Keith Peters' exciting Brevity project, which aims to bring the simplicity of Processing to Flash, now has a mailing list on OSFlash. In his blog post today, Keith mentions that there should be an initial release on the Brevity SVN repository later this week.

I'm going to be giving a talk titled Flash Platform: The Next Generation at the next FlashCodersBrighton meeting this Tuesday. I'll be giving an overview of ActionScript 3, the Flex 2 SDK and Flex Builder 2.

I just installed Parallels on my Windows box and I'm now kicking myself that I didn't do it sooner. This thing rocks. I'm installing Suse 10.1 at the moment into a virtual machine and it's whizzing by. The mouse and keyboard were completely responsive and it appears to be running at near-native speed.

Why, oh why, does the latest ultraportable notebook from Sony, the Vaio TX3, have a TV tuner and a DVD drive?

I wish Sony would make an ultraportable without a DVD drive (I don't know about other people but I rarely use a DVD drive on the road). While they're at it, they can remove that TV tuner too.

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I hear it's big in China where Apple is reportedly manufacturing all sorts of lovely toys for us, using "200,000 workers, who work 15-hour days but are paid just $50 a month -- miserable even by China's standards." Sweat shops? Apple? Think different, dudes!