out what to put on his gravestone, they ended up with the Pumpkin’ lyrics:
“Forever frozen, forever beautiful, forever lost inside ourselves”
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On to something more positive… or well not really…
After I got in, I decided to curl up in front of the fire and ( after I phoned Cat for a bit) put on the tv (or the talking pictures box as we call it in the Borders ;)), and what should be on BBC1! - only the worst film ever made! (I actually found out later, it is actually the worst film ever made according to IMDB - ha someone in the comments called it - ‘One of the most powerful and thought provoking motion pictures of the 1970’s’ - Genius) - It was ridiculous… and it stars the now Governor of California - If anyone has had the misfortune (or fortune, depending on how much grass your dealer brought round) of seeing it, Hercules in New York is Arnie’s first (and, by goodness nearly last film), it is so terribly bad, I really don’t see why it was on BBC1 unless it was part of some huge in joke amongst the bbc contollers. An example line from it was -
“Arnie: I am hercules - what is money?
Taxi driver: y’know dough! money - bucks!
Arnie: Bucks and Does - why are you talking about male and female animals?”
He starred along side some wee freak who looked like the resulting product of a chance sexual encounter of Woody Allen and the Grinch - who’s lines tended to be whinny impressions of bad acting with jems such as -
“Freak - They call me Pretzy because I sell Pretzels down the waterfront - here have one.
Arnie - these are good - food fit for the Gods! (obviously making sure that the audience is aware of the fact that he is meant to be ‘Hercules’ - Son of Zeus! as opposed to some austrian man-titted cockfart).
Freak: - Yeah, I get them at Food for the Gods bakery…”
For fucksake.
I’m almost certain - give me 20 minutes, a bottle of ketamine and a cock-mounted pen I could come up with something not just a tad better, but something that would look like Shakespeare next too this. Anyway if you get a chance to watch this movie - claw your face off with the wrong end of a spoon.
Just one of those days…
I’ve had one of those realisation days, where by you have a bit of a revelation regarding something fairly big in your life; today mine was about friends. I realised that some people I was caring about maybe didn’t deserve it, I’d put too much into the relationship and really hadn’t realised until today (more specifically about ten, fifteen minutes ago - the time it takes to fire up wordpress and to make a milky coffee) that they completely and utterly were not worth it. I also realised that I maybe had sacrificed my friendships with other individuals that did completely deserve it, but either I hadn’t noticed, or had been thinking about the other person. Well, I know it doesn’t make much difference, as neither party know who they are, but it makes me feel a little better, but… Fuck off **********! and I’m really sorry ****** I love you more than you think.
