Saturday, July 31, 2010

Hyperisland: making real change in day to day agency life

Actions I have lastly seen about this people:
Coming off the Island: making real change in day to day agency life
View more presentations from hackemer.
In Facebook an action where you can recomend/nominate your friends to go there:
+ About Hyperisland:
Actually if you have time and money, and need formation in the digital and interactive area, this is really the place.

W PhoneWatch by Kempler & Strauss

You have probably read about it on the internet reviews or seen it on YouTube. But now you can owns one here in Malaysia. The Kempler & Strauss W PhoneWatch is solely distributed by Mobile Concepts (M) Sdn. Bhd. (MCM) locally soon. The award winning W PhoneWatch will be making its debut in Malaysia. What so special about this W PhoneWatch compare to those China-made phone watch? The Kempler &

Friday, July 30, 2010

Flash + Facebook = online success

Yesterday was the launch of the campaign Lost in val sinestra which I found via Yorokobu.

This is a microsite where you get connected by Facebook, then you choose the characters (your friends!) and at the end of the process you get a video as this one:

LOST IN VAL SINESTRA from Fernando Comet on Vimeo.

We´ve already seen the same idea a couple of times or more, for example in the site Je tue un ami com a été tué, and also in a swedish website about communications whose name I don´t remember now. Something similar was seen in Prototype


This is a video where they insert photos and texts with the Facebook API by an XML. Later, the difficult step, is to mask all the photos so as to see them in the video. I´ve seen more as this one but not as good.

If you have a look to the code, this is the url of the html:
HTTP://WWW.LOST-IN-VAL-SINESTRA.COM/027594C51758D0BF72, and we have:

var flashvars = {};
flashvars.swfUrl = "MovieMaker.swf";
flashvars.xmlUrl = "xml/content.xml";
flashvars.movieHash = "027594C51758D0BF72";

Probably the video has cuepoints where they insert the photos, Flash makes this all right even if the video is on streaming.

In this case they forgot the option to share the final video with other APIS (Twitter, Blogger, etc.) Anyway I´m watching more and more like this in the future. The use of Flash within Facebook is a warranty of success.


Killing Plan for AnnChing Birthday

dondon83Monte's allocated in Bangsa Shopping Center.

dondon83where's our food. dun messed with hunger Kanasai ppl, else we might eat u.

dondon83the Paria Ann very Ying Chau + ING to lick the huge Lollipop in her hand. oh ya her birthday present

dondon83and the Cake? we decide to make it little special.. and here we are~ CUP CAKE! hahahha.

dondon83The Birthday Girl An trying to blow the candle before the ceiling fan did XD

dondon83and the FOOD we ordered from the restaurant.. yummy... gonna try them again someday.

dondon83as usual.. Kanasai Gang always have a ROUND 2, and we're are in Sunway Giza now.. time to go OVERTIME. and we ordered a Starker beer and trying to KO the birthday girl..

dondon83Guess what... after 2 barrel... she still alive.. amazing... ok lar. not her alone finished the 2 barrel la. we did contribute also.. and we also make the Beer to look like BUBBLE TEA... easy for her maybe? kakakaka

dondon83okay.. here the Kanasai Peoples.. with Mission Take Down Birthday Girl.. i can see she still alive while i leave.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

What version of Flash do you use?


So, now that everyone has installed his Flash CS5 version or trial I wonder how many of the 3 million of programmers are using it.

In my case I jumped directly from CS3 to CS5, due to the unexpected errors of CS4. Other issue if you used the Flash IDE was the long waitting time in CS4 for compilation or just to see the Actions Panel.

By the way, here some links I find usefull, I´m thinking about making a Flash CS5 Professional Cheet Sheet, I still have to collect the twitter accounts.


Flash Evangelist

The poll is in Spanish but it just says "Which version of Flash are you using?"


Saturday, July 24, 2010

Runaway Project.2Day 1Night in Kee's FarmStay

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Kee's Farmstay-Pertang. never knew there is a place like this in middle of nowhere geh kampung..

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checkout the Farmstay Environments.. ok.. look more like a farm.. let's play Farm Ville anyone?

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Chicke... Turkey.. Ducls. goats... hmph,,,, which 1 to choose for our dinner tonight?? ngek ngek ngek...

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meeeeh~~~ meeeh~ take ur grass and eat.

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Swan. used to peck by it while i'm still a child. this swan.. lol.. scare me one. wakakkaka

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The Duck's Empire.. hmph... which one of them is Donal Duck?

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okay.. it's time to prepare for your BBQ session! yay.. they even have the special place for BBQ already.

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our pick of the day.. KAMPUNG CHICKEN! sorry ar chicke. yeah.. stay a night there. u got a free chicken as dinner.

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dun talk jor. let's dinner 1st! BBQ were so great!! even though some of them are become charcoal already.

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never expect there is a Karaoke equipment here. never expect songs to be updated here. but still enough for us to enjoy..

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Sampative Cam whoring.

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guess what happen after BBQ, and after Karaoke? they .. they.. wanted to declare WAR.. water balloon WAR... it's FUN! what happen after that? all wet.. and tired...

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Okay.. okay.. i know u want to eat them all, okay~ it's all yours.

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our next day breakfast.. kampung style breakfast loo kopi + bread. got Meow King durian as desert somemore.

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and this is the owner of the Farm... he initially plan to turn this land into his retire home stay.. and didn't expect it become a resort here. great place i can say. another good relaxing place.

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The oraganizer Song Lin did prepared something for each of us. sorry karling...dun so down ya.. wakakkakak

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some nature's something that i discover back in the farm.


Official Website : www.PertangFarm.com

Friday, July 23, 2010

Universal Parenting Truth #31

 

If you want to make your outing 229 times more fun for your kids…

Riding the Bus

Involve the city bus.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

She’s starting to look like a cancer patient

Seen comics that look like this?

 

 

Well this is my life.  Faith really does this.  All of the time.  (Ryan’s cousin pointed out the other day, when I was whining about it, that you see it in comic strips and as a euphemism for frustration.  No one thinks it’s real!)

In case you haven’t noticed…Faith is a little bit of a challenge.  I’ve had 4 other toddlers and I know about tantrums, and I KNOW that this girl does not have normal tantrum issues.  I cannot figure out how to work with her.  We’ve tried EVERYTHING (and trust me when I say that I am awesomely consistent at stuff like ignoring, removing, not giving in). 

She is extremely willful.  I’ve kind of figured out that she’s a “strong-willed” or “explosive” child.  When things don’t go her way she does any combination of the following:

  • screams
  • falls on the floor and kicks her legs
  • begins to gag and barf
  • pulls out handfuls of hair (so upsetting)
  • goes on for hours
  • writhes and kicks and makes it very difficult for us to physically control her
  • tries to bite us and, if that fails, herself

tantrum

 

She is very hard to calm down, distract, reason with (obviously).  Sometimes when another person gets involved (Emma, Ryan), she will settle down…I think because she doesn’t want to “give in” to the person issuing the directive to buckle in her car seat, eat only on the wood floor, get dressed, not steal her siblings’ stuff, stop reading a book, etc. etc.   She is the WORST when we leave the house, because she knows she can get way more leverage when we are in Target and nowhere near her bedroom.  I think it’s mostly about control and she’s VERY smart about figuring out what buttons to push (hair pulling for Vain Me, barfing on the floor for Clean Ryan).

We’ve prayed and I felt directed to become an “expert” on this type of child, so I checked out a million books and searched the web and I found TONS on Strong-Willed Explosive Children, but nothing for kids under 2-3 years of age. 

Can you help?  Any websites, therapists (in the Spokane area), books, articles, ideas would be so greatly appreciated.  This girl RUNS this house with her moods and tantrums and I literally dread when she wakes up in the morning and I have a big knot in my stomach when I have to go anywhere with her.  I kind of wanted to enjoy my last kid, you know?

Friday, July 16, 2010

No…we live on the other side of the state

Disclaimer:  We use all of our travel money and time, generally, to visit grandparents/family in Utah and California.  This year we made a big effort to save some resources to take a trip with just our family.  We really wanted to just spend time with the kids.  This is why, Seattle-area Friends (Yosts, Andrea, Jeanelle), we had to skip on any extraneous visits.  Next time, okay?

Best traveler:

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She slept and was adorable the whole 5 hour trip

 

Best Hotel:

 

Embassy Suites in Bellevue

We never stay in hotels—always cheaping out with relatives.  The kids loved the pool, the two TVs, the breakfast buffet.

 

Best Rockstar:

Seattle5

While everyone enjoyed the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Seth was the most hilarious when he was working on his Sarah McClachlan

 

Worst Tantrumer:

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Yeah.  She doesn’t stop when she leaves the city limits.  In case you were wondering.  (Notice the seriously bald head from tantruming hair pulling.)

 

Jane’s Favorite Tourist attraction:

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While the kids loved seeing Seattle from airplane’s heights at the Space Needle, Those With A Phobia (me) stayed safely inside the building (except for this picture), while the kids ran like crazies on the deck.

 

Biggest Life Lesson:

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The scene of the crime. 

After parental suggestions to allow us to carry the little blue money pouch, Jane’s $12.75 was literally taken from the floor while she did this exhibit at the Discovery Museum.  Seriously:  she went to find it moments after a big crowd of kids swarmed the area…and it was gone.  So sad.

 

Longest Wait to Be a Tightrope Walker:

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(walking the tightrope)

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(In their safety harnesses)

45 minutes at the Discovery Museum’s Circus exhibit.  It was cool in the end, though.

 

Coolest Use of the Crazy Mirrors:

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I’m awarding this to myself.  Not my most attractive look, however.

 

Person who spent the entire time in children’s musuem playing Giant Chess:

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Favorite Day:

Saturday was super sunny!

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We did Pike Place Market,

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walked the Piers,

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had lunch at Ivars,

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visited the Aquarium,

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and took an Argosy cruise.

 

Everyone else’s favorite Tourist Attraction:

The Aquarium. 

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Loved the aquarium diver presentation,

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the feeding of the otters

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and the touching pools.

 

The only 4th of July in history where I didn’t take pictures:

(I told you I didn’t take any pictures!  Probably because we didn’t anything remotely 4th of July-ish)

 

The Biggest Spender:

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I know!  He must have must a conscious effort to not say one word about the hundred’s of dollars we were spending eating out, at museums and the market.  It was so stress free because of his concerted high-rolling efforts.  Thanks, honey!

 

BEST value:

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The city pass.  Seriously.  Go to the website (here) to see if they have one in a city near you.  We went to everything and saved tons of money.  Much easier just to spend the money once (to buy the booklet) and then walk into everything (ahead of the ticket line, btw) without paying.

 

Prettiest Zoo:

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Really.  Seattle’s Woodland Zoo is gorgeous and just the right length (~3 hours). 

 

Funniest reaction to the bird eating off of the birdseed stick:

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(Faith wasn’t a fan)

 

Funnest Meal:

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Ivars and the seagulls, of course.

 

Biggest contributor to Seattle’s Tourist Economy:

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Seen here modeling one of her purchases. 

Person who wanted to hog the most pictures:

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(Every single statue: “Take a picture of me on this one, Mom!”)

 

Best trip in a LOOONG time:

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Well…you just read about it!