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?
Ok so we have alot of volcanoes in New Zealand. One new website startup www.mintshot.co.nz decided to simulate an eruption using smoke flares.
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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.
After having taken the week off to work on my mustang (it gets me off the computer) I had my birthday on Saturday. Im old at the age of 28 in this game. Got a great present from my girlfriend and my parents. They got me a track day at Taupo in a V8 Supercar. I get to nail it round the track and cause all sorts of mischief.
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.
Are you a gamer? do you BF2142?
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 
