Why is the Flash Player Global Settings Manager (GSM I’ll call it) still the same as it’s been a couple of years now? Anyone that creates Flash content that I’ve ever talked to about the GSM says it’s bad. I think even someone from Adobe (Macromedia at the time) agreed, in a diplomatic way of course.
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Star Wars Transformers Deluxe Millennium Falcon

I had to blog this - way too cool. Yes, I am a geek who still loves Transformers - Gen1, seasons 1 and 2. I saw some episodes of season 3 not too long ago and remembered why I stopped watching. After the movie, the series blew chunks.

Going back a bit here, but was anyone else completely shocked and dismayed in the first five minutes of the Transformers movie when they killed off almost all of the characters? “We need to sell more toys so we’ll obliterate all the current characters and replace them with the new ones in one fell swoop” Yeah, that worked well … As corny as the characters were, and as bad as some of the animation was, it was still 5 stars above the crap they came out with after the movie. Not that I’m bitter …

I just got an iPod Nano as a thank you from my work (thanks Tim!) about 5 days ago. On Monday I went cycling with it - yeah I shouldn’t but later in the evening there’s hardly anyone biking on the paths and the earphones you get don’t really block any outside sound. I was amazed at how much I could actually hear, as if the music was more background.

Anyhow, I paused the music while I took a breather. I guess the Nano needed a breather too because it shut off and wouldn’t wake up! I assumed it automatically shut off because it wasn’t in use for a few minutes and maybe the battery died … 14 hours my ass.
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