I was not going to post anything further about Flash Europe because I pulled out of speaking following a total lack of communication with the organizational committee (and a not-too-pleasant phone call I received following my last blog post on the subject) but I received an email from the venue today that I believe will be of interest to the community. I present it here without comment. You can make your own decisions.

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As you might remember, I had pledged 10% of the profit from our two Hands On courses in January to Oxfam for the Tsunami Relief effort. Well, I'm happy to report that today, Emilie and I presented our local Oxfam shop with a cheque for £350. Along with our personal donations at the start of January we hope that this will be a small but helpful drop in the bucket for Oxfam, who are not only helping with the current Asian crisis but with other, less-heard-of and sometimes less-spoken-of disasters around the world as well as longer-term programs like their current Make Poverty History campaign.

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And her's the proof, Emilie hard at work on the blog! Oh, i's so hard not to abuse this new moblog feature :)

... Emilie's got a blog!

Emilie, my partner in all things and the dynamo that really keeps Ariaware (and not to mention the London MMUG) going, can now be found posting her photographs of our lovely city (Brighton) on EmilieWood.com.

Right now it's a plain old WordPress installation but something tells me it's going to be her unique little corner of cyberspace in no time. Already we've implemented two hacks: One to allow comments only for registered users (similar to the system we have here on FlashAnt) and another small one I added to that hack so that the user's username will show up by default in the comment form's Name field. (Just replace <?php echo $comment_author; ?> with <?php echo $user_nickname ?> in the author text field of the comment form.)

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