Friday, December 30th, 2005

Can’t believe christmas is already over! It was nice to spend a couple of days @ home and being lazy with the family. I had been so busy that being a bum and just hanging out was nice.

Work is good so far. We’ll see how it pans out over the course of the next few months. I think I’m going to be busy with that and freelance on top of the 9-5.

Hope everyone had a great christmas!

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Saturday, December 24th, 2005

I can’t believe it’s already Christmastime! Amazing how fast time has flown this month. Seems like just yesterday it was Thanksgiving, and before that in Orlando. It’s only been a few short months but I’ve been so busy that it’s been a blur.

I finished my Christmas shopping tonight, and have everything wrapped up and ready to go. I have a family party tomorrow afternoon (thankfully the Bucs v. Falcons game will be on to keep me occupied), then it’s back to Alpharetta to get ready for the ‘real’ Christmas with my immediate family. It also means the best meal of the year will be served. My mom cooks one mean xmas dinner.

I also start at my new job next week - I’m pretty excited for a few reasons. This independent contractor stuff should be interesting, not to mention I can’t wait to start working more with Flash at the new job. I plan on getting certified in the coming weeks as well, which can’t hurt.

Speaking of Flash, look for a flash portfolio in the next few weeks as well. I’ve been messing around with some ideas and finally came up with something I really like. I’ll post it here when it’s done.

Anyhow, hope everyone has a great holiday!

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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

My quest to have my cable bill be worth paying for continues. I originally planned on getting DirecTV (and the NFL Sunday ticket package that gives you all the NFL games), but the area I live in has such poor reception, I opted for Charter.  I figured that I’d just get the “sports package” offered by them, thus giving me access to the NFL network - one of my favorite channels on TV.  They have tons of shows previewing games coming up, showing results and the best games over the past few years.

Looks like Charter decided they weren’t getting enough return from having NFL Network on board, so they dropped it yesterday.  I came home to watch some TV, and all of my favorite shows were recorded by TiVo … but it was just a black screen.  Thanks guys.

Anyway, I’ve downgraded to regular service for now and I’ll try to find a Cable provider worth a damn around here. I think Comcast has most of what I want… we’ll see.

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Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

I’m no longer part of the 18-25 age range, which renders me a mere mortal.

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Monday, December 5th, 2005

Todd Dominey noticed (via Colin Moock) that Adobe has finally made public some of their plans for the future of Macromedia products, now that the 2 companies have merged. One of the first orders of business? Merging the acrobat reader and flash player, creating an end all - be all content delivery plugin. I just get the sinking feeling that this product will be bloated, slow, and fugly. I’m still curious to see what is to become of the rest of the Studio suite, as I honestly like most of Macromedia’s tools (especially since Studio 8) more than Adobe’s bloated apps.

I bought Studio 8 about a month ago, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens to freehand, fireworks & golive/dreamweaver. I can see them selling some of these apps to another developer or canning them outright. Hopefully golive is marketed as an entry-level web creation tool and dreamweaver can still stick around for those that use it. Only time will tell, I suppose.

Let the feature creep begin!

Posted on December 5th, 2005 | 1 Comment »