Category Archives: Diary

Fun with Flash

I’m struggling with my Flash class. Oh, I get the assignments done and I expect I’ll do fine in the class … that’s not it. The problem is that Flash is fun. Steve says I’m “becoming a convert”. I’ve always dissed Flash sites. “Flashturbation”, I’ve heard them called. Silly splash screens with long load times and irritating animations which don’t work if the proper plug-in isn’t installed on the viewer’s computer. Inaccessible to folks surfing with screen readers. All still true and yet … Flash is fun.

Here are my first attempts at Flash animation and web design. Turn on your speakers (special thanks to my sound engineer, Steve). Don’t expect much … these are homework assignments and as such, projects that only a mother (and probably a sister) could love. I doubt Disney will hire me any time soon …

And now I better stop playing with Flash and get to work on Dad’s project. His deadlines are much tighter than my instructors!

Could you say “no” to this face?

Ginger Dog

A co-worker sent me this photo, taken last Friday at City Hall of Ginger as a poster dog for the Animal Friends Rescue Project. Now you see why I had (as my neighbor put it) “no self-control” when it came to adopting her. Her little face spoke loud and clear … “I am yours. Take me home.” She may have said it to everyone who walked by but I am the lucky one who listened.