Author: Nick Hodge

Travel Overload

Another day, another flight. The plan: 2 hours at San Jose “international” airport. 1 hour flight San Jose to LAX. 5 hours layover. 14 hours LAX to Sydney. 3 hours layover. 3 hours Sydney to Auckland. Total = 29 hours “on the road”. Yes, sports fans, jetsetting is a glamorous lifestyle of the rich and famous. And what makes it worse: I have about 467,000 Qantas Freaky Flyer points – and its impossible to do anything with them.

For those in New Zealand, I’ll see you at Printtech 2002. You will find me at the Fuji-Xerox stand doing mini-training courses on InDesign 2.0.

I love visiting New Zealand. It has to be the most beautiful place in the world. Thankfully, I get to visit as a part of my job. When I told my friends at Adobe US I “was off to NZ” after this visit to the US, they were all amazed… Kia Kaha!

Ok, this is coolness. Sitting in the terminal @ San Jose International Airport – wirelessly online and able to send emails. Alan Rosenfeld and I are now so sick of the musak we’ve got our headphones on and are doing work. Alan is listening to African music wishing he was still on holiday. I am listening to Neil Finn – to get into a NZ mood. Saturday in San Jose, Monday in Auckland.

Video to India

Video day today. Appeared in a soon-to-be-released show talking about Photoshop 7. Lots of fun flubbing lines and making a fool of myself. All for 2.5 minutes of air time. Felt like an info-mercial geek. Then later in the day on a video conference link to Noida (near New Delhi) in India. Didn’t have to wear shoes in either instance!

Got 5 minutes? Look at this: Generate your own South Park character

I think I’ll buy the new Moby album 18.

Coldfusion, SOAP

90% completed a Visual Basic frontend to the mungenetengine. This should make it easier to update and edit some of the content on the site, with resorting to copy and paste. The original interface is a forms/web based thing.

Strange days. Had an email from a Dreamweaver/Coldfusion MX user saying that the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server was the first successful SOAPweb service he could connect to. Nothing like helping the competition!

mungenetengine

GoLive 6: Adobe’s Open Source Embrace. A good read if you are into databases, PHP, GoLive et al.

As as 1.30pm, the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server has served 1000 lyrics!

OK, so I felt guilty. Spent some time creating table versions of the templates for those few people who are stuck in the late 1990s with Netscape 4.x and similar. The css is also customised slightly, too. mungenetengine will dynamically determine the browser you are using, and serve up the same content, just slightly modified depending on your browser.