recepticle=<b>Friday, April 29, 2005</b><br /><br /><b>cornflakes in my beard</b><br />it appears that my altruism and desire to satisfy the needs of mankind are boundless, and can be slaked only by writing all you prospective flash bloggers <u><a href="asfunction:loadContent,tutorials">more tutorials</a></u>. tutorial four: getting blogger comments to work in your flash blog. with a comments count! that's a slice of fried gold, my friend.<br /><br /> - posted by lawrie at 10:22 AM ~ <u><a href="asfunction:loadComments,111477085138372184">comments</a></u><br /><br /><b>Thursday, April 28, 2005</b><br /><br /><b>star wars christmas special</b><br />my hits have gone up by about fifty percent in the past couple of weeks, with most of the referrals coming from <u><a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=939%26topic=41" target="_blank">blogger's help archive</a></u> (third link from the bottom).<br /><br />considering that i'd only written two tutorials (the last one published in october last year), i thought i'd scoop up all of my wisdom goo into a jar and pour it all over those of you who keep asking about my simply beautiful scrollbar: <u><a href="asfunction:loadContent,tutorials">tutorial three is now online</a></u>.<br /><br />today i downloaded a terrible quality realmedia video of the <b>star wars christmas special</b>. aired only once in 1978 on nbc, george lucas once tried to buy every last copy of the reel and all the duplicates so that no one would ever see it again.<br /><br />aside from the half-assed acting by all involved (and yes, that did include harrison ford, mark hamill, carrie fisher, et al), the fist-chomping variety slots, the 'special appearance' by jefferson starship and the boba fett cartoon, the thing that amazed me was one of the very first scenes, which involved <b>ten minutes of wookiee dialogue</b> by chewie's family.<br /><br />so, it appears that george lucas has <b>always</b> been a gigantic twat.<br /><br /> - posted by lawrie at 2:23 AM ~ <u><a href="asfunction:loadComments,111465640592067958">comments</a></u><br /><br /><b>Tuesday, April 26, 2005</b><br /><br /><b>this stuff is really not as expensive as before</b><br />i intended to post something about pope hitler ii being a nazi, but while searching google news, the little finger on my right hand preempted the middle finger of my left, striking the 'enter' key and betraying my post-hardcore progressive sensibilities, meaning that i searched for 'pop' instead of 'pope'.<br /><br />had it not been for this fortuitous finger slippage i never would have discovered that brian harvey, former lord chav supreme of nineties poptards <b>east 17</b> tried to <u><a href="http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1179648,00.html" target="_blank">kill himself with a number of sleeping tablets and several cans of strong lager</a></u>.<br /><br />oh, brian; not only did you fail at being a pop star, fail at being a reinvented pop star and fail at being a z-list 'celebrity', you even failed to kill yourself properly with 10 cans of hobo special and a fistful of barbiturates. even marilyn monroe managed that one, you fucking plum.<br /><br />for those of you smart enough to know where that last line came from, here's <u><a href="http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1177125,00.html" target="_blank">something of interest</a></u>; scroll down to paragraph seven.<br /><br /> - posted by lawrie at 2:57 PM ~ <u><a href="asfunction:loadComments,111452883058859053">comments</a></u><br /><br /><b>Tuesday, April 19, 2005</b><br /><br /><b>embrace machines</b><br />some of you with eyes may have noticed that i have been offline a great deal. this is mostly thanks to bt for instamatically fucking up my internet connection, leaving me offline until <b>at least</b> next monday. "how are you blogging right now, then?" those of you with brains might be asking.<br /><br /><b><i>whell</i></b>, i hardwired my cpu to the local library mainframe, then tripled the pentium and uploaded my modem to their hyperlink so i could intersurf the hyperweb. someone's been watching <b>hackers</b>.<br /><br />also, i've been busy. again. <u><a href="http://www.wearezil.com" target="_blank">zil: download joy at your convenience</a></u>. listen to them, because they are awesome.<br /><br /> - posted by lawrie at 4:38 PM ~ <u><a href="asfunction:loadComments,111392903090162393">comments</a></u><br /><br /><b>Tuesday, April 12, 2005</b><br /><br /><b>busy buzzy bumble bee</b><br />i have been a busy little bee. go check out my latest piece of design wiffery <b>and</b> an awesome band at the same time: <u><a href="http://www.hernameiscalla.co.uk" target="_blank">her name is calla</a></u>.<br /><br /><i><b>update:</b></i><br /><br />i just fixed the problem with the buttons spazzing out in firefox. after two hours of going through every tiny little piece of code in the flash document, i discover that it's <b>one line of css</b>. seriously, as far as flash is concerned, firefox still blows.<br /><br /> - posted by lawrie at 11:10 AM ~ <u><a href="asfunction:loadComments,111330440661247866">comments</a></u><br /><br /><b>Monday, April 04, 2005</b><br /><br /><b>little magic. perfect weekends.</b><br />"where the fuck has lawrie been for two weeks?" i can hear you thinking, via the power of my internet telepathy. i moved house! that's right, at the tender age of 26 i finally moved out and i now live inside a hollowed-out potato on the moon!<br /><br />there's a much longer story attached to my moon adventure, but for now would you please all go and <u><a href="http://www.threadless.com/submission/36910/Chocolate_Holepunch" target="_blank">vote for my shirt</a></u>, because i need to make some rent somehow, and this seemed like a really easy way to do it.<br /><br /> - posted by lawrie at 2:52 PM ~ <u><a href="asfunction:loadComments,111262685450779176">comments</a></u><br /><br />