For those not in the know this convertible mustang started out in a bad way when I found her

I rebuilt the chassis (frame for the US people) and then proceeded to pretty much replace the entire body. Getting it on the chassis machine to check my workmanship etc.

After replacing the entire floor in both the cabin and the boot (trunk) I then had to replace most the engine bay and outer panels….weeeee. Along haul but I can now say I have built a car from scratch.

I also won some awesome Bridgestone rubber so I decided to splash out some pretty mags

Lately I have been slowly putting it back together as time and weather allowed

I went to welding school at MIT to get my welding tickets so I could do everything myself. Its kind of a nice way to break away from the computer and do something with my hands. Now comes the task of panel work and using as little bog (bondo) as possible to get her straight and off to the paint shop. So stay tuned for the beach run photos but as its hailing outside at the moment that may be a while off.

OFFICAL:

“All you have to do is submit a hand of our incredibly collectable trading cards to the friendly conference staff, and if it’s one of the highest scoring hands, you could be in for a share of the goodies.”

So theres prizes to win and cards to trade/pilfer. Anyone else from NZ heading to WebDU? Ping me if you are and we should head out in force to one of the many social events

Can’t wait to see them in real life? you can check out a preview HERE

But watch the fine print. Even at low resolution I can make out some fairly strange topics covered in the rules which will lead to all sorts of shenanigans at the conference.

Great work guys…. and Minty how do I get a cartoon of me? they rock so much.

With flash player based document editors starting to come out of the woodwork, AKA Buzzword, Live documents etc, I start to wonder whats Adobes strategy here. They bought Virtual Ubiquity (creators of Buzzword) which would suggest some sort on invested interest in the direction of these sorts of applications.

But what happened to my favorite bastard offshoot Flash paper? – you know basically the printer driver from Macromedia that allowed you to print off swf's of a word document that were wrapped in a nice viewer, tiny in size compared to PDF's and didn't lock up the browser when viewed inline with html web pages.

I know the future is supposed to be PDF, but I wonder if extending the the Flash Paper document API and getting it ready for this new breed of apps would be a good step. All we don't need is another closed proprietary format on the web you say. Open source it along with Flex 3's framework I say. Adobe now has the experience as they have the Buzzword crew. Wouldn't it be nice?

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"The publicity stunt was lead by mintshot director Marc Ellis, who along with fellow directors Ben Hickey and Nick Dalton ascended Rangitoto in the early hours of the morning and using smoke flares simulated an eruption of the extinct volcano."

"The stunt has been a covert operation for all involved. A behind the scenes account of this guerilla marketing stunt will be revealed on 20/20 (TV2) at 9.30pm tonight (Thursday 15th November)."

Aparently they wanted 100,000 signups in the first 48 hrs. This is in a country of 3.5 million. I wonder how they did. 

DAMN COOL cant wait.

Along with all of that I have been catching up on some Halo3 practice and playing with some of the many ideas floating round in my head. Now im back at work and have to get next months Flex usergroup meeting sorted out. 

I have been thinking about setting up a Battle field server on my …. uhh server, and just wanted to get a feel for who would be interested in the community. Unfortunately New Zealand has the first beer O'clock in the world ( friday beers after work ) but I could leave the server up so I can drop in and PWN some other flex/flash coders over the weekend.

Hit the comments if you are keen, or some other game maybe? Could be a great way to get one up on the AS masters out there (JesterXl looking in your direction).

Well its just about finished here in NZ but the photos are starting to appear.

THIS IS COOL 

I wonder if Ill turn into a silverlight fanboy during the eclipse