Where oh where does the time go? For those who read this blog for the technical content, I noticed Simon Willison’s Weblog in my referer. If I updated my blog regularly, this is the kind of content I’d want to put up on it.
Simon has also recently started beta testing a searchable css-discuss database. This thing is really great. Really, really great. No, make that Insansely Great™. Now I can delete my old css-d messages without feeling like it might come in handy the next day.
Simon also links two other neat blogs: Mike Pletch’s Daily Scribbling, and Column Two.
Mike Pletch talks about an interesting Business Week writeup on Macromedia and its financial woes. While it’s sorta non-sequiter, I have to take that counterpoint and bitch about Flash MX. The reason it’s not going to catch on is because it just doesn’t cut the mustard if you need to do any real programming on it. Simply put, it’s a huge pain in the ass to do anything vaguely useful with it (see previous rant).
Earlier this week, I did some work on the PowerPoint to Flash conversion. I thought that was it, but since the timings were way off and I wasn’t anyone else to do it, I ended up spending the afternoon manually retiming the slide timings. In any case, here’s the result (it’s an exclusive for now boys and girls!):
- Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture [Flash 5+, 8.4MB] – Keynote given at OSCON 2002, slides synced with audio
Oh, do me a favor and don’t submit this to /. — Larry will be doing that w/ his own servers soon enough.