I don’t normally dedicate a post to music videos,mainly because I get hits from people who don’t actually want to be on my site, but I liked this one Lyrics after the jump:-
The artists web site can be found over at ricardoautobahn.co.uk Read more
I haven’t used Photoshop since version 6, back when I first started as a Web Dev, and I’ve been meaning to replace my twitter background since I signed up.
This weekend I Thought I’d bight the bullet and just knock up a simple background, I used the very helpful tutorial over at Spoon Graphics to give me a leg up and even though mine looks similar I did try and make it a little different.
I did however get a little stuck when it came to the bit where I had to do a knock out mask for the Polaroid so my picture was displayed without cutting up my photo to fit, enter you suck at photoshop to the rescue.
Anywho… Have a look and leave me a comment 
Today I went on a slight rant at work when I saw this article from computerworld.com titled Microsoft: Killing IE6 ‘not an option’. Now I like windows and all the neat stuff I can run on it, Incontinent Exploder 6 is not one of them in fact I’d go as far as to say I jolly well dislike it.
I tweeted a link to the story and to the ie no more campaign site I also changed my twitter avatar using the twibbon.com campaign for IE6-Must-Die.
And that brings me to my point in the WordPress theme I’m working on for this site I’ll be adding a few ie6 specific additions, there will be a banner warning you that you’re using an outdated browser, and the comments will be locked out to anyone using the offencive beast.
That’ll learn’me…
What do you think, let me know in the comments.
I found this today, Seeing as I’m using both Jquery and wordpress more these days I thought I’d start linking to people who help me understand it better
I found this rather interesting today :-
Sad fact is that Marta Kagan had to do a second “What the f**k” one year later is a painful reminder that the people that make decisions about products & marketing still have no clue what social media is.
Like I’m one to talk 
Sorry about this I’m working two blogs, I had to get another job, I’ve been working on for projects at home and I’m still skint and in need of a government handout.
Apart from that I’m fine how are you?
The past two and a bit weeks I’ve been working in Bristol again, the only funky thing to report is working on a Google maps thingy with Jquery, I’m just waiting for the design guy to finish coloring it in and then I might nick the css and show you all here
I’m working on a new version of Dodge, still only a point release but a huge improvement.
I’m keeping busy, more as it happens…
OK I was looking for a plugin for my other site that would work like the social-network-bookmarking-thing-a-me-bob I have at the end of each post. except for the rather lovely GameDevKicks.com, Casey Young as keyed one by the imaginative name of “GameDevKicks Kick It Plugin“.
Unfortunately it didn’t work so can’t use it. But it did get me to thinking that I could probably do my own, seeing as how i used to be quite good at that there PHP stuff. So to get me started I thought I’d tweak one of the plugins I’m already using.
Enter “WP-Memory-Usage” written by Alex Rabe for checking the total memory being used by his WordPress install it’s a great plugin and all I wanted to do was tweak the colour for the usage bar on the Dashboard it only took me about an hour, and that was only because I wanted to read and understand what it was doing, WordPress has a pretty cool framework. I’m hoping to start working on the GDK plugin tomorrow, after I finish the fonts tutorial :-/.
I’ve spent this weekend working on my new site that will run parallel to this one, called http://xnagamer.co.uk/ this will be the new home for my XNA & game development stuff, nothing there yet but I’ll post here when I have something to show….
WordPress Update to 2.8, atahualpa update to 3.3.3 and the best one XNA update to 3.1 Avatars and Video 
Also we are now working on “Xbox LIVE Indie Games” it’s better that “Xbox LIVE Community Games” but the sooner they drop the LIVE thing the better we’ll all be.
Any-who off to bed now it’s my last day at this job tomorrow
I have to give a big THANK YOU to @clingermangw and @TehGrumpyDude over on Twitter and MattChristian from the forums @ xna.com also efilnukefesin over @ ziggyware.com and of course zygote for his comment in my tutorial post that started my questioning yesterday.
I posted a question on both the creators forum and on ziggyware which was :-
Let me know what you think, Ziggy said :-
the article is hard to read in its current format
But I don’t know what I could do to improve it…
Please Help.
And I got some very good feedback regarding the tutorial, mostly that the flow of the article was broken because you have to click the thumbnails to see what I was on about and that I didn’t give any reason for why I was doing what I was doing, and the table layout didn’t help with things and the code wasn’t explained…
This was all good news to me because it gave me something I can work on. I’m going to put the Platformer on hold for now, I might come back to it at a later date.
So I’m going to go back to my strengths in that I’m going to go through a few of the projects in the XNA content catalog pull them apart and try and tweak them, the one I’ll start with is the chase & evade project, mainly because I used it as a base to test an idea that needed about 1,000 objects and I got about 2fps so it needs some work
Well that’s what I’m going to be working on next, and by the way I got a new job
