Monday, March 29, 2010

I have decided
Stuff incident experienced at 21:29 on March 29th. Posted in Igor’s stuff at 23:18.
Tags: bright, garish, orange, ridiculous, shoes, yellow
I have decided
Bright shoes are where it's at. They force you to be a cheery goon, which is clearly highly desirable. I've gone so far as to throw away my old dull, dark shoes. That ain't me no more.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Balloonacy
Stuff incident experienced at 01:42 on June 26th. Posted in Igor’s stuff at 10:19.
Tags: balloon race, balloonacy, balloons, code, geek, orange, poke
Balloonacy
After an intense last 10 days’ sprint spent finishing and polishing, we launched Balloonacy on Tuesday 24th with a grand total of over 30,000 balloons and 840 sites signed up and accepted into the race. Seems to be going really well; people are playing and writing nice things about it, the system’s holding up (captain), the client’s happy and, in short, we’ve made animal-shaped balloons float across Internet. Which is nice.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Play Balloonacy
Scribbled to Igor’s scrawls at 13:08
Tags: balloonacy, balloonrace, balloons, code, geek, orange, poke

Hot on the heels of Spot the Bull comes POKE’s next big campaign for Orange, Balloonacy. It’s a balloon race across Internet. No, really. It’s in its sign–up phase at the moment; the race itself starts on June 23rd.


You can launch a balloon or sign your site up to be part of the map, and if your balloon gets the furthest you can win a holiday in Ibiza.

It’s the biggest project we’ve built using our home–grown, bare–bones, remote–MVC framework, “Death Star”, and the first in which we’ve integrated it with AS3.

A lot of POKErs have been involved in this, including Iain who came up with the idea in the first place. Design is by Marc, Nicky and Dickon. In the client-side tech team, we have extreme Flash & pattern action by Dezza, with code & Papervision help from Gabes, and lovely Flash 9 sheen from POKE’s very own Caroline B. Stepping back from the Flash, we have front-end build and Death Star CMS delights from Greg; JS integration wizardry and Death Star coding from Mattias; Death Star coding, AMF services and database tomfoolery by Nilesh; system & platform architecture and team leading by mine own evil hand. Project managed by Mike who’s done his damnedest to keep us all sane. Ish.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Fresh juice
Stuff incident experienced at 00:00. Posted in Igor’s stuff at 07:17.
Tags: carrot and lemon, carrot, fresh, juice, lemon, orange, orange
Fresh juice
After living in my current flat for nearly 2 years, I’ve finally got it together to have my windows cleaned. There’s quite a lot of window, you see, and it’s quite high, meaning it’s a job requiring someone who knows what they’re doing. To that end, this morning someone who knows exactly that came ’round at the appointed hour to scrub off the myriad layers of grime, and while I was sitting around waiting for the task to be finished, I took the opportunity to make fresh juice with that oh-so-difficult-to-clean and therefore oh-so-rarely-used juicer; 2 oranges, 2 carrots and a lemon. Pow. As the mop and the blade cut through the collected crud of city rain and bluster, the crystal orange sweetness, mixed into the pappy carrot base, combines with razor-sharp lemon zeal to slice through the swathes of sleepiness, and clarity is all around.