Argh! I pop the CD in, boot from it and get the Ubuntu start screen. I press Enter for the default install. Some lines breeze by, lots of dots and then the screen clears and I'm left with: "Uncompressing Linux Ok, booting the Kernel" That's where it gets stuck. Hmm, I wonder if there's something [...]

Time to put my laptop where my mouth is and start using an Open Source operating system to run my open source tools. Thus begins my (belated) journey into Linux. My companion for the ride will be Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (Breezy Badger). Nat is terribly passionate about Ubuntu and sold me on it after last [...]

I'd been meaning to lighten up the wonderful OSFlash web site design donated to us by Niko for some time now to improve readability, etc. and finally got some time today to do so. Take a look! I have to say that I was more than a little inspired by the clean layouts of my [...]

We finally have a Flash conference of our own in Europe. Spark Europe was a blur of old friends and new, passionate presentations and community, community, community; Open Source Flash, Open Source Flash, Open Source Flash! I'm on the train to the airport from the wonderful playground that the speakers were staying at; the hugely [...]

Oooh, bad one, I know... Hey, how about this: I thought I was going on vacation until I had a look through Richard Legget's very cool Flashlite Spark app today (soon to be released to the hungry masses from what I hear) and realized that I'm MCing the Open Source Flash workshow, giving two talks [...]