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Originally uploaded by battez
i got off to a good start, but lost it somewhere during the archery and then of course, the pole vault which I hate…even qualified in the triple jump.
tom assures me the perfect angles are 35 41 and 45 with as much on the line as possible. If so a quite unrealistic third leap ensues. Gold medal for this game for playability.
Jul 05
Hi for anyone who has ever been to my website before, it was battez.org but I rather lacksadazeically (sick) omitted to renew the domain before it expired a few days ago, incurring a charge of $100+ or let it slide…so it has slid.
Anyway I wanted to move things to this Fianchetto domain, as that is the name of my musical releases that are forthcoming. It’s a chess term (natch) for a flank strategy - generally meaning a bishop on a long diagonal which seeks to control the centre. Wikiepedia has some contributor banging on about it.
Apr 27
saw this great band AlphaBeat last night - kind of S Club 7 with early Madonna and recent Madonna thrown in. Lots n lots of catchy tunes…
Apr 25
A really nice script for a basic cross fading slideshow in javascript was written by Andrew Sellick a wee while ago.
Along with others using the script I was suffereing from a behaviour in browsers where the images in the list items would be cycled through as stills briefly until the slideshow was ready to go (After they had all loaded). To fix this you
I think I have managed a suitable fix for the flash of the images that this script displays sometimes :
like another poster said - add the INLINE style to the LI elements, within your HTML
so LI style= “visiblity: hidden”
THEN in the script itself, add this in the init() for loop: (before the if(i!=0) bit:
lis[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
esentially when it inits the LI list items it sets them back to visible. Visibility is the key since until visible, the elements act as a placeholder.
can do the following, which looks much more slick:
Apr 23
…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.
Jan 31
made this several years ago (end 2003 /early 04?) as part of our Animation class using LightWave at University of Paisley - Multimedia BSc Honours . Nicolas Blanchard, David Gallagher and Sophie Godard - Nicolas really knew his stuff (like the textures and more fancy Lightwave effects) but I think we all contributed a fair bit too 
Wonder where they all are now ? ( I know about Dave though!)
Nov 07
A site by Infinite Eye for the new Glasgow Poetry Society: Vital Synz.
Really enjoyed the Oran Mor launch event, despite only snarfing one canapé…
Worth not staying in and installing Leopard on my new Mini for, even!