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Merry Christmas all! Looking forward to starting off the new year right, cant wait for an awesome 2006!

Ok I know I’ve been slacking around here. With my move to my new place, no internet and everything else it hasn’t been the easiest over the past week or so. My Internet should kick in to my new place on tomorrow, hopefully I can resume from there.

In the meantime check out my photo-blog at http://photos.noinput.net, eaqually impressive you can click that link on the top right corner of the page.

IEBlog : I want to try IE7 for XP already

Was diggin’ through the morning news’age feeds here at work and saw this post on IEBlog. Looks like we’ll get a taste coming soon.

We’ll post an updated pre-release build of IE7 for Windows XP publicly – no MSDN membership required – during the first calendar quarter of 2006.

Seeing as the last pre-release seemed to be a disaster to most, hopefully this will redeem the dudes at Microsoft I know must be workigna round the clock, they have a lot of slack to pickup seeing as how Firefox 1.5 is dominating.

Ohh, and on that note, I’m in the process of writing my first foxy extension. Soon as I finish with my move to my new place this week and get settled in with my internet working hopefull I can finish it up. Believe me its nothing crazy but hell, its a start.

Here’s a lil sumthin for my South Asian friends that come around here. Deep, you know who you are

Anyone looking for a stocking stuffer for that geek with a cameraphone? You Found It. Try a telephoto lense for your phone’s camera. Sweet.

Also, there were some new delightful Engrish Sightings here and here

Saw this on FoO’s site and couldn’t resist!

So this is both wierd and scarry. Don’t know what to make of the future of our beloved software. I’m guessing this is how the hardcore Quark heads felt when they realized it was time to move to InDesign.. except no one saw this coming back in the day when we first heard word of it.

I’m just not sure what to think here, I mean, great. Finally flash will have a 1step process for importing from Illustrator and Photoshop, maybe flash will support Layer Masks natively from ps and it maybe we can even apply layer effects like blending options in Flash9. But what I really don’t want to happen is them forget about why Flash is so important to so many developers. The fact that it’s cutting edge and on the pinnacle of creativity. I would sacrifice development time and usability any day for the sole fact I can rely on the new version of flash to “impress” me with it’s abilities. Not for the fact that it can save me 10 minutes to realize I can’t comeup with anything new. Thats all for now.