Christmas time

Wishing you a blissful Christmas.

"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." - Charles Dickens

Virtual funnies

A virtual trip around the recent blooming of the social networking websites (predominantly facebook, hi5 and wayn) can sometimes really crack you up. I am particularly referring to those comments on the right hand side of the screen which users can post on other users' profiles and which are usually machine-generated, all the more eating out the social concept on which those websites are based. I have reproduced some of them hereunder, with the intent of lifting your spirits high up beyond the sky's limits:

- 97% of u wont send this:When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of u.If u're a part of the 3% that care send to 10 ppl and c wat He does 2nite;

- Looks like it's a HUGS WAR

- YOU BETTER HUG ME NOW!
Pass this hug to all of
your FRIENDS and back
to me, see how many
you get back!
~~~***HUGGGGG***~~~;

- ♥●♥ Xanna dolorr ?? kolloxx il-fuqq ghandek hiqhiq .. ♥●♥

- (This is for girls only, otherwise delet it)IF YOU HAD ME ALONE... LOCKED UP IN YOUR ROOM FOR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS & I HAD TO DO WHAT EVER YOU WANTED ME TO, WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH ME? TELL ME IN MY INBOX .. CUZ ITS A SECRET... THEN SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS... YOU MIGHT BE SUPRISED WITH THE RESPONSES YOU GET. THEY COULD MAKE YOU LAUGH OR EVEN SMILE .. LOL.IF YOU DONT REPOST THIS YOU ARE A COWARD AND ARE TOO AFRAID TO SEE WHO ACTUALLY LIKES YOU.SEND THIS TO EVERYONE....

- THE HOLIDAY MOON WAR HAS STARTED, MOON EVERONE U CAN EXCEPT THE ONE WHO GOT U. KISS MY ASS I GOT U FIRST! :-]

- Believe me I'll follow this could be easy I'll be the help whenever you need me I see you hustle wit my hustle I Can keep you Focused on yo focus I can feed you.

- ...u hekk hu...zvergnajtlek il-hajt

And there's also Mortimer the travelling bear in disguise.

New website layout

It’s been more than a year since I last altered the layout of my website and I thought maybe the time has come to give it a new face lift by actually including some lighter colours. The thought of reconstructing everything got me lethargic everytime I executed flash. Last summer I started making some initial drafts which looked crap compared to this one and which eventually kept pulling me back to the drawing board.

I also kept on learning new commands in actionscript (the loadMovie command is a real bitch – avoid using the _root thingie for your own sake) which had me confirming how powerful this programming language is compared to html for example.

Go on now, please yourself! :)