I came to the realisation yesterday when I posted about Apollo that the spam protection I was using was actually stopping all visitors from leaving comments on my blog. I disabled it for about 12 hours and in that time watched the spam flow in. The solution: Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin
Hopefully everyone’s elementary math is up to scratch. Good thing I didn’t install the “Fourier Transform Comment Spam Protection Plugin” instead ;-)
Could the newly announced iPhone be the solution to a world gripped by terror?
John Mayer closed the recent Macworld expo with the following comments:
“Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. just make life more fun - it’s the exact opposite of terrorism.”
(And yes I’m drawing a very long Apple iBow here ;-) Perhaps if the iPhone made its way into the lives of those inflicting the terror, the fun they’re having with their shiny new Apple product may just make them forget their devious schemes…. failing that, there’s only 5 hours of battery life to watch re-runs of Al Jazeera - which should delay them for a while I guess. And if that’s not a case for the advancement of fuel cell technology, then I don’t know what is!
And it’s worth noting that the Keynote address on the iPhones site is currently unaccessible due to high demand. I’d be guessing here, but Apple’s streaming server setup would be pretty impressive, so the number of users clamoring all over this story must be equally as impressive.
I'm not sure why this didn't make a bigger splash in the blogosphere, but I've just had a client of mine show me one of their designs in a pdf as a 3D model! You can rotate, pan, zoom and even change the lighting on the subject matter. Very cool stuff - and as far as I can tell you only need Acrobat 7 to view it.
Check out this pdf example from the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/3d_pdf_demo.pdf (be sure to click the buttons at the top to see the animations)
Can't to see what implications this could have with the forthcoming Apollo framework and the convergence of Flash and Acrobat.
Wow, so this blogging stuff’s pretty powerful… and a little scary. It seems the aggregator I’ve been visiting for the last couple of years has decided to add me - and I didn’t even need to ask! As I don’t quite have a handle on how this actually happened, it seems a bit mysterious to me at the moment. Am assuming it’s got something to do with RSS? I was contemplating sending an email to Geoff Bowers, the master of fullasagoog.com, but as I haven’t yet, I’m wondering how in hades my blog and the posts I’ve made so far have magically appeared on fullasagoog this morning.
Was kinda biding my time so I could get a proper about page up, and make some visual changes to the site. The site kinda feels a bit nude to me at the moment, ahem, so you’ll have to excuse me while I continue to dress it up.
I’m ecstatic that I’m on the site (kinda a weird feeling going there first thing in the morning and seeing your name up in lights… cue dreamy music and dellusions of grandeur), I’m just hoping someone a bit more learned in the ways of the blog can shed some light on the mechanics of how it happened.
This is my first tentative step into the blogosphere… testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Hopefully I’m coming through loud and clear.
Ahem, firstly a bit about me. Names Jason Langdon, I’m a freelance web designer residing in Adelaide, South Australia. Been at it for almost 6 years now, so I’m probably well due to do the blog thang. Hopefully my voice will help aid the cause of designing web/standards/UI design and more generally, be a voice of reason. I’ll mainly be serving up Flash related entries, with a side order of all things Adobe/Macromedia (old habits die hard ;-) and other tech related tidbits.
Hope you enjoy over the coming months.
Jason
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