Just watched Taken and it was a well done film. It had a pace more akin to the Bourne movies with a better actor at the helm. I don’t know why it didn’t do so well at the box office, I thought that it had more emotional impact then any recent spy type movies I’ve seen. The action sequences were more of a desperate warrior then a calm martial artist and every scene imparted tension. ...
We went to Table 31 at the base of the Comcast center for dinner tonight. It was an excellent restaurant week menu. Most of the places doing restaurant week push the up-sell pretty hard but this was an exception. They had the all inclusive $35 menu on the table. Even better they had a selection of wines under $50 that they recommended and our was very nice. The waiter was very nice and handled my ‘special needs’ diet. Well at least I think that he did, but I’ll know for sure tomorrow if I accidentally ingested some wheat. ...
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My girlfriend’s mom bought her one of those inexpensive ‘wireless’ notebook mouses. It is not even bluetooth enabled, it requires a USB adapter. I used it over the weekend and found it much better then my hip Apple mouse. Although I can’t squeeze it ( www.apple.com/mightymouse/ ) it is much easier to use. The tilt wheel concept is more precise then the little ball on the apple and the optical sensor works across any surface. This mouse works on my office desk where the apple mouse fails (and a dog did eat my mousepad) ...
Arpit led another session about how and when to use Flash in an Ajax world. One of the attendees was a Microsoft Silverlight manager and was a solid hour of dispelling myths about RIA in general. There is still a large population that thinks Flash/Silverlight are bad for SEO and not enough people know of Adobe’s recent collaborations with Google and Microsoft, including project Ichabod that makes Flash more indexable than Ajax (some details here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_ichabod_flash_ajax.php). We also talked about how the RIA vs traditional html choice is often made unconsciously before the IA/Design phase and what we need to do in order to help inform that choice. Arpit is going to have a conversation later with a manager from Microsoft concerning Rich Internet Application development in Philadelphia. ...