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Beet.TV has an interview up with Deeje Cooley, an Internet TV Evangelist here at Adobe, on some of the advertising models inside of Adobe Media Player. AMP is one of the more interesting products that Adobe is working on I think. We’ve got some really great analytical tools in the background and it sounds like […]

I wanted to give Flash developers a quick heads up because when Firefox 3 gets rolled out you may be getting emails from your users about existing Flash content not working. The problem is a bug in the recent builds of Firefox 3 which doesn’t handle some of the keyboards events correctly.
Unfortunately it doesn’t sound […]

There was some big news about a flaw in Flash Player 9 that was supposedly a zero-day exploit which affected all versions of Flash Player 9. That is not the case. Flash Player 9.0.124.0, which is the most recent version, is not affected and this was handled in a

Mozilla is doing trying to break the record for software downloads in 24 hours with Firefox 3. Having used Firefox 3 I’m pretty impressed, I like it, and the downloads thing is good marketing. But it’s nowhere close to Flash. Here’s the quote from their FAQ courtesy of Larry Dignan:
This is the first record attempt […]

No, Hiromi hasn’t given birth (and, by the way, neither have I). But we’re now on the cusp of 9 months since Hiromi and I had our minimalist courtroom wedding ceremony.

As of last night, Hiromi tells me she got her passport back from the embassy with her K-3 visa, which allows her to enter the US painlessly.

Of course, as usual, there are some complications. Hiromi’s work obligations, a friend’s wedding, and incredibly high airfare mean that she’ll not actually depart for Seattle until sometime in July… While her visa allows her to go back and forth, coming in June, then making a special trip back to Japan in early July seemed financially not so prudent. Right now, all the "cheap" tickets cost around $1200.

I miss being able to find $515 round trip tickets, taxes included, from Seattle to Tokyo.

We’ve elected to have the interview for the actual immigrant visa in Tokyo, so, unless the National Visa Center moves at light speed, there’s a good chance she’ll have to make a trip back to Japan sometime after July. The other option would be to do an "adjustment of status" in the US, which is somewhat more expensive and arguably more convenient, but we won’t be able to start that process until she arrives in Seattle. That means it would be at least October before she’d have work permission. It also assumes that US Customs and Immigration Service moves at something approximating reasonable speed.

After almost 5 years together, it’s hard to imagine that we were once just coworkers in different offices, 4800 miles apart, and knew each other mostly from email, bug reports, and one or two lunches during business trips.

In a few months, we’ll be hunting for a new place to live, finally. After 4.5 years in the tiny apartment I choose only because it was "good enough" and cheap enough in anticipation of starting a new business, I’m looking forward to finding a place where we can comfortably entertain dinner guests more often. I thought I’d be in that place for a year or two. So much for temporary.

I’m glad the wait is almost over. Just a few more hurdles…

In this morning’s delivery of spam:

1. Find a girl
2. Invite her to your appartments
3. Use subject product V (or C)
4. Have fun
5. Take her number
6. Profit?

This only leaves me with two questions:

1. To which of my “appartments” should I take her?
2. Why didn’t I think of this plan myself?

Long live spam (because it will whether I want it to or not)!

Heard the squishy sound yesterday morning.

To be honest I was a little lukewarm on FriendFeed. And I still don’t use it much to interact with my readers. I think in a lot of cases it only works if you’re one of the uber-popular like Robert Scoble or Mike Arrington and you have a lot of commenters which generates a lot […]

?Registration for MAX in San Francisco is open as of today. It’s from November 16th - 19th and we’re going to be releasing and showing off a ton of stuff at MAX, so if you’re building RIAs, this is a very important conference to attend.
Hopefully I’ll see you there!

Hilarious (via BuzzFeed)!