What's this? It's a QR Code that contains all the ActionScript you need to get the most recent 100 photos from Flickr into Flash using SWX RPC.

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There have always been myths and misinformation about Flash. Five years ago, when we were at the height of the age of the Skip Intro, this was perhaps understandable. But it is discouraging to hear the same misinformation being regurgitated over and over even today and it's difficult to find the time to keep writing the same responses to the same tired myths. (For an example, see this uninformed comment on a recent post at WASP, and read my response to it.)

So let's do something about it, shall we?

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Someone called Mike attempts his five seconds of Internet fame by claiming that Flash Sucks and Web Standards and accessibility guru Mike Davies counters with a post titled Growing momentum behind accessible Flash.

This follows Drew McLellan's post on the WASP blog on Obstacles to Accessible Flash which highlights current accessibility issues that Flash is affected by due to browser limitations and other reasons, both Adobe-related and non-Adobe-related.

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On the off chance that you're writing an Internet Draft (I-D), the precursor to an RFC, here are two invaluable links to get you started:

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Wow! My last post was the 1,000th on aralbalkan.com. I was thinking of writing something special for the 1,000th post but, in true blog style, it just happened to be on whatever was on my mind at the time (my new N800!)

When I was young, I remember pledging that one day I would write a computer program that had more than 1,000 lines of code in it (it seemed like such a huge number back then). Since then, I've probably written closer to 100,000 lines (and realized that less is more) but a thousand blog posts is still a cool milestone. I wonder how many posts I've written in total when you add up the ones on my previous blogs.

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