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Magical!
I made a funneh:
I’m not trying to be an Apple hater, but this letter just cracked me up.
https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02appleletter.html
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FiTC San Francisco
A couple more travel items on my agenda this year. First, I’ll be going on my annual (nearly annual anyway) family trip to Japan in the beginning of July. I’ll be there for a couple of weeks. We stay with my wife’s family in Kuwanashi, near Nagoya, on the edge of a mountain range, rice fields and farms on every side. You probably won’t see much (if any) of me on IM or twitter, though I’ll probably make a few blog posts, more likely at keithpeters.org than here. I look forward to some very scenic runs out there though. We have plenty of day trips planned, and we’ll be driving to Kyoto to spend a couple of days there as well.
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FlashBelt Monday Run!
The FlashBelt Run is on! Monday morning, June 14, nice and early. I’m thinking of around 7 a.m. That will give us time to get in a few miles, then shower up and get to the keynote by 9:15.
Thus far, looks like we have the following showing interest:
Me
Jeni H.
Vic C.
Veronique B.
Brandon M.
Terry P.But no need to RSVP. I think we’ll just leave from the front of the hotel (Holiday Inn Metrodome) right around 7:00. Just show up there with running gear. I’ll post any changes in this post, so check back right here.
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FlashBelt Geek Run?
I’ll be at FlashBelt in MN, arriving this coming Sunday morning, and staying through until Thursday morning. I’d like to get at least 2-3 runs in while I’m there and I know that there are several of you in the Flash community. So want to see if anyone wants to get together for a run.
At this point it looks like I’ll at least be going for a run on Monday and Tuesday morning before the conference. Probably 3-4 miles each day. Anyone up for it, contact me at kp – at – bit-101.com
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Digsby: Warning
Someone recommended the program Digsby to me today. I watched the video on their site. It seems to be a multi-service IM client with Twitter, Facebook, email, and other social network services built in. A lot of stuff in the video actually turned me off, like “what if you could update your status on all your networks at once?” Well, I hate that idea. I always hated going to someone’s facebook page and seeing that it was just all their tweets, or vice versa. Besides, having just quit facbook, the only social network I use is twitter and I like TweetDeck for that.
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Not fighting your technology war
A series of comments on an earlier post tempted me to get drawn into an HTML5 vs Flash and a iPhone/iPad vs anything else and a Windows vs PC battle. And I must admit, I did get drawn in to posting some comments on another blog on a rather sensationalist Android vs iPhone post.
But the truth is, I’m trying very hard to stay out of all these battles. I really don’t care what you do, what platform you use, what kind of phone you use, what language you develop in, or what kind of devices you develop for. One resolution I’ve made recently is to try to avoid the word “should”, as in “you should buy this device” or “you should try that platform”. Do what you want. I assume you’re doing it because you enjoy it. If not, well, that seems kind of stupid, but then again, you must have some other reasons for doing something you don’t enjoy. But the point is, you are doing what you are doing for a reason, and I have no interest in changing your mind.
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Scientific American
In the June 2010 issue of Scientific American, on page 58, there is an article entitled, “Is Time an Illusion?” by Craig Callender. You can see it here:
The large artwork on the first and last pages of the story, and a bit more subtly in some of the in between pages, is by yours truly.
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Flash on the Beach 2010
A few people have noticed and a few people have asked me about it, so to clear the air, no, I am not speaking at Flash on the Beach this year. But yes, I will most likely be attending. No bad blood anywhere. In fact I was hanging out with Mr. John Davey extensively last week at Multi-Mania in Belgium, having many a Belgian beer and good laugh.
I’ve spoken at FOTB every year since the beginning. It has become more than just my favorite conference, but a kind of personal mecca. Something about the atmosphere and the people who assemble there and the town and the venue just all adds up for a great experience for me. I would certainly love to speak there every year. But last year, I was talking to John and he was mentioning the need to mix things up a bit, not have the same line up year after year. So I said that if he wanted to bench me, that was fine. And so I have the year off.
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BIT-101, coming to a FlashBelt near you!
I’m a bit behind on my conference reports, so a quick recap so far.
In April I went to FiTC Toronto. This was my 5th time speaking at TO. I skipped last year to do Amsterdam instead. I have to say that this was one of the most enjoyable FiTC’s I’ve been to in quite a while. Part of that is me – I think they always put on a decent conference, but my mind was just not into it last year in Amsterdam and the year before in TO. This year I was really relaxed and had a great time hanging out with new and old friends, seeing some great presentations, and just generally digging the community vibe. It was a bit more mellow than some others. A few people mentioned that. I guess we’re all getting a bit older. No need to be out til dawn every night going crazy.
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Debugging Flash on New Google Chrome
If you’ve installed the latest version of Google Chrome, and you are having a problem debugging your Flash in it, there’s a reason. As you may have heard, Chrome now comes pre-installed with the Flash player. For good reasons, this is not the debug version of the player. All well and good, you go over to Adobe.com and re-install the debug player of your choice and debug your latest project… still no debugging. Hmm… If you’re like me, you “solve” this by switching to Firefox for debugging. I finally found out what’s happening though.
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