Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Check out this streaming Flash video of a "processing based program that reads incoming video from a camera and triggers particles from points of the video frame that have changed by a certain level. The result is an image that is fairly representative, yet disappears within moments."

Very nice

Jon 10:20 AM Permalink

Friday, November 26, 2004

Here are a few reasons to avoid Allan's music in Pitt Street, Sydney.

1. You will be served by arrogant retards who think they are superior even though it is obvious they are all failed musicians


2. If you buy sheet music and then try to return it the next day in perfect condition due to finding it was not really what you (or he/she if it was a present) expected and having purchased music on many previous occasions - you will be told "NO" by management and accused of pirating the material


3. Having purchased the book you will then be subjected to a half-arsed search by some part-time security guard at the front door who looks through all your bags and doesn't check the receipt to even see if the items match, in other words everyone is a presumed a petty criminal until he says different


4. If you try and enter with a secured lid drink, the part-time security guard will hold out his authoratitive arm and say "Hey, finish you drink first" at which point, if you are like me you will reply "piss off" and never return to the crappy shop again. And let me just point out that I am offended by the manner in which I was asked to finish my drink not by the actual rule


5. A pack of D'addario EJ16's will set you back $19, when you can buy a 3 pack online at the nice blokes at StringOut for $45.50 a saving of $4 a pack.
   

So if you are thinking of purchasing anything from Allan's music, Pitt Street, Sydney then I would think again and maybe think about looking for online solutions. For example if you wish to buy strings go to the previously mentioned StringOut and for online sheet music Amazon has an amazing range as does sheetmusic.com and the extra shipping cost is worth it just so you don't contribute to Allan's Music.

Rant over.

update
If you fancy a bit of a giggle read the 3rd comment, it had me crying with laughter thankyou whoever you are for making my day!

UPDATE 2
Billy Hyde's on Paramatta road, Camperdown is only a short ride out of the city and has friendly and helpful staff as well as a pretty good range of guitars. A little further down the road is Jackson's Rare guitars who are also very friendly (but pricey!) and then another new shop just a few doors down called Gallin's for all things Gibson, Epiphone and Martin. All friendly, all helpful and all worth a visit!

Jon 11:11 AM Permalink

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

I don't know how many people will ever need to use this code to be honest as most people would use php, cfm etc to do the work and rightly so, but I am working with some legacy code that needed a quick fix. The problem was retrieving url variables using Javascript, the solution was this excellent function posted by podlob on the SitePoint forum.

Jon 10:12 AM Permalink

Thursday, November 11, 2004

For those who don't know about the recent Chav phenomenon currently taking over Britain's youth check out Chavscum.co.uk and Chavtowns.co.uk

I think you will all agree this is my finest work to date, maybe I should quit while I am ahead.

Jon 1:13 PM Permalink

Friday, November 05, 2004

Yesterday I posted about the new Star Wars credit cards on offer, well for anyone thinking of applying for one please read bill's comments first so you know exactly what you are getting yourself into!

Jon 9:36 AM Permalink

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Here is a very clever alpha transparency plugin for photoshop called Eliminate White it is free to use has been incredibly useful with flash projects that need scripted colour changes, simply have an MC under the alpha image that changes colour via AS!

Jon 11:54 AM Permalink

I just received and email with information of how to apply for a Star Wars Credit Card You have the choice of a Darth Vader or Yoda card it would seem.

No annual fee.
6.15% APR† on all purchases
100% fraud protection, online and off
Earn GALACTIC REWARDS Points with every purchase
dollar you spend§§

Galactic Rewards! I wonder if that is anything to do with Richard Branson!?

Jon 9:47 AM Permalink

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Melbourne Cup day comes but once a year and for the second year running I picked the Winner, well to be precise I picked the same horse both years. Ladies and Gentlemen give it up for Makybe Diva!

Unfortunately I didn't have time to go to the TAB so I placed a bet online at BlueSQ and now they won't let me log back in because of some hacker attempt or something?! Hope my money is safe!!!!

Jon 4:32 PM Permalink

I used to watch Rainbow as a kid but I somehow don't remember it being like this!

Jon 10:18 AM Permalink

Monday, November 01, 2004

Well it has finally launched, homehound, I completely re-coded the front end to try and make it valid xhtml 1.0 transitional and css layout. There are a few issues as some data is pulled from 3rd party sites and therefore I have no control over things like invalid break tags.

Jon 11:53 AM Permalink