A friend of mine (Tim Aste) recently posted a Facebook entry about Dub Fx.  I followed the YouTube link in the post and gave it a listen. I listened for a bit and thought, "interesting idea, not bad."  Then, this particular live performance (Dub FX 18/04/2009 'Made') got to about 2:20 and I was hooked.

I've since looked up several other Dub Fx songs on YouTube and given them a listen.  Interestingly, his live performances are frequently better than his studio performances.  I especially like the live renditions of Made (from Tim's link) and Flow (Dub FX 18/04/2009 'Flow' feat. Woodnote).

My suggestion to you: "Give some of these songs/performances a listen and decide for yourself."  Dub Fx sells albums and individual songs through various sites, so if you like them you can snag some additions to your personal collection easily enough.

Cheers,

edo out

Just a quick post to show off our new 4.25" layer of (surprise) snow.  (The first image is out our front door, looking at the neighbors home.  They're so festive.  The second shot is a partial shot of the backyard, focused mainly on the double-happiness symbol in the corner of our garden/bird feeding area.)

... all my time up.

I'm a sucker for just about any post-apocalyptic game.  So, when I saw Borderlands for the first time, it was pretty much fait accompli that I should buy it.

The only real question was, buy it at full price, or wait and buy at a discount when it had been out for a while?

Well, I didn't wait, and I'm glad I didn't.  Hopefully I don't sound too trite, but this game rocks! I'm still playing through single-player, but I'm sure I'll soon venture into multi-player/co-op -ville soon enough.

And Stay Down!

If you are thinking about getting this game, I suggest you do it.  I don't think you'll regret it.

I added a new common library to TSTK for actionMaps.
This common library adds two new (user) methods:

• ActionMap::bindMulti( %this, %device, %action, %object, %callback );
• ActionMap::unbindMulti( %this, %device, %action, %object, %callback );

The "bindMulti()" function allows you to bind the same input (key, button, etc.) to more than one callback. Typically, you can only bind one function (or object + method) to any specific input. However, in some cases it is useful to have the ability to bind the same input to more than one function (or object + method). For example. If you wanted to allow a key press to fire multiple weapons, you could simply use "bindMulti()" to bind the same key to each of the callbacks for each different weapon (see code sample below):

function firstWeapon::fire( %this, %val ) {
// ... more code
}
function secondWeapon::fireMe( %this, %val ) {
// ... more code
}
function thirdWeapon::fireMeToo( %this, %val ) {
// ... more code
}

moveMap.bindMulti( "Keyboard", "space", firstWeapon, "fire" );
moveMap.bindMulti( "Keyboard", "space", secondWeapon, "fireMe" );
moveMap.bindMulti( "Keyboard", "space", thirdWeapon, "fireMeToo" );


In the above example, three different weapons and their respective callbacks have been mapped to the same key (the spacebar).

I hope you find this useful.

Cheers,

edo

PS - I'm still working on getting a faster site. Sorry for the slowwwwness!