I can now blog from iphone?

July 22nd, 2008

Wordpress have released an iPhone app for managing your blog. Seems to work pretty good so far. I’m going to try attaching a pic from yesterday’s biking trip.

photo

Here’s my tasty Ribena Smoothie ice lolly I had at the end of the day. It was delicious.

Shawbridge Flats, Pollokshaws, demolition.

July 20th, 2008

Carolyn and I got up early to go see the the Shawbridge flats in Pollokshaws get demolished. Here is a video courtesy of Carolyn and some pics taken by me. We arrived at 10:40 but they didn’t get demolished till 12:28. Maybe wasn’t the best idea to stand upwind of the demolition but you live and learn.

Shawbridge Flats, Pollokshaws, Glasgow. Before.

Shawbridge Flats, Pollokshaws, Glasgow. After.

Shawbridge flats. Before.

Nearly there...

Going...

Aftermath.

Dust. Run...

Tumbling along…

January 30th, 2008

I’ve been playing with Tumblr for the past few days. I have to admit I really like it. It suites my rather eclectic posting style. It makes it pretty easy to post images, movies and quotes. Emailing in images is particularly cool.

Check out my Tumblelog here: http://defmech.tumblr.com/

AS3 Buttons

December 6th, 2007

It’s learning Actionscript 3 time for me so I thought I’d share a few things I’ve discovered lately.

First: Buttons.

Here is an example of a custom button. There is the built in SimpleButton class but sometimes you just need to roll your own.

This assumes you have a linked MovieClip in your Library with it’s class set to TestBtn.

package {

	import flash.display.MovieClip;
	import flash.events.MouseEvent;

	public class TestBtn extends MovieClip {

		function TestBtn()
		{

			// UNLESS BUTTONMODE IS SPECIFIED AS
			// TRUE, YOU'LL GET NO HANDCURSOR
			this.buttonMode = true;

			// IF YOU WANT TO HIDE THE HANDCURSOR
			//this.useHandCursor = FALSE;

			// STOPS THE EVENTS BUBBLING TO THE OTHER
			// MOVIE CLIPS CONTAINED IN YOUR BUTTON
			this.mouseChildren = false;

			// ADD THE MOUSE 'ONCLICK' EVENT
			this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
		}

		private function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
		{
			// TRACES THE NAME OF THE BUTTON CLICKED
			trace(event.target.name, 'clicked');

		}
	}
}

How to make crystal clear ice!

October 19th, 2007

I love the internet. It’s got such useful info on it.

Quality Advert

October 18th, 2007

I like how you can get away with using “cheap” special effects because the video quality is low. Great idea.

Another cool advert - Fila: First Steps

October 12th, 2007

Playstation 3 is for dummies?

October 3rd, 2007

Playstation 3 - Dummy Console

Spotted today in a local Gamestation. No wonder they aren’t selling very well!

Two Cool Car Adverts

October 1st, 2007

Renault Crash protection: Ballet

Pretty cool advert for Renault. Must’ve cost a few quid.

Citroën: Rubik’s Cube

Again, another cool advert. Obviously CGI but pretty nifty anyway.

Bloody Weather!

September 27th, 2007

It’s beautiful weather here in sunny Glasgow today. But look what’s going to happen at the weekend! Typical, I want to get out on the new bike and Mother Nature has other plans!

Typical Weather

Update: Actually the weather turned out pretty good. Managed a half day at Carron Valley and a full day at Glentress.