Alison, that is so cute! How long have you been working on it? It looks like it was a big project.

finished... at last!


and now onto baby blanket... though, it's kind-of warm to be making something blanket-like... hmm...

For anyone that liked pandora, check out www.last.fm . I haven't used it a lot yet, but it seems pretty cool.

I like actionscript in Flash, its just a bit of a learning curve to figure out where everything goes to make everything interact and work right. Just shows how talented the people that produce good Flash.

But, if you like scripting with the vector graphics, check out SVG. Unfortunately it's not widely supported (yet?), but it's pretty neat to be able to script vector graphics without an editor by using XML and javascript.

It's funny, my job is to make things in Flash and yet I've never learned any action script until this last week when I started making the Champion City Records website. I love how flexible the language is though. I can write a very vague function that only makes reference to a potential object which I call "this". And then I can pass any object I've got into that function and the "this" applies to that object! SO SWEET. Plus I can nest objects within objects and access them in incredibly simple manners. It's ridiculously flexible. I love it.

I'm guessing this is old news for anyone who's programmed in visual object-oriented languages before... but for me (someone who's previous programming experience has been limited to various forms of BASIC, javascript and java) this is a BIG DEAL. It really just makes things so much easier.

turns out some of my work might appear on a nintendo console after all...

WE SHALL SEE!!! WE SHALL SEE!!!

fingers crossed!!!!

Speaking of Engadget, the UofA was mentioned in a recent article:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/canadian-ai-plays-perfect-game-of-checkers/

Yeah, I've been keeping up with Steorn.

To be honest, I don't know what to make of them. Their gimmick sounds implausible and impossible. I thought for sure they were hawking snake oil.

But then I read the dude's interview that he did with engadget, and he just sounded so candid about everything; even after all the harsh criticism he's getting.

I believe that he honestly actually thinks he created a perpetual-motion device. Even if it doesn't actually work, I think he truly believes that it does.

He's either a genius mistaken for an idiot, or simply a mistaken idiot.

For all our sakes, I hope it's the former, but I believe it's the latter.

I think Bush is trying to make dissent illegal.

So Par and Al...
Do I hear SNL in the itinerary?