I really can't wait for this week to be over. I am looking forward to seeing my beloved Brighton again.

I haven't been away from it but rather, it's been taken from me by the Labour party conference. Everywhere you look, you see Labour posters hanging from street lamps, the streets are full of policemen carrying automatic weapons and the air is decidedly un-Brightonesque and so are the goings on.

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Are the goals of the Flash, HTML and web standards communities really all that different? I don't think so and neither does Andy Budd. He has a nice post titled The New Face of Flash.

From his post:

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I can't believe it, I'm in a Macromedia video *without* a red nose! Will wonders never cease.

See if you can spot the Aral in this very cool behind-the-scenes video titled Flash Development Team.

So nice to see so many familiar faces (and relive some great memories.) You did an amazing job guys and gals. Kudos!

Just read this disturbing article from a journalist and computer enthusiast who was arrested on the London Underground as a suspected terrorist for using a laptop and, among other things, *not* looking at the police officers as he entered the station and looking carefully at the steps as he walked down.

All in all, very scary. If you must take the Underground, please remember not to run on to trains to avoid being shot repeatedly in the head and try and fight your urge crack open your notebook computer lest you be arrested as a suspected terrorist.

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If my previous post didn't alert you to the fact, I'm a very big fan of the new video functionality in Flash 8 Professional. The new video importer wizard is an amazing workflow enhancer and the new alpha channel and event/navigation cue points features offer a world of creative possibilities for integrating video into Flash sites and applications.

This past Thursday, we held a Flash 8 Special at the London Macromedia User Group wherein Mike Downey did a presentation and a couple of us -- Guy Watson, Richard Leggett, Stephen Downs (Tink) and myself -- took part in a Flash 8 Jam (short 10 minute sessions demonstrating a single new feature.) My topic was Flash 8 Video and I presented a quick-and-dirty example that took me at most fifteen minutes to create.

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