I'm working in Dreamweaver quite a bit these days as I write the Quick Start tutorials for Flex 2 and there's one feature in particular that I keep wishing worked differently: the Quick Tag Editor.

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I was trying to play a YouTube video on a Mac and wasn't getting any sound. After Googling around, I found that I wasn't the only one running into this problem and that the solution is to trash your Flash Player preferences under the ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia folder.

[Update] After trashing preferences, the video was still stuttering. Apparently the problem was with the Flip4Mac WMV Internet plug-in. The solution was to disable it from System Preferences.

I love Brighton. No, it's not because two very hot chicks just walked in front of my house, hand-in-hand. (OK, so I'm not compaining) I just love the vibe of this town; the people.

Case in point: I went down to the coffee shop at Borders to do a little work and ended up talking to B. (Finally, someone else who wants a pair of Heelys!) Of course, B.'s not her real name but I couldn't see her name on her band's MySpace page so I'm thinking maybe it's a mystery thing and I shouldn't ruin it. Anyway, so B. has a band and they do electric hip-hop (or "electric-ironica", according to their band's website.)

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In response to last week's MySpace hack, which used a redirect from Flash to hijack people's pages, MySpace recently announced that they will be upgrading all Flash widgets to Flash Player 9. The security updates in Flash Player 9 apparently prevent this sort of attack.

A message regarding the upgrade was sent from Tom to all MySpace accounts and reads as follows:

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The MPAA and their friends have reportedly trained dogs to sniff out bags or packages that contain CDs or DVDs. Apparently, these dogs are being used as we speak at Standsted airport, in the UK, to sniff packages being sent by FedEx.

For the time being, Lucky and Flo are working at a FedEx shipping center at Stansted Airport where they are sniffing packages that are shipped around the world. Trainers say the dogs have been notifying customs agents of packages with discs in them. The packages have been opened but so far no pirated movies have been found.

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