Trimite Instructional Video

Here is a training video I made the other day for Trimite Metal Pretreatment. I went to Trimite in Uxbridge for the day to film this video at their chemicals laboratories. This film will be presented to customers using their products and services. This video was edited in Adobe Premiere and added functionality applied using Flash AS3.

Check it out here and on my online portfolio here.

Current Projects

Although I have no content on my portfolio web section as of yet I thought I'd share my works in progress here.

1. Antiarm (band) Flash site: /antiarm.html


2. New media project concept site: /mega.html


3. PHP test site: /phptest2.php

Please let me know what you think.

New Media Project

I've been asked to produce a simple website for one of my dads colleagues. It only needs to be static html but lately I've been discussing setting up a new media project with my good friend Phil, this seems like a perfect opportunity to test the water. I will produce the front end in html and css and Phil can add administration functionality. This meaning the client can update and maintain the site himself. If all goes according to plan this new media project could involve into something more substantial. It is also possible that we will get another offer from the clients other colleagues for a larger project which I should keep a secret for now. Either way expect to see some substantial content on the web page of my portfolio by the end of the year.

Microsoft at E3

I'm having mixed feelings about my xbox 360 at the moment. On the one hand GOW2 has never looked better and Final Fantasy XIII has been announced for 360, no longer a PS3 exclusive. On the other hand the new dash board is going to look like this. Players are going to have their own miis avatars designed by Rare and the new dashboard looks very "Vista". It is all too evident that consoles are increasingly trying to hold the attention of the casual gamer. To be fair this update isn't all bad, in fact there are a lot of good new features including integration with Netflix and faster load times. Perhaps I'm not feeling so mixed after all, I just really liked the classic "blades" dashboard.

Read the whole article on Kotaku here.

Edit 17/07/2008: Ok I take it back, the new dashboard looks great. Well I'm still not sure about the avatars but look at this...

Rice-Megatron Gaming.Multimedia.Web

I watched a Korean film called "I'm a cyborg but thats's ok" and loved it. The film is a bizarre comedy about a girl put into care as she believes she is a cyborg and refuses to eat. There was a mention to something called a "rice megatron", a fictional device used to convert rice into energy for cyborgs. I liked the idea of a "Rice Megatron" so much I'm considering renaming my portfolio, I have temporarily put up a mock-up "Rice Megatron" logo on the site to see how it looks.

Problem Solved

http://www.erebusstyx.co.uk now works on Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer versions 5.5-7.

Dramatic Switch Around!

I've decided to get my act together and sort out all the shifty CSS in my website, things like negative values in relative positioning (for example my intro paragraphs used to have to be a certain length for the page to look right). In Mozilla and Safari the site never looked better but Internet Explorer everything is horribly out of place. Anybody visiting the site in I.E, I'm sorry, I'll work on it in every waking hour. Until then you could just try using a better browser.

PHP Is Go!

Now I'm using Phil's server (after he very kindly set me up with some storage and a user account) I figured it would be time to start learning PHP. I'm currently learning off PHP 101 by Vikram Vaswani, a free,very informal, easy to understand, multi-part tutorial. I'm attempting to put these lessons into practise on a test page erebusstyx.co.uk/phptest.php, there isn't much there yet, something like hello world but keep checking back for progress.

Net Render

As I mentioned the other day, different browsers can present a web page in different ways. My good friend Phil told me about a website called http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/, simply type in your URL and it will present you with your website as it would be displayed in Internet Explorer versions 5.5 - 8.beta. Very useful for Mac and Unix users.

Domain Name Purchased

At last I have purchased erebusstyx.co.uk. Tomorrow I'm off to Slovenia to attend Metal Camp 08 and see Sasa of Ophion Paddles. When I return on the 10th of July, I will finish uploading the rest of the content for the portfolio.