Kicked out of Karate

Today I got permanently kicked out of both my Karate and Kickboxing classes. On Sunday we were sparring in the boxing ring and I ducked under Gareth’s right punch and came back with a right hook to the body. I think the fact that he was punching down towards my head and I was punching […]

Flash Hates The Future

Recently I sent over a few Flash 8 source files to a friend at his company. There was one main Flash .fla file and a few external classes stored in separate .as files. When they tried to publish them on their Mac they received a series of errors like this: They had one for each […]

Flash FLVPlayback Seperate Play and Pause Buttons

I’m working on a custom skin for the FLVPlayback component. The design requires a play button with a pause button next to it at all times. All the provided skins use the dual PlayPauseButton system. That’s where you have a play button and no pause button. When you press play it switches to become the […]

I am not a number, I am a free man

I may not be a number but I am now the top result for David Millington in Google, Yahoo and MSN for both worldwide and UK searches, have some of that my photographer doppelganger 😛

Major b2evolution and UFO issue

For the past few months I’ve been using Unobtrusive Flash Objects for writing the code required to display Flash in a HTML page. I’ve never had a problem with it until I decided to use it on my own site. The wiki side worked straight away but the blog consistently died in Internet Explorer 6. […]

Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly – if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind; and we are now reaping the whirlwind.

— Norman Tebbit