03.06.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-03-06

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • Happiness is a baby with clear lungs! Flu (RSV) be gone! Woo- to the -oot! #

02.28.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-28

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • For the love of Webster, will you people please learn the differenece between 'yay', 'yeah', and 'yea'? Take the time and think it thru. #

02.27.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-27

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • Hooray: OHSU IT dept had a power supply for my laptop. Groan: Need it for days to come. Hang in there James. #

02.22.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-22

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • Holy crap! My taxes are done. I guess it is just a matter of time before the spare bedroom cleans itself out. #

02.17.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-17

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

02.16.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-16

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • RT @stevenf: Day 19. Spirit weak. Losing hope. Just need a sign. An order form I can fill out… So cold. <== hold on! iPad will come soon. #

02.10.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-10

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • HE ROLLED OVER! I swear he just rolled over off his tummy by himself! GOOD JOB JAMES! Tomorrow: Write a new MENSA entrance exam. #
  • @turoczy google should buy PGE's unused fiber ring and start with that. Remember PGE's broadband play in late 90's? in reply to turoczy #
  • @turoczy …and then partner with Portland Personal Telco for add'l connectivity. in reply to turoczy #

02.06.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-06

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • Playing chess in Playstation Home upstairs in the Mall. Would you like to join? #

02.01.10

Twitter Updates for 2010-02-01

Posted in Twitter at 8 pm

  • Hmm. I don't remember water dripping from that curtain rod before we left for dinner… #
  • Ah yes, that *is* what a solid hour of crying would sound like. Very impressive James. #

01.30.10

Who can save Flash? Adobe of course

Posted in Design, Tech, Web at 11 pm

This whole tempest-in-a-teapot over Flash on the iPad/iPhone platform is silly.

1) Any site that shows a ‘missing plug-in’ error is seriously behind the times. Planar.com’s Flash banner drops back to a JPEG with a clickable image map. Anything else would be criminal. (But, don’t look at our Control Room site just now…) The same fallback plan should be made for ANY plug-in: SilverLight, QuickTime, Java.

Mantra #7: If it’s not HTML + IMG, then it should have some back-up in case the content isn’t available.

2) Adobe makes money on authoring tools, tools of creation. When Robert Scoble asks Can Flash Be Saved he left out a crucial distinction: Flash the Authoring tool (and Flex, I suppose) vs. Flash Player the plug-in software for a multitude of platforms. All Adobe needs to do is re-target the Authoring tool to put out Canvas-based HTML 5/SVG/SMIL/JavaScript.

Suddenly they are free from having to support the development of the Player. Maybe they can even volunteer to A) Contribute to the open-source toolkits that would improve the H5/S/S/JS stack to the point where it reaches parity with Flash’s current features, B) add that support directly into the Flash Plugin for IE8, thereby removing one hurdle to getting that stack adopted universally.

Adobe can save Flash, that’s who.