San Diego- May 30, 2008 I went down to San Diego, my old stomping ground, for Memorial Day this past weekend and again today for work. I miss the laid back style down there. Over the weekend, people were so laid back, to the point it started to get my frustrated. Standing in line to order coffee was a three or four minute ordeal! Imagine my frustration. A lot has changed down here since I used to live here. Downtown has Petco Park, a ton of high end condos, Gaslamp looks totally invigorated with swanky restaurants...http://www.redyawning.com/users/hyperionab/San+Diego/blog.aspx?userid=1&blogid=20131 Apple's AirTunes- May 11, 2008 I bought a used AirPort Express today and I can't believe it took me this long to figure this out. AirTunes is a pretty phenomenal concept, but getting the whole set up to run with my WRT54G was painful. It was unable to run in client mode. I tried a couple of times to get it going through the automatic setup to have it only do AirTunes, but the yellow light kept blinking. In the end, I set up with in WDS mode, which also turned out to be difficult to use. The trick was making sure both the...http://www.redyawning.com/users/hyperionab/Apple's+AirTunes/blog.aspx?userid=1&blogid=... Adobe's Open Screen Project- May 1, 2008 I don't write a lot about what I'm doing at Adobe and it's mostly since I'm working on projects that are not released yet and are still under development. However, today we announced the Open Screen Project, a cross industry effort to bring Flash and Flash technologies to more screens. A the basic level, the next release of our Flash player runtime for devices (e.g. mobile phones, mobile internet devices, televisions, etc, etc) will be free. On top of that, we're dropping license restrictions...http://www.redyawning.com/users/hyperionab/Adobe's+Open+Screen+Project/blog.aspx?userid=1&... |