Old new music
Appears that Paradise Lost are re-releasing all their Music for Nations albums, some of them have been tricky to get hold of in the past few years.
Shame it’s not the Gothic and Lost Paradise albums, but still I should be able to fill some gaps in my music collection now.
My Dying Bride are back in the studio working on their 9th studio album, following up the ‘Song of darkness/Word of light’ album which was released back in early 2004. The band are also Headlining this years BloodStock Indoor feastival at the end of September.
oh and remember that Ministry’s Rio Grand Blood album is out now, so get shopping.
There and back again
I have the day off work tomorrow as I’m travelling to London, to go and see the Dresden Dolls with my sister and Ricci
I noticed that SYL are playing in Portsmouth on the 8th of June ( one off gig as they are at Download), still debating about going to it, as i have visitors the following weekend and then Tool in London on the 13th.
Back in Wales for 1 night on Saturday then back to Feltham near Heathrow as I’mon a course for the week. So doubt I shall be blogging much, as consolation I leave you with a movitational poster from work, located on the mirror in the toilet.
AJAX Fun
Sadly I’m not playing with bleach this week but having some fun with AJAX, to avoid boring you with details, lets sum it up by saying:
It allows the creation of interactives websites without the need for the users browser reloading.Although we have quite a few new application that use this functionality, I haven’t really seen much in the way of AJAX games.
I have been meaning to look into how it functions and pratical uses for it, plus i’m intreged by it. Damn my overly curious mind.
So taking my first step into the AJAX world I created a very basic RPG kind of game here. OK so it’s pretty poor but you can see that the page doesn’t refresh with each action and unlike the classic text base adventure games the directions are clickable.I should also point out that to use a AJAX website you must have IE 5+ with ActiveX enabled or Netscape 7.1+ (Firefox) / Opera 8 both with javascript enabled. Of course no JavaScripting would be the same without having to add code to identify and handle the different types of browser, which is a pain but the you don’t want to exclude certain types of users from your website, so you need to cater for various types of browser you may encounter.
