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Sometimes it's good to be multi-disciplinary. I just finished cutting the size of an animated loader for AG from about 196k to 32k by replacing snow animated in the editor with snow animated by a simple particle system. It took longer to build this than it did to originally animate the stuff - but now I have a little bit of code I can keep somewhere and pull out if I ever need snow, or smoke, or something similar, again.

The fact that Flash was being cooperative by not crashing and dropping keypresses all the time helped, of course.

dream fragment

I just read a book in my dreams called "Secrets of Great Network Design'. Despite its title, it was actually a book about algorithms and programming. (Its title may have been something else; the words are writhing in my head as I write this.)

Unlike most books in dreams, it was eminently sensible and readable. English text. Thin, but packed full of goodness - the kind of reference text that you keep handy. Simple staple-bound, though I remember noticing being on page 100 or so. Lots of little nuggets of code and theory, with a conversational tone. Of course, none of the content made it out of dreamland.

There was also a dreamed commercial for a "Network Defender", which seemed to be a device that "defends" your wireless network against intruders and freeloaders by lowering its power, so these handy nuggets of code were probably pretty worthless..

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Moose jackson the piss!