How to use the query string in the address bar to load specific images in an swf (flash) file.

A great resource over at Actionscript blog goes over various ways to extract variables from the GET query string: http://www.actionscriptblog.net/?p=79 . I was recently asked if these variables could actually be used to load images into flash. These are my notes.
Images can easily be loaded into an swf with the MovieClip Loader Object. A simple [...]

StumbleUpon account hacked – security lax

Recently I hooked up my StumbleUpon account to the new FriendFeed service which aggregates all your social networking activity. Just for fun I subscribed to my own FriendFeed to see what types of things came in. What a surprise this morning when I began reading my feeds by Google reader and found all kinds of [...]

Six more miles last night, but 1 hour quicker

Last night Mocha Joy and I did the same hike as Dawn and I did Sunday, only 1 hour quicker. This is the point where you feel exhausted, wanting to give up. You feel no benefit from the exercise. There is no weight loss yet. That will come in a week if this craziness [...]

Six miles per day keeps the doctor away.

Yesterday, my wife and I successfully walked around 3 hours, which I attribute to be about 6 miles. This is a huge accomplishment for me. I usually sit around the house watching TV or complaining about other lazy people. I’ve listened to John Medinas talk on how important it is for the brain to have [...]

Lance Wig at Flickr

If you are too busy and too board to read my blog, you can always go over to my page at Flickr to see my photostream.

Dudley Do Right comes to Wigville

Dawn brought home a visitor from the animal hospital last Tuesday. When I heard that, “We have company.”, I went inside to see who may be sitting on our couch. I walked right past the box turtle sitting on top of the washing machine. Dudley is about 10 years old. He was mistaken [...]

The future of the web is not individual sites. It’s being part of social networks.

Today I had a bit of an epiphany on the effectiveness of individual sites like mine. Who really has time to bother with LanceWig.com? I’m watching more and more people get into social networking sites like Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Del.icio.us. Even Google is set to roll out new social networking features to their iGoogle [...]