The never ending lie...

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Before I start, I feel I have to add a small legal disclaimer on this entry just incase any members of ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS - Greece's foremost non Legal Government run organisation happen to stumbleupon it and suffer any ill effects after being exposed to their reality. - I wouldn't want any more illegal court cases to be brought out against myself for writing about the truth again now would I...?

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Trending today - Greek Health woes and the systematic corruption behind the Health sector and HIV/Aids NGO's which are defrauding the Ministries. . .
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Lies, cover ups and censoring the truth, welcome to the Greek HIV/Aids sector. . .

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It's late, I'm tired and to be perfectly honest - I'm f*cking sick of having to be what seems like the only voice of reason, sense and dignity in a vile and pathetic sector of systematic health care abuse which isn't just rife, but is what can only be disturbingly referred to as the 'norm' here in Greece and Europe.

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Just a quick thank you. . .

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Note to self & to those it may concern :

Nearly 5 years in Greece, and wow, some f*ckin rollercoaster I've been on. From meeting and working with one of the Countries largest collection of Malaka's to surviving to the 'right here - right now' has been the stuff of legend, but definitely NOT to be repeated.

This year is to be a good year for Greece.

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Hope, the Sun and Erections, but not necessarily in that order. . . It’s all we have left!
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AS3 Flash, prettyPhoto and galleries.

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Having previously searched across the web and struggled to spot any concrete Flash methology in how to call lightboxes from Flash via AS3, I thought it would make an ideal subject for my next post.

For this particular example I will be using prettyPhoto's lightbox as I find it one of the best in terms of simplicity and versatility however the same ideology will form the basis of most available light boxes examples which can be found online.

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Simplistic solutions to working with Flash AS3 & Lightboxes by using ExternalInterface.call & Javascript. . .
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History, humour and tickling my nuts...

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It's not always the good elements in life which make us smile or laugh, often it's the relentless supply of misery, bad luck or poor judgement which we indulge in at various stages of our lives that later takes us by surprise.

Sometimes other people's misfortune is enough to appease our need to feel human once more, often our own self vanity and correctness can be unraveled by a misplaced footstep, over confidence or stubbornness, and whilst somebody walking into a closed door or falling down the stairs can have very realistic and fatal repercussions, the manner, timing and way in which it can be done can also reduce us to tears a lot of the time.

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Tickle it, don't pickle it. . .
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3D or not 3D, that is the question. . .

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An Ode to 3D :

3D, or not 3D, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous Software, or to take arms against a Sea of troubles, and by uploading them: to die, to sleep no more;

And by a sleep, to say we end the rendering, and the thousand unnatural shocks that Flash is prone to?

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Introducing the design methology behind creating a 2D/3D material library for animation/composite projects such as the new 'World of Dude' - http://www.esadude.com/
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So, why fckdup athens...?

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Well, I thought today would be a good opportunity to clear the air and kill two birds with one stone so to speak, (if only)...

As we're over the holiday period and our beloved Legal services are back in full flow, I though it would be nice to refresh the air and remind people as to some of the serious issues that affect us all here in Greece - and inform a few who don't already know how the name '

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Time's moved on but some things sadly are still the same. Why things came to be this way is beyond me but what I do know is that it needed to face change. And change it is, this is how fckdupathens came to be. . .
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Happy Xmas, whoever the f*ck you are!

‘Tis the time to be Jolly’, (apparently) so let’s get that f*cker out the way for starters!

It’s not that I don’t like Christmas, I do.

As far as capitalist money making ventures go, Christmas is one of my faves, the fact it’s supported and endorsed by Religions worldwide is even better.

Santa, so who is he really?

Despite the fact that he only works for one day a year, breaks into your house and disappoints people the world over year after year, it’s just further confirmation as to just how awesome he really is.

In reality, he’s just a lazy chav who’s a part-time delivery driver for a slightly crazy but harmless cult. Cool or what?

Let’s face it, between Santa Claus and many other fictional entities touted Globally, my money’s firmly on the Fat guy in a red suit!

Too many mince pies or is he just big boned?

I’m not picking on Fat people, but historically Santa Claus has so far always managed to be referred to as a ‘Fat guy’ for quite some time without the Politically correct crazies pouncing on it! Remarkable in itself.

The very notion that an Anorexic Santa could climb down your chimney with a big bag of presents seems unlikely in itself, let alone climb back out! It would have made better sense in times of hardship but we aren’t that forward thinking or practical as a people.

For commerce and sales, a big Fat Santa makes more sense. The “Sorry honey, this year Santa only brought you a ‘Ferrero Rocher’ wouldn’t cut the mustard with many.

Divorces would soar as women everywhere smashed frying pans over their husbands sleeping bodies everywhere and that ‘cute’ guy they’ve been flirting with would be already be cutting the Turkey!

So, in this world gone mad that we live in, I’m sure it won’t be long before we have to refer to him as ‘Santa Person‘ of non descript size and sex, wearing a multi-colored suit riding a sledge being pulled by some form of robot which is not likely to be harrassed by animal activists in any way.

To be safe, you won’t be getting any presents in the future either in case it offends you,offends those near you, or someone you may know with religious beliefs so anally retentative that they borderline on just plain cartoon.

Plus, on the off chance it causes you injury in later life through accidental neglect, failure to read the instructions, update it correctly or charge it for the right amount of time, or simply because you decided to jam something up your bottom for novelty because it didn’t have a bloody great ‘DO NOT JAM THIS UP YOUR BOTTOM‘ sticker on it, it will further rule out someone getting sued for the pleasure of your own stupidity. . .

So – Santa Claus, is it sexism gone MAD? – (Said with a Jeremy Clarkson voice).

Me personally, I like the whole fat guy in a red suit to be honest, it gives us all fair warning should we need it.

If you have kids it’s – grants maybe a few extra seconds to be able to change route or to spoil them, which ever option best suits at the time.

If you’re in a relationship, it gives you chance to show off or hope to ignore the imminent festivities, and if your like me, if just gives you chance to muse over a slightly disturbed vision of a wierdo in an oversized suit with a fake beard getting strangers to sit on his Knee!

In an ideal world, we’d lock him up – Just to be safe! Bizarrely though for one day a year it’s still ok. . .

It’s a man’s Job!?

Without appearing to come across as sexist, it’s probably a little safer having a man climb up & down your chimney these days in any case, (and ignore the smutty connotation, please), but having a woman climbing down into a strange house is an accident waiting to happen in so many ways.

High heels, hair all buffed up and lathered in Hair spray, well. . . It’s probably fair to say she’d go up the Chimney faster than she ever went down it and you know they’d be recreating it on Mythbusters too at some point. . .

Can you really make a Cannon out of a Chimney, a can of hairspray and a well rounded Santa woman?

Firstly, just imagine her trying to park! A Nightmare, plus directions.

If she’s familiar and been before, probably not too bad but map reading, come on, you’d be lucky to see your presents by July, and that’s being optimistic (and I know you were assuming I mean’t the same July, which I didn’t). . .

I’m all for the whispering what you’d want for Christmas in their ear though and would do the decent thing and have her sit on my knee so to not squash her, beyond that though, it’s rightfully a sexist vocation in my opinion.

Having a sexy Santa climb down the chimney would just end up putting too many men in prison for a start, half aren’t fit to control themselves at best let alone with someone who just climbs down their chimney, it’s why women don’t make good burglars.

Sure they Can do it, but more than half resort in having to blow the balls off some over sexed numpty everytime they break into a house.

It’s not that having a female Santa is wrong, it’s just that if you ever want to get your presents anywhere near ontime, you at least need a man to drive them there! – lol

So, have a cracking Christmas and an eventful New Year assuming the Mayan Calendar is of course wrong.

In the event of the End of the World actually occurring, then it will just provide further proof that as a species we deserved to all be wiped out.

After all, we had a Calendar predicting it and still did f*ck all about it. . .

I just wish it had a picture of Kylie in those Gold hotpants on the cover, maybe then we’d have taken it more seriously!

Please forward any complaints to spankmymunkey@giveash*t.com

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World Aids day - Not just a fight against Aids, but clearly the corruption and neglect that runs rife within this sector...

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To be honest I'm new to the whole HIV/Aids thing and if I'm honest it wasn't what I thought I'd ever be involved in. An accidental bad career choice when I came to Greece exposed me to the corruption which had plagued one of Greece's founder establishments - ACTUP ΔΡΑΣΕ HELLAS and since I still fight on having seen how ignorant so many people are within this sector, NGO's, the government who have tried to cover this all up and the rest within this community who have failed to help themselves.

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What with another 'World aids day' upon us, remember now's the time you can do nothing and allow the corruption destroying this sector to carry on lying, stealing and abusing those responsible. Systematic abuse of this sector is not only ripe here in Greece, it's state Policy. Why not join in the fun too and set up your own NGO so you can steal funding, abuse patients records and persecute anyone who dares point this out! Join today and help corruption neglect those who need help once more...
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AS3/Flash tips – Components. . .

This is one of many tips on using ‘Flash – AS3‘ that may help people in the long term as it’s discovery helped me recently.

I don’t claim to be the founder in all these tips but just merely aim to provide an outlet for things which myself and many who use this program will benefit from.

How to win with Flash.

Interactive design & Flash media can drive you mad!

Flash interactive web design for professionals.

Make the Internet work for you. . .

Having used the program for far too long I dread to think how much time I’ve wasted googling forums etc on trying to overcome a hidden bugbear, an oversight or simply just a quirk from this great program. It’s potential is immense however the learning curve from idea to screen is often a long and perilous road to madness.

A trip to the Library :

So, I’ve never been a huge fan of the ‘Flash‘ components however sometimes needs must and in fairness they do provide alternatives for numerous situations.

Admittedly they aren’t the most glamorous of objects but they were provided for functionality rather than presence.

Skinning them is a nightmare and unless you delve deep into the component structure, getting them to resemble anything other than what they are is quite a task.

My first tip is with regards to exporting them by means of a child layer hosted by a parent as it’s something that recently I nearly went mad with.

In this example I am referring to a holding file ie.(parent.swf) which has imported an external (child,swf) with components.

It’s important in such cases that the parent file has in it’s library the same components as the child. I don’t know why this is however noticed that when compiling the examples above, everything worked fine on my pc until I uploaded it and tried to run it online.

I’m guessing that whilst it’s being held locally, all the reference files are accounted for and it somehow requires instigation via the root file. I’ve seen reference to AS2 issues whereby you could set the root layer however I believe that this is no longer supported in AS3, hence the drama.

In one file I had a simple comboBox which though being present onstage wouldn’t function other than to highlight when on mouseOver.

I kind of understand the logic however don’t fully grasp why if the file holds the component, the parent has to. This is for someone else to wrestle with, I only cared for the solution in this case.

The drawback is that using several instances of the component in both parent and child files adds significantly to filesize if your into bandwidth economy. I personally don’t lose sleep over a few extra ‘kb‘ here or there as we’re in an age where most people have decent signal or bandwidth anyway and as per my previous rant, if the odd person is sat in a cold war bunker trying to visit my site with Internet Explorer and it takes a little longer, then tough sh*t.

Deal with it, It’s not a diet website, it’s full fat in your face functionality with bells and whistles. This doesn’t suit every project of course and in some cases it may affect your design ethic.

All dressed up and nowhere to code, add some style :

On the same theme, below is a simple example of changing a font style to a component.

Components for Flash, adding style & fonts.

A simple font added to a comboBox makes a big change to your project!

Flash based interactive websites for commerce
Nowadays we have broadband, so make it do stuff…

To begin you need to embed a font into the file Library. In this example We’ll call it Font1. To do this either goto Text/Font embedding into the top panel or add New Font in the Library.

Remember also to import the right component/text & screen elements :

Import the component Class :

import fl.controls.TextInput;
import flash.controls.ComboBox;

Define the Font style with Format Text :

//Format Text in dynamic textFields
var fontStyle:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
fontStyle.color = 0×000000;  // Define the Font Color
fontStyle.font = “Font1″;  // Define the Font set in the Library *As above.
fontStyle.size = 18; // Define the font size.

Set Style to Object :

this.objTxt.setStyle(“textFormat”, fontStyle); // Apply style.
this.objTxt.setStyle(“embedFonts”, true); // Set font as embedded.

This would apply the same to RadioBoxes, CheckBoxes and most components, examples below.

this.checkBox.setStyle(“textFormat”, setStyle);
this.radioFemale.setStyle(“textFormat”, setStyle);
this.radioMale.setStyle(“textFormat”, setStyle);

this.checkBox.setStyle(“embedFonts”, true);
this.radioFemale.setStyle(“embedFonts”, true);
this.radioMale.setStyle(“embedFonts”, true);

this.checkBox.textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
this.radioMale.textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;
this.radioFemale.textField.antiAliasType = AntiAliasType.ADVANCED;

Examples of this in action can be found throughout my site as with many other techniques and options, for more information please feel free to get in touch or comment below.

I don’t claim to be a ‘Flash‘ wizard, I just know ways of sledghammering it into place to make it do roughly what is required of it. . .

Years of experience have taught me that everyday, Still, is a school day. . .

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