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My favorite Tweet of the day was by Jesse Freeman AKA @TheFlashBum. His tweet.

“Just asked mrs bum for her predictions on Apple’s tablet; she said “I don’t give a fuck and you better not bring one home” – she’s excited!”

He had a couple other good ones, but that one cracked me up the most.

My take on the iPad? Call me jaded but “Meh”. Not blown away. Flash 10.1 did a lot more for me that a $500 over-sized iPhone. Just my two cents.

A good read and worth the time and effort to implement.

The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs.

After watching the initial four episode run to open the series I’m torn if this will be a long term reboot series or not. The production is slick enough, the acting is good and the visitors arrival (as much of a rip-off of independence day as it was) did make for a dramatic open to the show. Unlike how I felt after watching the pilot for Lost and the mini-series introduction of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, though, V left me….well unimpressed.

I’ve read a lot about how many critics and blogger’s have been deconstructing V as nothing more than a thinly veiled criticism of the Obama Presidency. Many have gone as far as to say that the show’s debut, exactly one year to the day after he was elected President, show’s it’s blatant connection. Although I can’t deny that the visitor’s (annoyingly referred to as “V’s” in the show) storyline features a number of elements that reflect the current state of the world and the major issues Obama and his administration are facing (Health Care being the biggest), I’m still not sold on that there’s any intent by the creator’s to directly lob criticism at the White House. With a town like Hollywood, though, you never really know.

Character and cast wise, I think V has done a better job than some recent reboot efforts of not filling the show with pretty looking yet empty characters. The 2008 NBC reboot Knight Rider is to me a great example of putting completely “pretty” albeit useless characters into a show simply to fill space around the true star, the car Kitt. I also The forthcoming public 3.0 launch of Aeolian Digital.com marks not only the third version of this Web site, but the twelfth overall time I’ve redesigned and relaunched my Web site. From way back in 1997 when I launched my first Web page on AOL.com to today, it’s been quite a long journey.

So for all the other Web pros and those curious about this journey, I plan to go way back to that first ever page in 1997 and work back to the present day, detailing the steps involved, what I learned along the way and what was happening in the technology world at that time. I won;t cover all twelve steps, but hit on the major milestones that occurred.

I feel that this journey is a good one to document because as much as my professional and consulting career have helped to shape who I am as a technology professional today, my personal site has been the watershed site for personal exploration, trial and error and pushing the boundaries of my imagination and development skills.

While the new Aeolian Digital revamp soft launched at the beginning of October, a formal announcement will be made via social network channels including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more on November 15 to announce the revised site which moved to the Wordpress platform for 2009 and beyond.

In December comes the official announcement of a new version of a comics web site project that is now 1 1/2 years in development. I’m very proud of where things have come thus far and I’m excited about releasing it publicly.

In January comes the official beta release of an open source ActionScript framework almost three years in the making. This is my big one and I plan to have had a full six months of alpha testing before this release.

It’s a huge amount of work about to culminate in three months of big news. Stay Tuned!

It brought back fond memories of running around as a kid all hyped up on Jolt Cola, which was eventually pulled because it was pretty much like pure sugar and caffeine. It probably did irrevocable damage to our pancreas, kidneys, brain and soft tissues, but what did we know, We were ten.

Funny episode. Looking forward to more.

I only watched the Adobe MAX keynote web-cast sporadically today but I caught some important topics and very cool notes:

• Flash 10.1 – Adobe announced the new Flash 10.1 platform for mobile applications. It is supposed to be taking all of what had made the iPhone OS so great (like positioning, memory management and power usage monitoring) and apply it to Flash apps. Saw some neat demos on a couple different Android and Windows Mobile devices (one of which was too secret to reveal in the keynote even!)
• Flash on the iPhone – The lead in was a pretty cool spoof of the Myth busters TV show called “Hacked” in which the guys tried numerous ways to get Flash onto an iPhone (like dumping an iPhone and Flash Player CD into a blender and hooking an iPhone 3GS to a car battery – tell me no one has wanted to do that period). The result in the keynote was a demonstration of how Flash can be complied to run natively on the iPhone. I think of everything I saw, that is the big one for me and it’s no doubt why it was the last topic of the day.
• Flash Platform Products – Adobe announced that second betas of Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder and that Flash CS5 Pro would have better integration with Flash Builder (something I heard already). This is cool though I really don’t use Flash Pro much these days anyway. They also announced Cold Fusion 9 but that’s more for people that use that of which I am not one.
• Additional Cool Stuff – The day seemed to be dominated by Flash but they had a cool demo of some new Photoshop features like a pixel blending and 3D brush tool that worked pretty neat. I didn’t happen to see anything on an other apps but Serge Jespers tweeted about some Acrobat stuff as well.

All in all, I’m very encouraged about the announcements and the fact that Adobe is really pouring a lot into the Flash Platform meaning that all of us Flash folks are going to have a lot of work on our hands now and down the road. It also means that Adobe is not backing down on their Web darling in the face of competition from Microsoft and the looming threat of the HTML 5 canvas tag. Good show for Day 1 Adobe. Looking forward to tomorrows keynotes.