Google Moon…

July 20, 2005 | Links

Not content with mapping the world Google have now turned their eye to watching ET with the new Google Moon

A Book Baton

July 18, 2005 | Entertainment, General

I have been passed a book baton by Phu Ly from IfElse, who is one of the few people who comment here (thanks Phu ). I suspect he saw me complaining that no-one passed me the musical baton that did the rounds not too long ago and took pity on me.

I read a fair amount of books getting through three or four a month, but most of them are action adventure/ fantasy affairs. Nothing too heavy, and simple enough that I can read them on the train. Notice there are no tech books mentioned anywhere. I rarely read them since everything I need is online.

Number of books on the shelf

My book shelf is an entire stand, it’s not big but it’s rammed full and the shelves are groaning under the weight. I’ve even had to stack the books two deep because I have so many. There’s …

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

July 17, 2005 | Harry Potter

So… anyone else read it yet?

I bought my copy late Saturday morning, there were loads of copies available, and a rather miserable looking witch handing them out. I bought my copy in Bexleyheath, which is fairly close to where I live, and Alan Rickman was due to make an appearance and sign copies of the book. I couldn’t be bothered to wait around (he was already late when I decided to go home) but I must admit, having now read it, there are a few questions I would like to ask him.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (HBP) was up to JK Rowlings usual standard. The story was incredibly easy to read (one of the reasons I finished it so quickly), and very well written.

Before we meet up with Harry (chapter 3) there are a couple of chapters that fill in gaps and refresh you on events …

Flash 8 - new feature demos

July 14, 2005 | Links

Since the release of the flash player 8 beta there have been a few, very clever people, who have managed to convert some flash 7 projects to flash 8 and demo the new features.

• Flash 8 Blend mode, Filter, and text antialiasing demos - The site is all in Foreign but the flash movies are in English
• Progressive JPG, GIF and 24Bit PNG with transparency loading support - This one took me a while to work out. You can move the different layers showing that you can load different file types (gif, jpg, and transparent png)
• Filter demo 1 and Filter demo 2 - 2 demos include flas…
• Drop Shadow and blur filters - with flas
• A collections of demos from theflashblog.com
  • random blur and glow demo
  • Proximity blur
  • Drop Shadow Angles
  • Tarbell Creation
• Flash 7 - 8 convertor - handy if you want to try …

Uk - Small Ads

July 12, 2005 | Links

Some very small ads from around the uk - made me chuckle.

Hardcore Grandma action

| Video Games

I thought my Nan was cool (she’s a silver surfer, and is currently enjoying Bubble Game) but this Grandma is in another league!

Real or not? I don’t know, but reading through it made me laugh more than once.