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Well, the Flash work is nearly finished. I thought I'd escaped any screwy bugs this time round, but in the past 48 hours I've hit two new ones. I thought I'd write them up here in case it helps anyone else.
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A curious arrangement of text fields, movieclips and buttons caused a text field to magically regain the input focus just after it lost it. In my case I was hiding the text field straight after, and this resulted in button clicks failing.
The only solution I could find was to use Selection.setFocus to manually set ...
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Good morning. This entry is brought to you slightly earlier than usual thanks to the wonders of 'Tamper'.
I was woken up at 6.40 by a very loud alarm. I dozed, waiting for the owner to turn it off - as you do - only it didn't get turned off, because it turns out that the owner is me.
My burglar alarm had decided that it wanted to ring, and no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to shut the hell up. The little 'tamper' light is on, so I'm guessing a connection somewhere has gone ...
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I am off on holiday tomorrow - Leela and I are going to Fuerteventura for a week. It's my first real holiday since South Africa nearly two years ago, so I'm looking forward to it. Until recently I didn't know a word of Spanish, but thanks to the babel fish I now know three: café del Internet? Score.
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I'm considering using some kind of VoIP service, and I'm interested to see if any of you are using one?
I'm currently looking at services with an incoming landline number and call forwarding. That would mean that I can get a single number, give that out to clients, and I can then forward that to whichever phone I am closest to, or a central answerphone if I'm unavailable. Sounds like a good plan to me.
DavidH suggested Skype, and it looks quite good. There is a cheap annual fee, but I'd have to pay 1 ...
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I have a phone line, yay! But of course, Plusnet can't get ADSL up and running until Wed 02 Aug. And my temporary mail server has disappeared (probably buckled under the weight of my spam - so much for taking the strain during my move) and so I can't pick that up - tried to get it direct, but after being sat here on a t-mobile connection in starbucks for 5 minutes it had only downloaded 100 of 74039, so I figured I'd give up on that. Which is a real pain, because I know I have a lot ...
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