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.
Yep for the mac lovers out ther, they will know Growls notifications well, and for windoze users its like that stupid yellow speech bubble that pops up over the system tray, but looks and interacts a lot cooler.
Well you can thank Christian Cantrell and his team for creating the start of a free library to do this in air hassel free. And called it Purr (gota' love that). Christian has a post on his blog outlining a handy trick he learn't about fading non embedded text and the source is stored HERE in the google code repo It makes use of all the swanky new features of the new AIR beta
Cheers guys and keep the cool libs coming.
Well Ryan has broken the news here Adobe has bought Buzzword. Buzzword was a super sweet doc editor created in Flex by Virtual Ubiquity. I guess most people saw an acquisition coming for them but I never imagined Adobe. This means Adobe are now entering into both Microsoft's and Google's world. Also a post on Virtual Ubiquity's blog.
but wait theres more, not only do you get a news release with details on another Adobe acquisition but you get this free tid bit of information about a new Adobe product called Share a new product. Ill update this post once I manage to get onto it Till then there is a quick blog post on the newly created http://blogs.adobe.com/share/.
I have long wished Macromedia had never stopped Flash paper. PDFs are to big and bulky and the plugin feels clumsy in a browser window. Flash paper swfs always felt right. So this seems like we might see some movement in this area again, which is great news.
