Archive for May, 2007

A Quick Question

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How to Limit a Number Between 2 Values

Limiting or constraining a number to a specified range of values isn’t the most common task you’ll have to perform in Flash, but it does pop up from time to time. If you encounter such a situation here is a little bit of code for your consideration:
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Thank You for Commenting

I don’t respond to all the comments made on this site but I do appreciate the fact that people take the time to share their opinions or voice their appreciation. It soothes my dark crusty old soul to hear from people around the world and learn that I may have helped or influenced them in some small way or another.

So, to JM, Benj, Mike, Grant, Felipe, Jose, Amiby, Totli, Vincent, Mauricio, Bob, Tini, Robert, and all the others who left a comment, I say “Thanks for sharing.”

If you’re reading a post and think you might have something to add, or if you’d simply like to say “Hi” or “Thanks”, please don’t hesitate to do so, you just might make my day. 😉

Random Candy Colors

If you saw my recent “Candy Cosmos” post, you may have noticed that the randomly generated colors tend to be rather “vibrant”.

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Pure red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow colors appear frequently, while pure black and white colors occur occasionally, and colors near 50% gray tend to be the least common. The bright candy colors are a side effect caused by
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Not a Calendar, Planner, Diary or Timeline

The “Time Lion” is not a calendar, planner, diary or timeline. In fact it’s hardly useful at all. Sure, in the past I’ve used it to track time spent on client projects and I’ve even used it to track my diet and medications once or twice but I still haven’t found many other uses for it.

The “Time Lion” attempts to visualize Time and let you interact with events in said time through a unique Flash interface. In a sense, it gives you relatively quick access to 10,000 years of events
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Online Banking Sites

I currently use my local credit union for all my banking needs. They have nearly everything I could possibly want but I’ve found them to be lacking in one regard. The credit union I use doesn’t have a “SWIFT” code. What’s a SWIFT code you ask. Well, it’s a number that allows banks of different nations to securely wire electronic funds to each other. If your bank doesn’t have a SWIFT code then you can say “goodbye” to quick and easy international wire transfers from your clients in far away lands and “hello” to long delays waiting for international mail and foreign checks to clear
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Basic Image Editing in WordPress

Sometimes you need to edit an image for use in your WordPress blog but you might not need (or you might not have access to) a high-powered image editing application like Photoshop. Maybe you want to post a smaller version of an image you’ve already used in a previous post or maybe you want to “zoom in” to a specific area of an image to add emphasis. If that’s the case, you may find
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