One good thing about being a monopoly like Google is that you can choose to play God whenever you like and no one can do anything about it.

In a good example of how Google has gotten too powerful to be trusted, it chose this week to play dice with the livelihoods of countless people by penalizing many major blog sites and networks by slashing the page rank.

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I announced at my talk yesterday at FITC that I've extended the deadline for the SWX contest to give FITC and next month's Flash on the Beach attendees enough time to take part in it.

The new deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT) on December 2nd, 2007.

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I have a guilty confession to make: I have a band! And it's full of Flash geeks.

The band's called Phlash5 and we're performing tonight at the BB King Bar at Universal City, Hollywood as part of FITC Hollywood.

We're so lucky to have some well-known Flashers in the band (oh, it never gets old) who somehow (luckily for me) also happen to be great musicians. The line up comprises Seb Lee-Delisle on bass, John Grden on drums, Sam Agesilas on guitar, Chris Allen on trombone, Jared Simms (the only non-Flasher in the band) on saxophone, Chris Mills on percussion, Craig Swann on Visual Guitar, and I'm lead vocals!

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John just wrapped up his Papervision3D workshop at FITC Hollywood and it was great! I learned heaps.

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Deadline for entries for the SWX Contest with its amazing prizes is October 28th -- that's only ten days away. If you haven't started on your entry yet, what are you waiting for? :)

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