Platform Ponderings

Much has been said already about Adobe’s new approach to marketing it’s Flash “Platform” http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/ so I’m not going to beat a dead horse.  But I find it very interesting.  Flash has always been a bit of a square peg in the round hole of web and multimedia design.  To really use it effectively the [...]

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Expelled

I just saw Ben Stein’s recent film, “Expelled”.  It is a documentary that makes several arguments for the possibility of Intelligent Design.  It also exposes some conspiracy theories about the scientific establishment’s suppression of research in the area of intelligent design.  I found the film very interesting.  The arguments it made were very convincing, and [...]

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Japanese Political Music Videos

I Just found the reason that Obama is ahead in the polls:

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In the News

I had an interesting discussion with one of my professors the other day that I thought I would share.  I am a self proclaimed “News Junkie”, rabidly gathering news about anything from any source I can like an addict running free in a methadone clinic.  I learned early in my media consumption that there are [...]

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An ode to AS2

“AS2
I liked you
But then I learned AS3
And now I hate working on my old AS2 projects”
- Chris Hall, 2008

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USANA’s Media Center

I’m not sure I ever showed it here, but the “Media Center” project I did for USANA has been up for a while and seems to be working well. It was a great project for me because of the sole ownership I was given over it. I got to do everything from conception to code [...]

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Kudos to Flash on Tap

As mentioned in a previous post, Flash on Tap has been postponed until May of 2009.  The schedule change incurred some rescheduling fees (airline, etc..), which I thought that Flash on Tap should be responsible for.  I wrote some fairly negative things about Flash on Tap on my blog, which were eventually seen by Laura [...]

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How I got Screwed by Flash on Tap

**Please read this UPDATE before reading this post**
Ok, let me set the scenario. I lived in Boston for two years, and it’s one of my favorite places on earth. I now live in the west, and making trips back to Boston is hard financially and logistically ( I have 2 young kids and [...]

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Back to School

Well, I just completed my first assignments as a graduate student.  I am quite a bit rustier that I thought I would be.  What have I done?  Sorry Kelly.

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