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.

FlashComponent.com

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