Macromedia has a bunch of announcements today. Hopefully all the new exciting stuff won't overwhelm people too much.
The press releases (for those of you that are inclined to read those):
Macromedia Unveils New Integrated Product Family
Macromedia Studio MX Delivers Rich Internet Applications
Macromedia - Flash MX : Macromedia Flash Remoting
Macromedia Introduces Dreamweaver MX
Macromedia Introduces Fireworks MX
Macromedia Introduces ColdFusion MX
Macromedia and IBM Bring ColdFusion to WebSphere
Macromedia and Sun Bring ColdFusion to Sun ONE
The gist of the message is: Macromedia is releasing their MX products. For me some of the more exciting news are better glue for all their web products, to do things like connecting to and making available web services, using Flash to connect to web services etc.
For ColdFusion developers, the news of ColdFusion MX being able to run on any major Java Application platform is great news.
ColdFusion has been expanded with the capability of making web services / server services with:
- ColdFusion
- ColdFusion Components
- Server Side ActionScript (!) (Which is, more or less JavaScript).
- Java
The connections between ColdFusion MX and Flash MX or a .NET server, j2ee servers, actually - unless I have missed something here - you can use any web service strapped server to be the gateway for Flash and web services. Mike Chambers provided the following links to the Flashcoders list just some hours ago:
Macromedia Flash Remoting
Getting Started with ColdFusion MX and Flash Remoting
Connecting ColdFusion MX and Macromedia MX
This is plenty neat. Just discovered that there are a number of Macromedia employees with weblogs. The ones I have found so far are:
John Dowdell (support / community guy)
Mike Chambers (Flash/ColdFusion/community/etc)
Vernon Viehe (ColdFusion)
Matt Brown (Dreamweaver/MX)
Bob Tartar (Director)
If you want to get plugged-in to what is going on in Macromedia, keeping an eye on these fellows is probably a good idea..
In addition to Radio that I purchased for its outliner, but that also includes all the workings of a weblog publishing system, and news aggregator, I have found a new piece of software that makes my days keeping updated on what is new on the weblogs I visit a whole lot easier.
The programs name is AmphetaDesk, and to quote the makers of AmphetaDesk:
AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator - it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable!) webpage. With thousands of channels for selection
Its developed with Perl and XML, with the GUI functions done in Perl using libraries for the specific OS. (Available for Windows, Mac and as source code - which should make it fairly easy to get up and running on a Linux system).
It comes with a huge selection of XML feeds in its channel overview, but its really easy to add any XML feed you want - like mine for example :-)
A List Apart 143: Web Design, Code, Content features a double issue on Flash MX this week.
Joe Clarck evaluates Flash MX in context of WAI and Section 508 guidelines (accessibility)
Andre Kirkpatrick tackles Flash MX from the developer's perspective, with information of how authors can easily generate accessible Flash content.
David Emberton writes at ActionScript.com : Flash MX Security Whitepaper
Twenty three pages of what you need to know about the Flash Player 6 sandbox security system, and how it can help you build better dynamic apps.[...]
Flash Player 6 features a more sophisticated setup. Each movie loaded from a separate domain exists in its own "sandbox," effectively cutting it off from additional domains unless you specificy them via the System.security object. The rules are slightly different for standalone players. As far as I can tell, System.security is undocumented anywhere except in this whitepaper.
ABCNEWS.com writes about Online Ads Become Active and Intrusive.
They have all failed, banner ads, skyscrapers, pop-up ads, etc. We all ignore them, and almost nobody click on them anymore. Click through rates used to be at 5-6% in the early days of the web, but now the average click through rate is two-tenths of a percent.
The next move is commercials you won't be able to ignore, full page ads that separate you from the content you want to see. For Flash developers, there should be a lot more work coming up making light-weight multimedia commercials for the web.
Full page ads will probably annoy the users, but I belive they are the only way to get the average web-users attention these days. And I would survive having to deal with them, as long as I am given the option to pay a reasonable fee to view a site without commercials.
What do you think?
Chris MacGregor has called out to Come on... upgrade!
Amongst other, he writes:
With the advanced features of Flash MX, including the long-awaited standard UI components, we in the Flash community need to promote the Flash 6 plug-in on our sites. From a usability perspective alone, having standard interactions that work the same across different Flash sites (like scroll-bars) is a tremendous boost to the user-experience that Flash offers
Having the Flash 6 player accepted as soon as possible will most certainly be beneficial to everyone producing Flash content, in many aspects including improved usability. But we are again in a situation where using the newest Flash player from Macromedia is a double edged sword, do we really want people to upgrade to a player we all know has several serious bugs?
I am still waiting for the announcement from Macromedia regarding the fixes for the Flash 6 player...
My last employer Netron is filing for bankruptcy, its really sad to see a company with creativity, spirit and courage to go their own way going down the drain.
For Netron it was the total silence in the market after 9-11 that did it. The company never recovered after having to go months without much work. I wish the best for all the people I worked with, each of them became dear friends and I will miss working together with them on a daily basis, but hopefully we will all be able to work on projects together from time to time.
Its strange how life changes, lets hope this turn is for the better for everyone involved.
Ok, ok. I fell for it. I took the quiz to find out which of the "monty Python and the Holy Grail" characters I am.
which "monty python and the holy grail" character are you?
this quiz was made by colleen
Wired: Flash News Flash: It's Accessible
Wired News writes about how Flash has become more userfriendly with the arival of Flash MX and the work done by people like Jason Smith that has made a Flash captioning tool that will be made available at Macromedia.com withing a month.
Chris MacGregor (of Flazoom.com) is quoted in the story with some choice words about usability and Flash.
John Dowdell has some comments about the Flash player's assistive routines for screen readers
Dave is probably gonna be happy if he reads this, another convert to the Outliner crew.
I was structuring my day today, and found myself structuring the items on my list just like one would with an outliner (like the one in Radio), so this evening I just gave in and spent about $40 US for the program.
I have only just gotten started, so I am in no ways an Outliner pro yet, but I am at least on my way. I must admit that for a guy that talks so warmly of outliners, its a little strange that its not possible to render the outliner to HTML in any easy way in Dave's weblog product. I just end up with an error when I try to use the built in function, temporarily I have been using an add-on tool (Print Outline Tool) that generates the HTML for me.
But I want, no - I need for this to work in the program itself (that is, with the built in functions, darn it! ;-) - it would be too stupid if it wasn't possible. Will have to look at getting it to work tomorrow (if its at all possible without having to use the tools option).
Josh Dura and Keran McKenzie (http://www.studiowhiz.com) has released a Flash MX component site. At the moment the site only has a couple of components from Macromedia, but I guess I should forgive them - after all the site was launched today.
Selling and offering Flash components is probably going to become bigger than the availability of Flash FLAs earlier, mainly because components makes it easier for unskilled flash developers and designers to use them to implement functionallity in their Flash projects.
Another site with a broader selection of Flash componentes is Flashcomponents.net and Macromedia also have their own selection of Flash Components
DaveNet : How to be a revolution
Today Dave digged into his vaste archives and went back 4 years, to when the Mozilla/Netscape Open Source project was launched, and a lot of words for and against Open Source was flying through the air. He wrote:
"It isn't about open source, it's about open minds. "
In the same article he writes about the mentors that his generation had when he was an aspiering programmer, I quote directly:
They were our surrogate fathers, caring about our success, enjoying it vicariously. I had my own angel, a man named Bill Jordan. When I was in my 20s and 30s, he was in his 50s and 60s. He taught me a lot. I owe much of my success to Bill.
I think one of the aspects Dave seem to have missed about Open Source, is that (at least in some cases) it is our surrogat mentors - Its the aspiering programmers way of learning how to program well, and learn by good example. Not everyone has the luck of getting a skilled, experienced programmer as their mentor. I am not saying that looking at source code is the only way to get wise in programming, or that all open source code is good examples of good coding - but it sure does help to have the good open source examples to try and follow. Not to mention the fact that the Open Source movement has actually created some of the building blocks of the internet and web we see today.
I agree that all projects doesn't have to be Open Source projects, but at the same time I disagree strongly with the notion of it being a cancer, like some high level Microsoft executives seems to want us to belive.
At least according to the test at "The Political Compass"
Macromedia has added the following technote: Macromedia: Macromedia Flash Player 6 Streaming Issue
The problem, to quote Macromedia:
"when loading media into Macromedia Flash Player 6, the media will continue to load even if Macromedia Flash Player 6 makes additional requests for media (i.e. .swf, .jpg or .mp3 files), or if the user leaves the web page. "
John Dowdell says he hasn't seen many posts about this being a problem for anyone, so I guess I should stand up and tell you about our problems at Flashmagazine.com.
We have been lucky enough to avoid most of the problems associated with the bug (at least we have no way of really knowing that it is affecting us day to day). But we have had examples of how bad it could become, one user caused a download of more than 360 MB over 1 hour on our site this month, with the Flash 6 player and while downloading very big files, files we used to use in our Flash radio system. The nature of the player and the way streaming has been possible without any problems in Flash until the now infamous Flash 6 player, allowed us to let users stream large audio files. If we had the Flash radio up and running today, we would probably have needed to shut it down since users were supposed to start streams, jump in them, and switch between them at choice.
I can only imagine how the bug must affect people making available larger video files with the new video capability in Flash MX (Since the bug is well known by now, I have a feeling few would be foolish enough to do that right now). I think the bug is a ugly and bad one, and actually worse than the XML bug that plagued the first versions of the Flash 5 player.
I am looking forward to Macromedia releasing an updated version of their Flash 6 player addressing this serious issue.
XML-RPC Flash Lib by Pedro Ornelas
Interesting Flash library for adding XML-RPC capability to Flash, I have several things I could think of using this for, will see how much time I have to fiddle with it..
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the dynamics of the third world getting online.
Interesting story, found it on John's weblog, originally from Slashdot.
I think the story says a lot about how we all should be open and just jump into things, like we used to when we were kids. And also that we don't always have to guide the children in their learning process, sometimes its better to just nurture their curiosity and then stand back and see what happens.
John picked up on my note, and took the time to return with his thoughs about documentation (On Documentation). It is interesting to read the views of someone coming from the tech support part of a software house such as Macromedia - and the ways that their tasks have changed as they move more towards offering products that are made to create new applications/products, and less and less just "clean" applications like word processors. (Not that they ever did make word processors, but you hopefully understand where I am going).
I think Macromedia is on the right track when it comes to making available resources for their products, both in the ways of tutorials, articles, the Macromedia Exchange etc. But as a developer I find that most of the time what I am doing is coding, and what I am looking for from a vendor is not tutorials, components etc, but rather good structured documentation of functions etc. often needed when coding. And that is something I haven't been able to find a good resource for at Macromedia Online for any of their products. (They do offer books for reference to ActionScript etc, and also ship their products with documetnation on CD-rom, but it seems they have decided to skip making that available online).
I took some time to look through their site today, and I could find technotes, tutorials etc, but no well stuctured and well written documentation of their scripting languages. (Such as Flash MX, Coldfusion (CFML) etc.) I could not find any easy links to such content on the Macromedia site, but there are tons of tutorials, articles and other content. I must admit, I am kind of baffled at the lack of the part of the documetnation I would have thought was most important.
NB: David Burrows is also writing about documentation and commenting on the RTFM article. I like his metaphor: "Documentation as narrative? I'd prefer to think of it as building a house"
Interesting article in Wired: The Blogging Revolution
If you are using Internet Explorer as your browser, using the back button could expose you to malicious code.
Microsofts reaction?
«because the proposed exploit scenario is dependent upon specific user interaction as a prerequisite, it does not meet our definition of a security vulnerability.»
Another Big MS Browser Hole Found
The security fix? Switch to Opera today.
More cool stuff, there is a lot of work being put into making a good Flash frontend for Google:
I hope you get to check out the Google Box I have added, using Sebastian Bergmann's excellent Google API PHP class together with PEAR's SOAP client (soon to get a homepage).
Ohh, BTW: I can't wait till someone connects Moveable Type with the Google spellcheck. The spellcheck Paolo Valdermarin calls "The most democratic dictionary" (well worth a read for an insight to the spellcheck / dictionary and how it possibly works). Until someone gets the spellcheck wired into MT, I guess I will have to live with Hypertext Webster Gateway. Hmm, maybe someone should give them a hint about exposing their API?
Scott is covering and taking part in the wiring of the Google API to the web. Latest news is hot wiring Mozilla with its SOAP client to the Google API via JavaScript. Cool stuff.
Russ Lipton writes about documentation. I must say I share many of the same thoughs about the lack of documentation for a lot of products/technologies. (Hey John, are you reading this?).
I haven't really gone deep into Radio, but what I have seen - is that they are using their own tool (eating their own dog food) for documentation. Not sure if I like it or not, I must say that in everyday work I put in high regards the documentation for PHP - which to me is a meeting of official documentation of functions etc. and the community of developers that code in PHP and find their own best solutions and share their experiences in user added notes to the documentation mixed together with active moderators. All in all the mix put together at php.net works really well. I wish the commercial companies would get something resembeling php.net's greatness up and running.
Marc Rotenberg revisits Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451:
Fahrenheit 451 is not simply about book burning. This is a world where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the private. There is no intellectual life. There is no political life. Interactive broadband technology provides endless entertainment through the full-screen images that appear on the walls of a parlor room. Words of meaning cannot be transmitted in any physical media. They must be memorized and passed on as they were before the printing press, before the written word.
This is one of my favorite books, it really kick starts thoughts of how valuable free flow of information actually is.
Well written by Hanan Cohen about the situation in Israel and the west bank:
INFO.ORG.IL - Death does not justif Death
Los Angeles Times writes:
What if you could take a pill and stretch your day--by skipping sleep?That sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a drug called Provigil could make it possible. Studies have shown that this new medication allows people to remain awake and attentive when their bodies normally crave shut-eye, without suffering the unpleasant side effects and risk of addiction associated with caffeine, amphetamines and other stimulants.
A few implementations of the Google API has surfaced:
SoapWare.Org : Services > Google API > Implementations
And Dave Winer has some thoughts about «What's next after the Google API?»
Finnaly gotten around to update Moveable type today, so now we are at version 2.0 :-)
I did it in part to be able to include searches from Google directly in my weblog, through the Google API - Josh Cooper has made available a hack for Moveable Type to make Google's API work with it. I can get it to work, the only problem is that the building of the pages never stops, and that the process that it starts continues to hug as much cpu as possible from the server for an eternity (or at least, many minutes). I have confirmed that the data has been transfered, it only seems like the whole thing gets trapped in a loop. Might be a bug with my implementation of it, will have to look at it when I am more awake..
Any tips and tricks from others that have gotten it to work apriciated... :-)
Wired has an interesting article in their latest issue, about 6 machines that changed the music world. Its all about how technology made to do one thing, ends up doing something completely different and at the same time makes a small revolution. Almost like some other technologies I am involved with..
Wired 10.05: Six Machines That Changed The Music World
James D. Miller writes about weblogs and their future. In many ways he talks in the same way about weblogging and indepentent writers as other have before him about free and/or open source software, claming there is no economics in weblogs. I tend to disagree, still beliving in the economics of attention, best described by Michael H. Goldhaber in Attention Shoppers! in Wired's decemeber issue 1997.
James also makes the mistake of arguing that multimedia will be the killer of weblogs, since the flashier video/sound sites will take the attention away from the regular weblogs. I think he is wrong on two fronts:
1. Text is still a killer medium, and will be for a very long time to come.
2. Bandwidth is a commodity which will only become more available in time. Hosting multimedia sites are becoming easier and easier by the day, not to mention cheaper. The launch of Sorenson's Vcast network for instance, has made hosting streaming video sites a commodity most websites can afford. And its only the beginning.
John Dowdell has picked me up on his radar, and found some of my comments about the FlashForward conference and the lack of wireless connectivity, he also linked to a very interesting article I should have mentioned here, by Esther Dyson regarding the use of Wi-Fi/Wlan at PC Forum and what it led to. (See one of my past blogs)
I really think that conferences can gain a lot from adding Wireless internet access in getting a new dynamic to them, and actually using the brain-capital available. I have a hundred ideas of how Wi-Fi/Wlan could help super charge conferences, together with the right colaboration technology..
This is great news, Samuel Wan, one of the great Flash developers that adds so much value to the Flash community has put up his own weblog. Looks like he has been at it for a little while, but he has passed by my radar screen. And now it turns out he has his weblog up and running, and not only that, he is using Moveable Type and he has made a Flash MX interface (source here) for his weblog! (Its still a prototype, so you might want to wait for the release version).
Samuel Wan : News, Information and Resources
Thanks to RC6 for this great link. I knew work was a dangerous place...
When office supplies attack
Wired has put together a list of top 5 bloggs based on the MIT's Blogdex
This is great news for people wanting to hook into the most powerful search engine on the web. Google has released its API (basically an interface towards its huge database of websites)
With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 2 billion web documents directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment - such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET.
Dave Winer of Userland provides some more links to get aquinted with Google's API:
- Using the Google API
- Rael Dornfest on the Google Web API
And Dave himself with:
- Google is just the juice
I guess its time to say that Weblogs has gone mainstream. Since January Userland and The New York Times have been working on making available the New York Times Newsfeed to the weblog community.
DaveNet : New York Times, UserLand and Weblogs
The first "stable" release of Apache has been released, this is good news for everyone using Apache, and especially for those using Apache on non-linux platforms. Check out the news at Apache.org: New features with Apache 2.0
BBC writes about Morrison and Foerster in San Francisco that is going after one of the big spam companies.
The San Francisco office of Morrison and Foerster, also known as MoFo, is one of the first outfits in the United States to take on spammers who send out unsolicited commercial e-mail.
The law firm has recived a lot of support for its suit against the spam company Etracks, one writes:
"I hate spam as much as the next guy. Take these jerks for everything they've got. You are pinch hitting for all of us. I love you."
I can only give a big AOL to that.
A couple of new weblogs covering Flash has appeared on the radar, one is John Dowdell's "JD on MX". John is a hightly visible guy in the Flash community, he has been working at Macromedia since 1993 and are usualy right in the middle of things going on. His private weblog has become a very interesting read!
Samuel Wan has also gotten up his own weblog, actually based upon Moveable Type - but with his own Flash MX interface added to it. Sam is a very knowledgeable guy, and reading his weblog should give you some new insight into Flash MX and OOP. :-)
Home again after the FlashForward 2002 conference in San Francisco. Still amazed that they actually managed to put on a conference without any internet connectivity. I was hoping they were up-to-date and with the times, and Wi-Fi wired, but they didn't even get up a regular internet center/cafe at the conference! They had a lot of new iMac's there, but I am guessing they were trying to save money and ended up with a contractor that couldn't make the system work in the time they had. Bad move, IMHO.
The conference was fairly good, lots of good networking and always nice to see my conference friends again. The last FF conference I attended had three tracks (three different speakers at the same time) and a workshop, but this one was just one track and over two days without any workshops. Doing a conference about a specific technology with only one track puts extra importance on the quality of the speakers. Fortunalty most of the conference had good sessions, but there was more than one session that most could have just as well done without. One was Hillman Curtis, a knowledgeable man for sure, but using an hour talking about how "content is king" wasn't really what I or others
were hoping for or needed.
This is probably the least cool way to access the internet I have come across so far. Sitting in LAX on the way to the airplane (going to be interesting to see how tight the security check is here, its rumored to be bad). Using Neptune terminal, and this is bad...
[update]
That was what I had the time to type in the 12 minutes I got for 3 US dollars at the LAX airport. The equiptment at the Internet kiosks there was pretty bad, but better than no interent connectivity at all (which is what I got at Heathrow, if anyone knows about ways to get connected at Heathrow, let me know :-) Didn't get to check if I could get the mobile phone working against the provider at Heathrow, but I know from before that I can get internet through my mobile in London, so it might have worked with enough tweaking.
I feel out of touch, out of ... well.. the basics in life. Have been without internet and e-mail access for some days now, funny how "easy" it was to connect in San Francisco compared to Irvine, Los Angeles. I guess everybody and their dog has internet access around here, but I have yet to find a Wireless internet connection hotspot that I can connect to. Which leaves the whole Wi-Fi "revolution" rather moot there in the US.
Some might remember that I wasn't able to connect to the Wi-Fi network at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo - I am starting to think that all the raving is just a bunch of raving about nothing, to be totally honest. And that the only way to actually get internet access via Wi-Fi when you are traveling, is to aquire access to networks you aren't really supposed to be on....
Here in LA I haven't even been able to be allowed to connect my laptop, so I can't easily access all my e-mail from my laptop and have that convinience, it really sucks. The center I am at now - Kinko's is actually a nice business center, but not really the coolest setting for accessing the net. Damn, somebody needs to get the revolution happening here in the US for sure, and in Norway too I think. Might be something to get into, setting up hotspots in Oslo and competing with the big telcos. Telenor, one of the major telcos in Norway has actually decided to charge the same for Wi-Fi connections as they do for GPRS, which means you will have to pay 100 NKR for the first MB of download (thats about 12 US dollar for the first MB) and then 25 NKR (about 3 US dollar) pr. MB after that. If you ask me, thats a total rip-off. Shouldn't be hard to compete with that. What we need in Norway is a system simular to Joltage where they apply a revenue sharing model to those who set up connection points, that way its a lot easier to build a network - not needing the big bucks to build up the infrastructure. Probably something to look into how to do when I get back to Norway.
Still majorly disapointed about the lack of internet connectivity at FlashForward, not being able to post from there is probably made me not post as much as I would have in other circumstances. Oh well, their loss - or something like that.
Did some interesting interviews today for FlashMagazine, and we have some really good writers that just might do some articles for us, I really hope that will happen. We are going to be putting up some video clips on the web, with streaming stuff that should be really neat, I will let you all know more when we get closer to it. Going to be interesting to start working with video, at least I have the content, now lets see what I can do with it. :-)
The next FlashForward will be held in New York City on the 10th to the 12th of July in the New Yorker Hotel, it will be a small event like this one, probably seating less people that this one (850, of which 750 tickets was sold). But it will be a three day event with workshops and two tracks - so there should be more to it than this. Mind you, all the speaches of this conference was great (anything else, and I would have suggested that they find other things to do). I especially liked the video with Flash MX that Danny Mavromatis of ESPN.com had, and the last speach of the conference by Steve Belfer of Warner Bros. Online about "Deconstructing Animation: Looney Tunes Unleashed". The ESPN.com one was a lot more usefull, but both was very well presented. (As was all the other speaches).
Sitting at the hotel, in a suite that actually has high speed internet access :-) Done with a long day at Flashforward2002 San Francisco, and just got Flashmagazine.com updated with some news items from the conference, and with the Flash Film Festival winners.
The Herbst Theater in San Francisco is a nice place for the conference. Its sad that there is only one track this year, so everyone have to be in the same hall. A lot fewer speakers on this festival than any of the other FlashForward conferences I have been to. It is also sad that an internet related conference such as this one doesn't get their shit together and get up internet access for their atendees, I am talking about regular internet access, not a Wireless hot spot (although that would have been the best, IMHO).
In an unexpected move, Google today released detailed information on how their technology for ranking web pages work.
Google Technology
Been fooled yet? I have been looking out for april fools stories this morning, and haven't really found any yet. Know of a good media/web april fools that has been unraveled today? Let me know...
My camera is acting up. I first thought it was a spot on the lense, but I am starting to belive it is something else, maybe a grain inside the lense.
The strange thing is that it only shows up on blue sky backgrounds, but are as good as invisible on white (as far as I can see from the picures I have taken so far). Was trying to clean the lense last evening, while taking a panorama shot of the view from my hotel room, but couldn't fix it, no matter how much I cleaned the lense.
Oh, if anyone have a good tip on good photo-stitching panorama software, let me know. Tried out a program this morning, but it sucked big time.
At least my camera isn't as bad (in this case, I would be tempted to say unfortunatly) as the magic camera, take a look at what you can achive with a little water and blow drying of a Nikon Coolpix 990: Waterlogged Camera Turns Magic
Its been a really nice day here in San Francisco. Got up around 8.30, and took my time. After that I did a walk-about and just ended up at the Yerba Buena gardens, a really nice place in SF. Had a better sallad-lunch from Starbucks (amazingly), and tried something new - Ginger Lemon-lemonade :-) It was a nice and healthy lunch. Met a photographer and ended up chatting for an hour, then got back to the hotel and uploaded my pictures from the day to the laptop. :-) If the supper is as good as the rest of the food I have had today, then this day will be a nice and perfect sunday in San Francisco. :-)
