Check out http://actforvictory.org/ohiofraud.php for more information about this latest dirty trick to stop thousands of new Ohio voters from voting.

I just watched the trailer for the soon-to-be-released film, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry. I’m happy to say that it will be playing at the Arclight Cinemas near my apartment in Hollywood. As I watched this trailer, it occurred to me that I haven’t seen so many films to get information (whether it’s accurate or not, time will tell) out to the public—and people are paying to see these films. From Fahrenheit 9/11 to Outfoxed to Uncovered, I’ve never seen so much coverage pertaining to any one administration (or the rival candidate) as this. If you want to watch the trailer, go to:

http://www.goingupriver.com/trailer_main.html

If you see the film, please come back and post your comments.

 A few people have emailed me about problems they’ve had using PrintJob in Flash Player 7 to print large-sized MovieClip content. Essentially, the problem lies in the fact that there’s a one-to-one relationship of pixels to point sizes on the printed page. For example, if you have a stage that’s 1024 pixels wide and try to print that stage on a portrait orientation 8.5” x 11” piece of paper, only a portion of the stage will actually print on the paper. Why? 1024 pixels is 14.2 inches wide (1024 / 72 = 14.222 in), which is wider than 8.5”. Therefore, at least 5.7 inches of your stage width will not print (actually, a little bit more, since most printers cannot print edge to edge on a piece of paper). The best way to fill a page with Flash content is to scale the MovieClip content to fit the paper size (during the printjob process), and then scale it back to its original size when the printing has finished. You can see an example of this in the Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible on page 551, and I recently created a quick example here:

http://www.flashsupport.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1543

My eldest brother (I have three brothers and three sisters) recently sent me this e-mail:

The National Weather Service has issued a warning for yet another
catastrophic hurricane following on the heels of Ivan and Jeanne.
The path of this hurricane zigs and zags, and is therefore highly
unpredictable. Experts predict that this one will cause the most
damage to the United States that we have experienced in four years.
They are naming this one Hurricane Kerry.
Be advised, the only way for citizens to protect themselves is by
hiding behind a Bush

I responded with this picture, saying “Speaking of hurricanes…” :

(URL to picture is http://bash.org/GODvsBUSH.gif )

Over the weekend, Snow and I went to see the Rodney Graham show titled “A Little Thought” at Los Angeles’ MoCA The Geffen Contemporary. Many of his pieces were from the last ten years, short films around 4 to 8 minutes each. The DVD projections were quite nice, and most of the films were designed to be seamless loops. If you find yourself downtown by Little Tokyo anytime before November 29th, you should definitely make time for this show.

My pal Troy Gardner just im’d me a link to some powerful animation script classes for use in Flash MX 2004. Check ‘em out at:

http://www.alex-uhlmann.de/flash/animationpackage/index.htm

My co-author on the ActionScript Bible series recently posted a nice article on a custom class scope proxy he designed to “fix” problems with the new Delegate class shipped with the Flash MX 2004 7.2 updater. Check it out at:

http://www.person13.com/articles/proxy/Proxy.htm

This weekend, I managed to get Macromedia Generator running as a servlet on JRun 4, over multiple instances of ColdFusion MX 6.1. I’ll post an article on the blog site soon, detailing how it can be done. Many thanks to Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers at Macromedia for their insight and guidance!

Earlier this week, I presented two sessions at the MXimize Conference in Boston, at the Hilton Hotel (located right at the airport). My first session was titled Juggling Objects: Mastering Data Providers, and covered a range of options for binding data to Flash UI components, using ActionScript and/or the new Data components. My second session, Importing Content with ActionScript, discussed the various API’s for loading text, graphics, and video into Flash movies at runtime. You can find my presentation notes and example files here:

http://conferences.schematic.com/2004/mximize/

I recently found a nice summary of e-mail address formats that you can use to send an SMS to a phone, from your email client. See http://arul.telenet-systems.com/info/sms.php for more details.