http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php a sarcastic mixture of drinking, fighting and developing Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:18:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love the smell of a conference in the morning. Not really, more of the pre-conference coffee. It's taken me pretty much all day to get to a stage where I think I can have a 1 hour rush tomorrow and be completely packed and ready to go. I'm watching ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/09/22/you-dont-believe-were-on-the-eve-of-directions/ Okay, I'm kiiiiiinda sure this is the first time I've blogged when drunk. When I mean first time, I mean, I'm sure I have, I just cant remember at this exact point in time, and when I mean kinda, I mean quite. I've got a few things to look forward ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/09/14/drunken-ramblings/ For whatever reason, a while ago, I decided I wanted to learn to play flamenco guitar. So far I haven't exactly done well, but I decided to record a little clip now and then of my playing. I recorded a clip after playing for about 4 hours just to get ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/08/23/see-al-strum-strum-al-strum/ As per the conditions of my parole, I thought I'd write my quarterly Web-based blog post on something I found the other day. I was working on a tables(don't cringe or vomit, they can be done properly and be used properly) and to make it look nice, there was a ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/07/30/background-image-on-table-rows-repeating/ I don't know why, but everything seems to remind me of an episode of the Simpsons in some way: Is it just me? http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/07/23/say-it-isnt-snow/ For a few months, a friend of mine from Kung Fu has been researching the benefits of Royal Jelly on earthlings. After looking around for a while she decided it was worth a try and tracked down a months supply. Unfortunately, 3 days into the trial, she decided the taste ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/07/20/because-i-like-weird-things-27-day-trial/ Having just finalised my accommodation at a pub and Web Directions Workshop, I can sit back and tilt my chair. Last year I went to Web Directions in Sydney, as a guy whose skill set is somewhat limited I was stunned by the amount of awesome presentations and the passion ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/07/09/web-directions-south-2008/ Everyone is probably well aware of my geekiness. I play a lot of video games, I have near encyclopaedic knowledge of various cartoons, I've been a tabletop gamer for who knows how long now(and still have 5 armies on the go) and I even played WoW for quite a while. ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/06/30/little-al-goes-to-supanova/ Recently I've been flickr-ing a lot of foody pics. I used to get a lot of comments about how a 'guy like me' got into cooking, so I thought I'd do a bit of a post on it. For starters, I know a lot of guys like me that enjoy ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/06/02/if-yan-can-cook/ Every now and then something makes me tilt my chair backwards and clap my hands in childish glee. Well, okay, it's pretty damn often, but today I was shown (via Twitter) a Man in Blue experiment called Cubescape. Its an amazing experiment and the animation looks very cool. Not ... http://www.mynameisal.com/index.php/2008/05/13/cubescape-pew-pew/