Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Simply AMAZING Actionscript tutorial site

News: March 17th, 2008

Anyone with a little (or indeed, a big) hankering for Actionscript should check this site. This guy has put a big wadge of time into making my life as an Actionscript coder moving over to AS3 sooooo much better. He has created a whole mess o’ tutorial videos covering both basic and advanced techniques, including […]

Adobe’s secret training workshop

News: March 20th, 2008

Just in case you’ve never seen it, Adobe has a great mini-site called the Adobe Video Workshop with all sorts of great video tutorials on it.
If you’re interested in learning any of the major Adobe products, are looking for an update to CS3 and aren’t sure where to start or simply have 10 minutes to […]

Happy Birthday, Robbie Dangerous…

News: March 23rd, 2008

… and congratulations to your new parents. Don’t be too hard on them, eh?
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So this is Spring…

News: March 23rd, 2008

Well, I woke up this morning to feed the dogs at about 7.30am and it was a lovely, clear if cold morning.
When I woke up again at 8.30am to be greeted by these scenes (click for larger images).

Maybe there’s something in this global warming… or cooling… heck, I dunno - something.
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… and now it’s a balmy early spring day

News: March 23rd, 2008

This is my road now. This weather is futs.
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Getting things done

News: March 26th, 2008

wow - I thought technology was supposed to help us achieve our goals but between Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, Adium, irc and this blog, I barely have enough time to scratch my… head.
It’s all fun though, eh?
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watched the Grumpy Guide To… Teenagers last night

News: March 26th, 2008

It really is one of the best things on British telly at the moment, in my opinion.
Basically it consists of lots of middle aged minor celebrities moaning about a particular subject, in this case teenagers. The people they interview for the show are brilliantly funny, quick-witted and wickedly observant and generally will have me in […]

Darkest Star has gone into version 2

News: March 28th, 2008

The Darkest Star online boutique for art, design, photography and fashion that I designed and actionscripted (back end was handled brilliantly by Dean at Black Poppy) has gone to version 2 and I’m really chuffed with the result
Come take a look, here.
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Bloggers down on marketing - who knew?

News: March 29th, 2008

It’s come to my attention today that the brilliant gamesblog, Kotaku, is really giving the marketing departments of the focus of their attention a bit of a beating which I think is a little out of their remit.
Exhibit A - The Silicon Knights Too Human teaser mockumentary
Link - I thought this was a brilliantly produced, […]

And the award for the best name on pownce goes to…

News: March 30th, 2008

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Brilliant. At least until I find another one. ADD is a bitch…
Oh look, a butterfly…
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