I saw that senocular.com was asking What will happen to MMUGs now? Will they become Adobe User Groups (AUGs?) I can't speak for other MMUGs but I can announce what we're going to be doing in 2006 with the London Macromedia User Group: We're going to be renaming it to the London MultiMedia User Group. Being lazy at heart and not wanting to give up too many XBox cycles on rebranding, we thought this would be the easiest route :) Also, it fits perfectly with our wanting to embrace a wider range of topics.

Darn, 15 minutes to get to my gate... I better post this and get going lest I miss my flight to Cyprus. Going to be spending New Year's with my family in the North.

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I've been invited to present on the Open Source Flash Revolution at Flash in the Can. The conference will be taking place between April 21st - 23rd in Toronto, Canada.

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I'm going to be holding a workshop on Object-Oriented ActionScript 2 and a seminar on the Open Source Flash Revolution at FlashForward 2006 in Seattle. The dates for the conference are February 27th (Workshop day) - March 2nd. I'll be in Seattle from the 25th so if anyone wants to meet up, buzz me and we'll see if we can arrange something! :)

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How's this for close? A to-the-millisecond tie in Super Monkey Ball between yours truly and my good friend, Paul Booth. Been wanting to post this pic for a while :)

I wanted to really try out MadCap Software's upcoming RoboHelp replacement called Flare but, unfortunately, their Beta is apparently full. I actually called up their San Fran offices but, although sympathetic, their representative informed me that I had a rat's chance in hell of getting in on the beta. Darn, I really wanted to use it for my upcoming courses. Oh well... I guess it's pure XML for me. They're apparently going to be releasing a sneak-peek in January. Alas, I plan to have a lot of content created before then.

Does anyone know of any other single-source publishing tools?