In light of recent interview-going frenzy, I happened to stumble on this little short film from Rejected Jokes. It’s pretty funny. Love the guy’s smucked confidence. His sheer blatantly ridiculous resume, his attitude and his super high self esteem… perfect package.

Meanwhile, I’m finally picking up flash again. It’s something I had wanted to do since umm, I first started designing for the web. But the somewhat poor experience in Poly, when I was learning flash, sort of put me off for most of the time. I even went as far as looking at other code-heavy alternatives like Javascripts and its spawns (mootools and whatnot). While these are cool, I don’t really have a full need for them and what I do want to do, I can do with Flash, mostly.

So I’ve been doing a quick refresh of the software. Luckily it all falls into place rather easily, since I’ve done some of the things before. But now I’m looking at the more cool stuff like scrolling galleries and character animation.

I’ve been in denial by saying that Flash sucks and makes websites run slower, load slower, and search engine bots can’t crawl through it. Well, all that is partly true. But it also offers interactivity at an almost unlimited level. Just take a look at this Jakarta based website, Magnivate.

And about the bots not being able to crawl. Those apply more for the full flash websites. Even so, I’ve seen that there are tutorials on how to incorporate metatags into the final published movie/site.

That leaves my accusation that flash makes websites load slower and run slower. Well, again, partly true, but that is entirely up to the designer to optimise the website to load quick, run smooth. Even extremely heavy CSS websites that load up a plethora of images which aren’t even optimised can be painfully slow. And when people go overboard with Ajax or Mootools or any Javascripts, the website could become a nightmare.

It’s all good on the net, just how you build it. Meanwhile, I’m taking a break and checking out bestwebgallery.com

I came across a feed which claims that Windows Vista has released its source code. When I came to the page, I found this to be a pretty funny joke.

Meanwhile, Wordpress has released version 2.5, which is an awesome revolution in terms of design and functionality. I’ve installed it on one of my current projects, and it’s really nice. I’m gonna upgrade Suadref Studios to the latest version soon… probably next holidays.

School’s started again. The subjects this semester looks grim. But it’s the last examinable semester… Must… trudge… through….

Everyone should watch these. Well, at least, ALL star wars fans should.

I laughed damn hard at some of the videos.

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If you have very little time to watch, I highly recommend the following videos (from the site):

1: George Lucas In Love
A parody of Shakespeare in Love, and very cool relations to Star Wars itself. Very well done short film.

6. Ryan Vs Dorkman II
Awesome fan lightsabre duel. I agree, it’s the best choreography done by fans. Effects are awesome too. Very high on cool factor.

9. MUST WATCH: Coming to America Darth Vader
James Earl Jones acted in many movies, and this video is a mashup of his lines from Coming to America (the one with Eddie Murphy). Extremely hilarious… A-HA!