Here are some wise words of advice: If you are going to sit for an interview that might be broadcast around the world and quite possibly go into print as well (a) make sure you are not suffering from sun exposure and sporting a red, sun-burned honker from the day before and, (b) if you are, that you absolutely *insist* that the video crew use makeup on you even if they tell you that they'll "fix it in post". The interview I'm referring to is the one of yours truly talking about (the then-unreleased) Flash 8. It was shot towards the end of the beta days and has apparently been touring the world as part of Macromedia's launch roadshow for Studio 8.

Just recently I saw that they also quoted me on the cover of .Net magazine ("This will change the aesthetics of the web") and, lo and behold, a freeze-frame of the video, Rudolph-nose and all, adorns the article inside.

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What do Flash Guru Guy Watson, FlashForward winner (Application: UK General Elections) and Flash Product Manager at BBC News Rob Bateman, FlashLite master Richard Leggett and myself have in common? (No it's not dashing looks, although I have heard girls giggling around Richard...)

We're all going to be taking part in the Flash 8 Professional: Seminar by the Sea event being organized by Ariaware on 24 October, 2005.

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I am very upset with Kevin Langdon.

Kevin, how could you write one of the most useful tools in a Flash/Flex developer's toolset but forget to tell anyone about it? It was by pure chance that I stumbled upon your excellent ServiceCapture tool in Josh Dura's blog post, even though I had been searching for an HTTP monitor/bandwidth throttler/AMF debugger on Google for ages.

It bears repeating: ServiceCapture is a lightweight, usable HTTP Proxy, HTTP Monitor, Web Debugging Tool and, most importantly, Bandwidth Throttle and AMF Debugger. (Google, are you listening?) :)

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