Flex

If you're looking for a way to create RIAs, you should consider Flex.

Soon, I'll provide a link to a site (still a work in progress) using this (fantastic) Adobe technology

Maybe I'll post a few tutorials or extra info at a later point (uh, when I'm an expert :) ). In the meantime and a spirit of fairness, here are links to competitors:

• Microsoft Silverlight


• Sun JavaFX

Girls, my advice to you

Mai Chau

Mai Chau is just under 150km South of Hanoi, Vietnam, where we have spent 2 blissful days doing just about nothing apart from gawking at the scenery and eating good food. Elgee brings you the view from guesthouse 26, where we were staying.

This is the view from the edge of the village, which is surrounded first by rice paddies then by the mountains. Of course, it is impossible to accurately describe rice paddies in rainy monsoon mornings. All shades from leaf green to buttercup yellow, undulating under a quiet breeze. Aaaaaah.

The Lion

 
Khun Thong has persuaded yours truly to start yoga, at least minimally, in order to alleviate the loss of eyesight associated with fooling around with computers. This picture I absolutely wanted to show you, yours truly in The Lion posture. So yeah, I actually do this thing every morning. Tadaaaaaam!

Felicia

 

Felicia is our housepet. She's sitting on a sac of offspring (see if you can spot it in the picture), has been sitting on it for the past few days, and we all hope to be around when the little kiddies come out. Will they eat mama? Will mama eat them? She's got to be hungry, hardly moving at all and definitely not enough for pizza!

Awwwwwwwwwwww! Isn't it sweet?