required field

Monday, January 31, 2005

It is with a bit of regret and sadness that requiredfield closes its doors. We had a run, but so many things have changed in my life and it would take too much work to change requiredfield. reflect those changes. I am moving on and starting fresh with a new site and a new domain. You'll find me at:

http://www.dulcepericulum.org

If you'd like to catch up with my new life, come on over. Thanks for watching.

Mark

posted by chance at 10:04:00 PM

[ 19457 comments ]

Tuesday, February 25, 2003

National Military Appreciation Month

If you are so inclined, visit the Department of Defense web page below and sign a brief message thanking the men and women of the U.S. military services for defending our freedom. The compiled list of names will be sent out to our soldiers at the end of the month. So far, there are only about 5,000,000 names. What a shame. There should be hundreds of millions of thank yous. Pass the word that we can honor and support the defenders of freedom.

http://www.defendamerica.mil/nmam.html

posted by chance at 4:22:08 PM

[ 12240 comments ]

Saturday, February 22, 2003

I hate the fact that browsers do not store the download location of files in the comments section of file info on OS X!!!!

I need some help... I downloaded a Flash .fla file called listReorderComp.fla. I don't remember where I got it and I can't find any information on the original author, or find it on any search engines. I have re-written it to work with Flash 5, and I may use the re-written code in a project I am working on. I want to give credit where credit is due, but I can't unless I find the original author.

It is an example of drag and drop re-ordering of list elements in a ScrollPane component. If you know who wrote this, or where the original file might be found, I would appreciate the help.

Thanks.

posted by chance at 9:23:08 AM

[ 13497 comments ]

Thursday, February 13, 2003

The Communities of Macromedia and Adobe

Since I've been working in Flash a lot lately, I could help but be pulled into the universe of the Macromedia blog community. I was stunned to find blogs that were honest and just... I don't know... normal and human but above all honest from developers and managers at Macromedia where there are frank discussions of bugs and limitations, and honest dialog with the Flash developer community. I don't think I have ever seen such open discussion between a corporation and its customers. It is truly a thing of beauty, and benefits both sides. Macromedia is very aware of what their customers want and need and their customers feel they really have a say in the development of the tools that they use. I know I'm re-hashing some of what Mr. Dominey says, but I just wanted ot add my voice to the idea that this is a good thing.

posted by chance at 8:53:56 AM

[ 2010 comments ]

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

I'd never seen this before and thought I'd share. It reminded me of my own childhood and how much different my son's life is and is going to be. Makes me wonder what the hell happened? How carefree are our kids going to be growing up? How much social responsibility are they going to learn on their own? How much farther away from this carefree youth are our children's children's lives going to be?

I Can't Believe We Made It!
If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.

(Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!)

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

No cell phones. Unthinkable. We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us. Remember accidents?

We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda but we were never overweight...we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them.

Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do it?

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment..... Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.....Horrors. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.

Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them.�

Congratulations!

posted by chance at 12:13:57 PM

[ 1075 comments ]

Thursday, February 06, 2003

As you can tell from my inactivity over the last year, I've been sort of busy. A lot has happened, a lot of which I can't talk about, and a lot of which would just take too long to go through, so it looks like I'm going to start a new.

As a new site feature, I finally added an rss feed in case you want to keep up with the new doings at the requiredfield through one of those spanky little news reader utilities. (I personally use NetNewsWire Lite for OS X.)

I've been doing a lot of work in Flash and I think it's finally time to abandon the HTML and move on to a better interface environment. Not that it's going to happen any time soon, but you can look forward to that in the future. I will try to keep everyone appraised of the progress as it is made.

I'm also going to be re-writing the blog system I've been using for so long. It just isn't suited for use with an RSS feed, so I'm going to take it back to the drawing board as well. I wrote it after spending time with the blog apps of the time and growing frustrated that they didn't do what I wanted, so I decided to write my own. Now that the world has progressed since I wrote it, I now find myself in that same position I did when I first wrote it, it doesn't do what I want it to do. Time to progress...

posted by chance at 10:57:23 AM

[ 590 comments ]

Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
In Words of Four Letters or Less

[via metafilter]

posted by chance at 8:44:59 AM

[ 15768 comments ]

Saturday, February 01, 2003

In Memorium Columbia

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds--and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of--wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence, hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along,
And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

��- RCAF Flight-Lieutenant John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922-1941)

posted by chance at 10:37:32 AM

[ 12225 comments ]

Thursday, January 30, 2003

For all you guys that decided to show your spirit in the recent anti-war protests, do you know who you're siding with?

Authoritarian Opportunists Who Cozy Up To Genocidal Dictators - for Peace (International A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.)

Who's behind International A.N.S.W.E.R

Hey, I'm all for individual expression and your right to express your opinion, but you might want to take a look at who you're siding with.

posted by chance at 1:29:08 PM