Dreams of Spain and photo shoots
I'm honored to be part of the line-up at the upcoming serestandar.es conference in Sevilla, Spain from the 27th to the 29th of June, 2007.
The coolest thing? I get to see my bio in Spanish:
Aral y Flash, en un arbol, B-E-S-A-N-D-O. Un bloger desde hace cinco años y un desarrollador de Flash desde hace siete. Aral esta orgulloso de sus amorÃos con la gente maravillosa de la comunidad Flash.
Es fundador de OSFlash.org y creador de Arp, the open source, pattern-based RIA framework para la Plataforma Flash. Aral es autor de los tutorÃas de Adobe Flex QuickStart y de las series Hot Shots, seis originales cursos de un dÃa sobre Flash y Flex. También ha contribuido a varios libros sobre la plataforma Flash.
Un ponente profesional y aclamado asà como profesor, Aral habla regularmente en conferencias internacionales sobre la Web, Open Sourse y Flash.
Aral vive en Brighton donde da servicios de consultorÃa y formación a través de su empresa, Ariaware.
OK, OK, so it's also very cool that I'm going to go back to my beloved Spain! 
I've been missing it terribly since my trip to Barcelona last year.
Ah, and I also had some photos taken at Studio 27 today so I don't have to scramble to search Flickr whenever someone asks for one. I think they came out really well! Many thanks to my photographer, Susie, and to James who runs the place. The one in this post is just one of the 160 or so I ended up getting!
OK, now I'm going back to working on SWX and preparing for FITC this weekend. I even managed to get a Datum t-shirt printed in record time thanks to Jake's amazing help at Jump the Gun and new cards printed with Datum on them. Really happy how those came out too! Can't wait... Canada, here I come!
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aSH
You must eat Paella and dance Flamenco! olé!
April 17th, 2007 at 6:38 pmaSH
btw, great picture… you are a model man! :p
April 17th, 2007 at 6:45 pmaral
Hey aSH, I’m more a fideuá fan, myself! And thanks — it’s not even photoshopped (yet, lol!)
April 17th, 2007 at 7:08 pmTom
Love the photo!
I didn’t know you were that cool
April 18th, 2007 at 12:11 amTom
Enrique
La verdad es que en inglés debe sonar muchÃsimo mejor, pero hemos intentado que sea lo más fiel posible.
Gracias Aral
April 18th, 2007 at 8:01 amRichard Leggett
Yeah that’s all good Aral, but if you are gonna post a picture of yourself up, you’re immediately up against Sean
http://www.seanmcsharry.com/
btw fideuá is good!
April 18th, 2007 at 10:51 ameokyere
nice!
April 18th, 2007 at 10:55 amSean McSharry
bring it on Aral
April 18th, 2007 at 11:04 amrob
remember… glasses are not a chew-toy!
April 18th, 2007 at 11:17 amaral
LOL! Not sure it’s even worth competing really, looks like Sean’s got the nude geek market cornered
April 18th, 2007 at 1:17 pmaral
@Rob: K, got it… glasses are a chew toy… very cool!
April 18th, 2007 at 1:18 pmdavid
hi Aral!
Enjoy Sevilla, it’s a great city (I worked there for almost 3 years). Do not forget to bring sun protection with you!
See you
April 19th, 2007 at 6:46 pm