I was told at work today to think "creatively" for a new game for the Greater Manchester sports partnership website. It should be something viral that draws attention to some county-wide 'sports day' type event they're having. I have a few ideas but I'm walking a fine line between making something viral (which means it has to be funny, edgy or risque) and something 'serious' that they'll actually agree to.

If anyone has any ideas for silly or non-silly games feel free to post them here!

After some weird screw up, last week if you searched google uk for "Dancing dave" it would come up with one of my silly flash animations as #1 just above Dave benson Phillips disco dancing.

While this is strangely funny, I would prefer if it actually linked to my silly flash that is ACTUALLY called Dancing Dave. So I've sorted the pages out and now am #1 again.

Wow, that's.... like.... almost famous.

Or maybe not. But it is handy to reference my own stuff when it's top in google!

check it out: [link]

Oh ....my....god

I recieved a text message yesterday around 5 o clock, it was from my landlady, saying "Hopefully see you tonight".
I'd completely forgotten it was her and her boyfriend's leaving do and we'd agreed to go. It was a big fancy dress bash, so me and my flatmate rushed around the house trying to find something to use as a fancy dress costume.

The theme was movies, so my flatmate knocked together a makeshift Indiana Jones outfit, whilst I luckily found a Viking helmet that I'd used for a previous party. In fact I had the full outfit. My mum had made me a great costume out of some fake sheep-skin and a Hessian shirt thing. I found a plastic sword and even made use of the blonde Cher wig I'd used for another party where I went as a Hippie.

The results were scary. I was a gay viking.

I've put the photos here :

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I've finally got a full flickr account started uploading all of my many many photos.
(I've still got loads more to upload and it's already over 1000!)

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I'm having a very annoying problem with a FLV player I created based on the tutorials on gotoAndLearn.com (video basics pt1-6).

The SWF works extremely well in IE7 and firefox, but in Safari plays very jerkily and choppy and the sound is echoed.

Here it is in action:
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The SWF is a content managed component using Ajax, but don't let that put you off - I tested the swf, FLV and HTML on their own using safari and it still does the same, so I sumise that the problem is within the SWF, not the content managed stuff.

I have uploaded the files I have used for this project here:
[link] if anyone reading this wants to help me with this, I'd really appreciate any help on the subject!