About TBOH

Welcome you lovely people you.

This site is the playground of the The Burned Out Hippy, owner of the web design and multimedia company Plagro.com. It serves no other purpose than to act as a place where I can store my most recent Flash ActionScript experiments and general musings about the industry. However, I will be posting code whenever an experiment is complete so that you can have a play with it yourselves.

I can’t guarantee that the experiments here will be original ideas as most of the time I’m just trying to get things to work. Nor can I guarantee that the code is “best practice” or will work 100% of the time as I am primarily a designer, not a developer.

But if you find any of the code here useful, you are welcome to use any of my work in exchange for a simple link credit (I don’t even mind if it’s a hidden link, as long as its HTML) to either this website or www.plagro.com. Links are worth their weight in gold. Presuming of course you could weigh links. Which you can’t.

As you will see as time progresses, my current aim is to simplify rather than be 100% original. I believe that in order to reach the ultimate goal of originality, you need to be able to pull efficiently on your previous experiences. I often get locked into chunks of code that take me a lifetime to debug and cause me real headaches, even though I know that I’ve produced similar pieces of code in the past. It’s disheartening and often I lose track of my goal because of it. My background is in Computer Science, but I realised quite early on that I would much rather spend my time designing rather than be knee deep in complex algorithms. So the ultimate aim of my experiments is to make my life easier and to allow me a little more creative freedom. If it helps you achieve the same, bonus.

Hope you enjoy your stay

Big man hugs,

TBOH