Griffith Designs

Check out this article I found while surfing the web.

September 12, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A California man who served jail time for hacking hundreds of military and government computers nine years ago was charged yesterday with new computer crimes: stealing tens of thousands of credit card accounts by breaking into bank and card processing networks.

Max Ray Butler, 35 of San Francisco, a.k.a Max Vision, and also known by his online nicknames of Iceman, Digits and Aphex, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of transferring stolen identity information. Arrested last week in California, where he remains, Butler could face up to 40 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine if he is convicted on all five counts.

Deja Vu!

More layoffs this fiscal year, more artists got released, and I am getting worried again. Wish the military would switch back to training so I could feel more comfortable about my job security.

I am finally working on the code for my dynamic site program. I have decided to put all of my web skills into one platform for real estate agents to use when building a website. I finally found the time to get it done now though!

I will post a link to the demo once I get enough running.

Well, I dropped in on ImageBeaver to check out how it was doing. It has been a while since I developed that site for an old friend of mine. Seems the beaver is doing really well, as it is featured on many websites and has hundreds of thousands of galleries.

Well, it's true. They had something like a $30,000,000,000.00 profit posted a few days ago. I don't know about you, but that sounds like too much damn money.

Well, a friend of mine used my Jigsaw Puzzle on his website. I customized it just for him, being he has such a cool forum that I drop by and contribute to every once in a while.

Well, I am working on a flash based poker game just for the heck of it. There is a lot more math involved in this than I would like, but it is turning out very well.

Well, I posted about making a poker game in flash a couple days ago. Now I will add the code I used ot actually make the deck with the 2 arrays we made.

1	function createNewDeck ():Array {
2	var array:Array = new Array;
3	for (i = 0; i < cardSuits.length; i++) {
4	for (j = 0; j < cardSigns.length; j++) {
5	array.push (cardSigns[j] + " " + cardSuits[i]);
6	}
7	}
8	return array;
9	}

Well, I made the list on SF! My project has been accepted and is now on SourceForge.net. I have even put the FLA file in the SVN repo as open source since I have always been fond of people helping me out when I needed it. Hopefully some of the stuff I have done will be able to be used by someone else.

Well, we have already made the deck of cards, so now we need to shuffle it. You can feel free to copy this code if you are making a flash based card game yourself. Or even PHP as it would be pretty easy to port over.

Well, being I am getting into video content more and more, I had to take the leap to create an FLV player. This player takes a query sting variable and pulls the assigned FLV file to use in it. Here is an example of how it looks:

I am finding as I go that there are some minor bugs that I will have to work out, but all-in-all, it is fully functional.

Well, I had to update the Dynamic FLV Player with just a couple fixes, so that I think it is 100% stable. I will do some more testing to it to make sure, but plan on releasing a stable version before the end of the month.

Anyway you can grab the latest version in the same spot. It is 0.9.2

Was just watching the news and they are talking about how the rate didn't meet the estimate. I agree with them when they say good news. What they don't mention is that the number they have doesn't factor in people who dropped out of the market from discouragement, people who lost unemployment benefits and people who have taken part-time jobs.

It just amazes me how "news" can give you just half the news.