What’s happen to you Digg?

26th July 2008 | 0 Comments

I was just reading about California banning the sale of trans-fats on Digg and I was shocked to see the majority of the comments were against it. The commentators were claiming it infringes on their rights and they didn't want the government babysitting them. Now I hate to lump people into groups, but this is classic Libertarian thinking and its pretty naive of them. Trans-fat are a public health hazard that have been linked to coronary heart disease. They only exist because they're cheap. They're like the food equivalent to asbestos, but I'm sure that group would defend their right to buy that crap too. I remember when Digg was geeky, but now it seems to be home to a bunch of political extremists and that just plan sucks.

Working with Embedded Assets in AS3

12th July 2008 | 0 Comments

I've been working with embedding SWFs in a pure AS3 project using the Flex 3 IDE and I ran across a little problem. All the examples just embed a SWF or JPG and use them directly on the stage. While this is fine for most instances, I needed to change the value of the TextField in my symbol. Embedding just a SWF won't allow you to do this. You have to use a symbol within an embedded SWF. All you pretty much have to is add the symbol property into the metadata line, like so.

[Embed(source="assets/icon.swf", symbol="number")]
private var Icon:Class

Big Stack

6th July 2008 | 0 Comments

So I was playing a little bit of Texas hold'em yesterday and I was doing ok until the friend that rode with me got a little sick. Knowing that time was against me I decided it was time to use my hurry-up offense which is coincided with me getting a bunch of good hands. I was on a roll and quickly became the big stack at the table and then everyone decided to cash out. Another hour and I would of had everybody's cash. At least I still made money.