Greg Bradley

Another tough game without a full side. We were down a player and weren't able to get much of a game happening. An even worse scoreline than last week.

For various reasons we didn't play for a few weeks. After the break our first game back was against Ibble Dibbles. We both started with five players, but they soon got a sixth and from then on we didn't stand a chance. It was good to have a run after a few weeks off but looking forward to playing a better game with a full side.

Added better support for frames. Menu now opens in the top left corner of page instead of the centre, so the title bar is always visible even in small frames. Menu can be pinned to the page when scrolling. Added a word count function at the page level, so you can count all words on the current page. Fixed the Check image sizes function which had a bad bug preventing it from working at all. Fixed the IMDb lookup function which had an old URL.

Learn some cool hacking tricks by progressively solving the puzzles on this site.

Another usability site with some examples of good and bad web design.

Amazing DHTML version of the classic Lemmings game. Play it online now. I would never have thought you could build something like this in DHTML, or at least I never thought anybody would bother. It's something special. Only problem I did have playing was sometimes it's hard to select the Lemming you want to when there are a lot in the same area.

A story from the late 90's, this guy managed to deposit what was supposed to be a sample cheque. This is a long article but an interesting and funny read.

Old schoolyard game now available without the pain.

Had another good game against one of the new teams. We took the early lead and were always in control. A couple of times they got close but we kept our cool and secured the win.

I didn't play this game and a few of our regulars were away. It was a close game and one that the team thought they should have won.

Played one of the new teams from B grade for the first time tonight. Thought it was going to be a tough game and it felt like a bit of an effort, but the scoreline suggests it was an easy win. It was a fun game and not as one sided as the score suggests.

Very nice looking portfolio built in Flash, but not yet complete.

Our first game of the new season was against Ibble Dibbles whom we beat in the finals. This season though we only have for of our same players from last season so it's going to take us a few games to get used to the new team. We played a good game but were completely outsized and struggled at times to find our rhythm. Not too bad for our first game but we should definitely be able to improve from here.

Last week we launched Noodolbot.com for Maggi to promote their 2 Minute Noodles brand. It was built using Flash MX and requires the Flash 6 plugin. It's aimed at younger children and is very interactive. It was one of the easiest projects I have worked on for a while, but probably one of the largest also. The site looks great thanks to the designers and animators who worked on the project. If you are in Australia and New Zealand run down to your local store and buy some noodles and register to check it all out. Otherwise, have a look at some areas now without having to register.

An Iraqi 404 page. Even Google has trouble finding any evidence of such weapons. Check out the highest ranked result (for the time being).

The final against Ibble Dibbles was an amazing game. We always have great games against them and we were keen to reverse last seasons semi final where they kicked us out of the finals. As usual the game started slowly with tough defence from both sides. It was a real battle to score points and by half time they were leading 6 to 5. The second half didn't start very well for us as Ibble Dibbles scored a few more points. We were struggling and running out of time, but because it was a low scoring game we still had a bit of a chance. With only 6 minutes remaining they went to a 10 to 5 lead as we had failed to score yet in the second half. Then all of a sudden something clicked and we went on an amazing 10 point unanswered run to seal the victory. They were a bit disappointed and it's a shame we couldn't play so well for the whole game, but it was enough to win the final and it feels great!

Congratulations to the team once again! A great season with the perfect ending. We have one week off before it all starts again.

We ended up finishing 4th overall at the end of the regular season. It was very close at the top and we missed out on a higher position simply on percentage. So in the semi final we were up against Lifted Kilts who finished on top. The other semi final was played between Ibble Dibbles and Horatio Hornblowers.

Lifted Kilts only had 6 players at the start of the game so that gave us a bit of an advantage. We started well and had a few points on the board before they scored their first. It was slow going for a while but we kept the lead by a few points. About half way through the first half their missing player arrived and joined the game. Near the end of the first half we went on a bit of a run and had a nice half time lead of 11 to 6.

They regrouped in the second half and came out and scored the first couple of points. When it looked like they were going to take control of the game we steadied and turned things back into our favour. We went on a massive run and help them to just a few more points. It was some of our best play for the season and we controlled the whole court. Even with their full team in the second half we outscored them just as much as the first half. It's not often that team 4 knocks out team 1 in the first semi, but as I said the top 4 teams were very close throughout the entire season.

Ibble Dibbles won the other semi so we play them next week. We beat them early in the season and then had a nasty loss when we only had 5 players. This time around with a full team and coming off a couple of good wins we should be able to win the final.

I'm thinking of making this a new section on my site. Starting to become a common occurrence.

Again Telstra is causing me grief with their trouble prone online billing system. I received my latest paper bill and then went online to pay it like I normally do. However, the online billing system is showing that the last bill is still unpaid and shows no information about the new bill. Luckily the new paper bill shows that the last payment was received and they were able to confirm this when I called support. They told me that a few people had reported problems with the online bills and hopefully somebody was looking into it, but they didn't sound too sure. I'll just wait a few weeks and see if it gets sorted out.

Only had six players again this week. Took us a little while to get started, but once we did eventually grab the lead we managed to stay in front for the rest of the game. It was always close but we play hard when we had to and kept the game under control. They were getting very frustated towards the end and started mouthing off a bit.

Had a pretty good game against Moes Team. Probably could have done even better. We haven't been playing enough games lately - this was my first game in eight weeks.