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Haha! Doing something cross platform is hard. So when Apple said they were going to be bringing Safari to Windows I think people were curious as to how it would turn out. By most accounts, 3.1 is pretty sweet even though there were some rumblings about how they rolled the new version out. But even […]

There’s a great post by Ed Burnette over on ZDNet about how the desktop is dead. And he makes a compelling point:

Installing and uninstalling and maintaining anything on the desktop (be it Windows or Mac or Linux) is hard, and more and more people won’t bother. Why? Because there’s a better alternative. Another way of […]

Coming home from the gym tonight, I read an email on my cell phone announcing that my petition for Hiromi to come to the U.S. has finally been approved.

It’s a relief. It really only means that we’ve started round three of the waiting game, as the next layer of bureaucracy enters the picture. But the most grueling, time consuming part of this process is now over.

It’s been 208 days since I filed the petition. We spent about 3 weeks after our minimalist wedding gathering documents, filling out forms, correcting forms, mailing them back and forth, reviewing them with my attorney and an immigration paralegal, and accumulating a small fortune in legal bills and government fees.

The approval means that we now wait again… in about a week, we should be assigned a visa number after the National Visa Center receives the petition, which will be forwarded to the consular service at Tokyo embassy. Sometime after that, Hiromi will receive a new stack of paperwork to fill out, and I expect I’ll have to assemble a bunch of financial documents as well.

If we’re lucky, within a month after the documents are sent off, Hiromi will get an appointment for a medical exam and an interview.

I’m not sure yet, but there’s a reasonable chance Hiromi will be able to come to Seattle by late May.

Maybe I’ll finally be able to concentrate during the daytime again…

FriendFeed, an interesting new service that aggregates all of your social media friend’s content into one place has just released a set of APIs and the tech world is pretty excited. Unfortunately, as with a lot of newly-minted APIs, they leave the Flash (and now Silverlight) world out in the cold by not including a […]

We’re going to be pushing out a security update to the Flash player next month that will probably impact a lot of you so we’re trying to make sure you have as much information as possible so that you don’t get a lot of users asking you why your applications no longer work. Emmy and […]

It has been a good couple of weeks for companies using Flex/Flash/AIR and a lot of these companies are starting to get some mainstream press which is great for Adobe and great to see them get recognized for all of the work they’ve put into these things.
The first congrats goes out to SlideRocket (I have […]

How about something writing about something that wasn’t disappointing?
Bodegas Tomas Cusine El Vilosell
If you see this on a menu, order it. If you see it at a local wine shop, buy a couple bottles.   This is a tasty blend of 50% Tempranillo, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Garnacha, and 8% Merlot that is right at […]

We’re getting ready to leave for the on AIR Europe tour this week and then Europe will be the place to be! The 7th - 9th of April is going to be 360|Flex in Milan and it looks like it’s going to be a great show. Unfortunately it conflicts with a few of the dates […]

Yes!! NewTeeVee just posted that the South Park guys are making every single South Park episode available online for free. And it’s all in Flash.
The world of Flash just got a whole lot funnier.
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