Should we have a day of mourning in memory of the Pope? Yes, we should.
Have it next Sunday and encourage everyone to go to mass and pray.
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Andrea Bocelli .. singing by the Lee
Andrea Bocelli is to perform at Collins Barracks, Cork in July.
It was damn hard buying tickets on ticketmaster as their site bent under the pressure of people clicking “buy” all of a sudden.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they sold out within minutes!
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Fiery Foliage
Drake’s Pool, April 3rd.
Dingies
Drake’s Pool, April 3rd. Beautiful evening.
Rest in Peace
Pope John Paul II has died in Rome aged 84.
Photo Matt – A Response to the Noise
Matt responds to all the “noise”.
If I could devote one-tenth of the energy Matt does to Free Software I’d be happy with myself, so I’m glad he has defended himself so well.
I wonder if I’d be allowed to host a few Google ads for WordPress.org here?
Real Mortal Kombat
Real Mortal Kombat – one of the most popular posts on blogsome currently! At least it’s showing up in my cache list all the time so someone’s linking to it!
The Man Who Saved the World
Great story about the man, Stanislav Petrov, who didn’t press the button. *phew*
Folding
Thanks Kae for pointing this out to me again. I came across it before but never got around to trying it much.
This text file explains what it is and more.
Ming vs Flash
Flash, oooohhhhh! Saviour of the universe!
No, not the evil warlord and his arch enemy, but the ming library for PHP and other languages.
Take a quick look through the examples. Interesting eh?
Of course, I want to do something that Ming itself might not be able to do: create a static .swf file that can load image files given on the URL command line. I’ve gone searching and I’m grappling with new ideas. It seems I’ll have to write actionscript to load the image (that’s obvious if you think about it, Ming is out of the way when a .swf file is created.)
None of the examples I’ve come across accept parameters. 🙁
I’m going to look at this over the weekend if I find the time.
Some links:
- Google Search: flash tutorial
- w3schools
- Macromedia
- Flash and Javascript – very interesting.
- The bitmaps example on the Ming examples page offers a clue.
// add a third bitmap of xmms using MX actionscript
$strAction = ”
createEmptyMovieClip(‘picxmms’,10);
picxmms._x=150;
picxmms._y=100;
picxmms.loadMovie(‘http://www16.brinkster.com/gazb/ming/xmms.jpg’);
“;
$movie->add(new SWFAction(str_replace(“\r”, “”, $strAction)));If I could replace the movie URL with a variable I’d be sorted!
Later.. I should have asked Google first. Here’s how to pass parameters to a Flash file. The variable name gets put into the _root name space automatically.