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Flash/Flex for Linux: it's BS!

Based on al the hubbub around Adobe making Flash/Flex stuff available for Linux, I have to comment that none of it is available for Linux.  It's available for Linux/i386, which is a totally different beast (Linux running on the i386 architecture).  It excludes Linux running on any other architecture (such as PPC or SPARC).
So please, [...]

Sign Language

Heather and I have two kids: Lindsay who will be three in January, and Emery who turned one in August.  Around a year of age, we taught both of them a few bits of sign language for when they had the mental capacity to communicate, but not the vocal control to do it aurally.  Nothing [...]

Now only Mostly Human

For the first time in my life, I'm now only mostly human.  Yesterday I had hernia surgery and got a plastic mesh implant to help strengthen the hole in my abdominal wall where the plumbing for my testicles passes through.  In a nutshell, the hole is supposed to be tight (only enough to let the [...]

Charlie's Stalking

Charlie Arehart is stalking bloggers, and wants the bloggers to help.  Just kidding, of course, but he makes a good point about the anonymity of a lot of blogs.  I can't say I'm all over the personal sharing, but I've at least got my name and a contact form available.  People can build enormous personal [...]

Sudoku Anyone?

For my birthday last month, Heather (my wife) got me a book of Sudoku puzzles.  If you like puzzles and haven't tried Sudoku, highly recommended.  Simple and fun.
However, being the good computer geek that I am, I quickly decided that it'd be a heck of a lot easier to let the computer solve them for [...]

Mike's 6:45am Phone Call

If your name is Mike, you called me at 6:45 am Pacific time and said something about queries of queries and then gave me your phone number, please call me back.  In my sleepy stupor failed to write down the number correctly, and calling it just says "the call cannot be completed as dialed".

An Apple a Day…

Round N in the Barney vs. Apple battle played out this evening.  Far less significant than my unending PowerBook issues (grey screens, refusal to accept RAM, etc.), but annoying none the less.
I "won" an iPod shuffle down at the Wild Kingdom exhibit the Rose Festival last week, and installed iTunes on my PC (which is [...]

New Adobe.com and the Power of Flash

As is old news by now, the new Adobe.com is live, and they've done a great job.  In my mind, definitely eclipsing either the old Adobe.com or Macromedia.com in terms of design.  However, the demons of Flash bite again, and come with a huge helping of irony since Adobe is the purveyor:

JS Remoting PDX-CFUG Presentation

Last Thursday I presented at the PDX CFUG on JS remoting and composite UIs.  I've uploaded my presentation and example code as a ZIP archive, and also made it available for direct preview.
Thanks to all who attended, and my apologies for having to jet out of there in such a rush, but the whole "getting [...]

Google Calendar Quick Add

When Google Calendar went public a couple days ago, I finally got to abandon my Yahoo! account for good, which doesn't pain me one little bit.  Nice interface, kind of rough in places, but it's brand friggin' new, so it's expected.  Fortunately, I was able to export/import all my events from Yahoo! directly into Google [...]