Would you rent an R rated movie for your child? What about a movie rated NC-17? And if you did ignore the MPA rating , and your child ended up viewing highly inappropriate content, whose fault would that be? In case you are the only human who has yet to hear this vital news, Grand Theft Auto San...
Macromedia gives employees a six week sabbatical every four years, time to switch off, unwind, reset, and refresh. I've been eligible for my sabbatical for almost two years, but with product launches and being on the road, I have never been able to block out six consecutive weeks. Until now. I'll...
When folks ask me where I work, and hear the response "Macromedia", there are usually one of two responses. More technical folks respond with "oh, Flash". And less technical folks tell me they have never heard of the company, until I mention Flash, and then they respond "oh yeah". Earlier this...
Apparently, a letter written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , before he was elected Pope Benedict XVI in April, condemns Harry Potter as a potentially corrupting influence on children. Accusing the stories of "subtle seduction", the then Cardinal felt that the series corrupts the young, distorting...
With the release of the long awaited Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince this Saturday, students at The Holt Primary School in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire (in England) were planning to come to school on Friday dressed up as witches and wizards. But the BBC is reporting that head-teacher Paul...
The Innovative House (IHOUSE) has a mission of: to offer the last word in high-tech solutions for homes, apartments and hotels. Be it the Smart Shower (a "hot and cold water mixer with digital computerized controls that allow precise regulation of both water temperature and pressure" where a "voice...
I've posted a few CFUNITED pics online. Enjoy. Oh, and if you have any other pics to share, send them my way. Thanks!
CFUNITED started today here in Bethesda, MD. Tim Buntel and I presented the opening keynote (which has been blogged repeatedly in the past few hours). Key points were: ColdFusion MX 7 is doing incredibly well (in fact, over 50% of the attendees are already using version 7, that's phenomenal)....
I spoke to the UKCFUG in London this evening. Al Manning was up first, he discussed a ColdFusion/Flex application, and using ColdFusion as a Flex backend. And then I introduced ColdFusion MX 7 event gateways; what they are, why they are needed, their architecture and internals, gateway classes and...
I have a Dell PowerVault 705n at home, I use it as a network storage device and as a backup device. But recently I upgraded my primary server to Windows 2003, only to discover that while it could see the NAS it could not reliably read or write files, and the NAS could not authenticate against the...