Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

The first two parts of Scott McCloud's micropayment experiment are now available for all to see.

"The Right Number" is a Flash-based comic that uses an intriguing panel zoom approach to tell a story of "math, sex, obsession and phone numbers". Part three will follow at some point in the future.

Coloured lighting in the recessed ceiling of the Barbican concert hall foyer.

London
April 2007

Last week I met up with Adobe's Mike Downey to talk about Apollo. Here's the result of our conversation, a piece now up on the Developer Register.

Adobe's senior product manager for Apollo, Mike Downey was in London last week. We met him at Adobe's Regents Park offices, and in a wide ranging conversation we talked about the past, the present and the future of Apollo.

Downey worked with some of the most senior engineers in the company to develop Apollo: “It's the highest profile project in the company”, he says.

Read more - and get my scoop on some of Adobe's plans for the next release...

...as my Moo cards arrive.

Oooh, they're pretty!

I wasn't sure how they would come out, as they're slices cropped through photographs, but I'm really quite pleased with how they came out.

It's spring, it's conference season and we're off on the road...

If you'd like to meet up with us for business or pleasure, here's where we expect to be and when.

April 27	Fly to Las Vegas via LAX
April 30 - May 3	MIX 07 and MEDC in Las Vegas
May 4 - 7	(Zion National Park and environs)
May 8 - 10	Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando
May 11 - 17	Los Angeles - Windows Hardware Engineering conference and meeting time
May 18 - 21	San Jose: Maker's Faire in San Mateo, Salesforce.com Developer Day
May 22 - 25	Future in Review in San Diego
May 26 - June 3	San Jose (May 29 - 30 Where 2.0 in San Jose)
June 4 - 8	TechEd in Orlando
June 11	Fly back to London

Do get in touch if you have projects, clients, lunch ideas or events you think we'd be interested along the way.

I seem to have bought Baycon memberships for myself and marypcb .

We had a ball at the last one we attended, so we're looking forward to seeing lots of folk again...