Update: Ok, so I’m a spazz. I recognised the backing track in the TV ad for Telstra, and later when I went to my PC to work out what it was, I was tricked by the Arovane track, Goodbye Forever (after listening to it, and without the TV ad to listen to again to check). The track used is actually Trentemøller - Miss You – a completely separate, though similarly beautiful track. Sorry Anders (and Arovane) for having been mistaken!
Since I have the video link for Arovane track here already, you may as well enjoy it. :o)
When the blazing sun is gone, when he nothing shines upon, then I show my little light: twinkle, twinkle all the night. In the dark blue sky I keep, while the city falls asleep, for I ne’er shut my eye ’till the sun is in the sky. Though you know not how I am, I’m just fine, thankyou ma’am.
-G.
I’d initially misread the question as the asker wondering who I am, which I might be wondering myself, but no…
As I wait at home alone, in a queue for Vodafone,
Basked in points of fairly light, before I head out for the night,
A voice, it tells me just to hold – good thing I’m not out in the cold.
Sitting wondering in this time, I search that twinkling nursery rhyme.
I know a deeper meaning must lie beneath the shallow crust
Of three or six lines from the tune familiar as the dish and spoon.
One hand to talk, one hand to hear – the phone it pressed against my ear,
An eye to see, a mind to guide, a pizza box (Intel Inside)
Quickly wrought an answer loose, attributed to ‘Mother Goose’.
But now I’ve whiled the time away, it’s time to bid to you good day!
I’ve been reading a couple of books on Actionscript (Flash) programming, but not managing to get much hands-on time. Here is a tiny sample of a ‘spaceship’ simulation. Many spaceships, even. Try pressing the up, left and right arrow keys! :o)
I think I must be getting old. Nostalgic. Back in the day, when I was a long-haired uni student, a lot of my friends knew me as ‘Bill’, the nickname I used online. Being a regular kind of name name, people often thought it was my real name, or just remembered it more easily. Anyhoo… I had a Geocities website (now Yahoo! Geocities), as was the trend at the time which hung around for a while. I guess it was the day’s MySpace. I have a copy of the main graphics dated early to mid 1998, and pages that were updated on 25/Jun/2001 for a reappearance at the time. The index page was last modified on 09/Aug/2001, and now the site reappears once again!
Original Banner Graphic from “Bill’s Website” circa 1997-98
The graphics were hand-crafted by me – a result of playing with Photoshop (3?) for a few days – and aren’t actually half bad. Well, they weren’t at the time! :o) The Nine Inch Nails discography pages were absolute hell to make, especially the Tracks page – hand crafted list of every track, listed in order of track name, hyperlinked to the album/release it is from on one of the other pages. Probably written using Notepad or maybe even the EDIT.COM DOS text editor! Dreamweaver, eat your heart out!
