In Soviet Russia...
A court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has established that Deep Purple, who gave a concert in the said city, by doing so have violated their own rights to their songs.
The court declared that since the rights of all foreign performers are represented in Russia by an organisation called "The Russian Authors Society", it was illegal to hold a concert without agreeing it with the organisation. The band themselves did not give their consent to be represented by the said organisation, neither they were even aware of its existence.
The court has ruled that the organisers of the concert (a local Russian organisation) are to pay a fine of 450 000 roubles (approx. 14 000 USD). The money ($400 after legal fees) is then to be transferred to Deep Purple as a compensation for their violation of their own rights.
Go Russia!
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Flash - Bubbling Events
First off, the solution to a little flash problem: say you have parent and child, and you want both to have the same event listener. But you don't want the parent receiving an event that occured on the child. So what do you do?
Stop the event from "bubbling" up to the parent from the child. This is done with a call to stopPropagation(); after the child has processed the event. Dummy example:
mcChild.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, handler,false,0,true);
function handler(e:MouseEvent) {
//handle event
e.stopPropagation();
}
Very, very easy, but it eluded me for the longest time. Oh well!
PHP, One Piece & Movs
This is the first post I'm writing in the browser - the site is now fully PHP/MySQL and I can update it here, which is nice. Bye bye dreamweaver. I'll be uploading some more pages after a while, but first up is adding some more functionality to the site, such as dynamic image uploading and an archive - and maybe a guestbook of some sort too. I'm adding a temporary link here (until I find someplace better) to
000webhost.com, really nice webhost - 99% full support for PHP & MySQL, whereas most other free webhosts have a 5 mile long list of disabled functions. But not here!
Started reading
One Piece not too long ago, and I'm now completely hooked.. insanely fun, if you like shounen/manga. Go
Luffy!
I have of course seen a few movies lately as well:
- Star Trek - Aaaaaaaaagh. Typical Hollywood, below average in entertainment value and with a plot you can guess within 5 minutes. _Not_ recommended(unless you're a masochist. Then go ahead).
- Cloverfield - Pretty decent sci-fi movie, if you don't include the actor screaming "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT" in the equation. Deserves a 7-8/10 without thinking particularly hard on it.
- Earth - MUST SEE. Epic documentary about animal life on earth from january to december. I'm sure I've never seen so many spectacular scenes in such a short time before - for instance: happy elephants(imagine that), a shark jumping a good 2 meters above water and newborn polar bears learning to walk!
Misc. news
Kinda sad to write news about what I'm doing, to myself. But oh well. Just updated the site to work a tad better with IE(what a shitty browser!). I also finished the first test in Linear Algebra, learned MFC, and am running headlong into shell-programming and PHP(which is brilliant, it's like going from Notepad to Word).
Considering making some reviews for games, since I've found a lot of GREAT games lately - Freedom Fighters, Freespace 2, Abe's Exoddus, Moto Racer(1), Giants: Citizen Kabuto and Baldur's Gate 2. Awesome, awesome games.
JavaScript!
Ok, so I just updated the site with JavaScript rollovers instead of CSS-rollovers.. and it's unimaginably relieving. I got a lot of weird bugs with CSS, but everything is working (as I want it to, that is) with JS. I've also finished watching Dreamweaver 4 Essentials(little did I know I'd only end up using it for a couple of weeks), and the next items on my ever-growing to-do list is then:
- Make a JavaScript dropdown-menu on the site
- Learn animation in Maya
- Complete the course on Linear Algebra at youtube
- Learn server-side scripting from scratch, PHP
- Learn MFC from scratch, 1100 pages to go.
- Make a space-shooter game, preferably in DirectX.
- Read book about Windows shell programming, 650 pages to go.
- Read Math For Game Programmers, and after that The Black Art of 3D Game Programming
- Make a (good) 3D game, something fantasy-ish would be great.
Until next time!
Frst Pst
Alright, the site is up, and this is the first I'm writing! I can write a lot of weird stuff, but I should probably try not to scare the shit out of those reading. So I'll just list a few cool pages/links you should check out:
