Well, I’ve not posted much lately, but I really want to get back to it.

I was forced to tend to this blog because the amount of comments on one of my post’s has become really large, well large enough to make the page take a while to load, so I added this very nifty WP plugin called Paged Comments. I highly suggest this, very very handy.

I have been messing around here and there with Flex/AS3 and FisixEngine. But not nearly as much as I would like. I had a brother that passed away in October, and so I haven’t been very social, and haven’t been posted enough!

I promise to start posting more!! Honest!!

I am happy to know that the FisixEngine API Docs have been released.

I have volunteered to help create some tutorials for the FisixEngine, Mr. Michaeli (Oz) has invited me to create a ragdoll tutorial for the engine, and I am really excited to get started once it becomes available to me.

I really do not see how any flash developer could not be super excited about this project, I know I am!

When I naively starting blogging, it never occurred to me that I would have problems that I’m sure many other bloggers are having these days. I’m talking about blog article piracy. I recently discovered more than 15 sites who have decided upon themselves to take one of my most hard-worked articles and stick it up on their site. For example, look at this site who took my entire article and slapped it on thier site: http:// www*webknowhow*net/dir/Other_Resources/articles/SmartRedirect.html (remove spaces and replace *’s with .’s).

Now this is petty compared to all the other kinds of piracy that goes on, I am aware of this. But where does it end? What sort of options does a blogger have in his or her defense? I don’t mind when other sites provide snippets of my article and talk about it a bit. But when somebody blatantly steals your article and slaps it on their site and calls it their own, it boils my blood!

What can a blogger do?

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I value the alone-time I have to get a lot of work done on a saturday, but sometimes what you would usually be doing on a saturday sticks to you. For instance… look at what happened after working today (saturday) alone in the office:

And… after a quick run through photoshop:

Picture was taken with my cell phone, so no rants about the image quality.

However, I DID manage to get a lot of much-needed work done.

My buddy over at Atariboy is standing his ground against a ridiculous attempt by the UK hosting giant called “Redstation”. Apparently Redstation really didnt like this post that Andrew wrote. Consisting what seems very believable information displayed in the format of his opinion in regards to how poorly Redstation treated him.

So basically now, Redstation’s lawyers sent him a letter threatening to sue if he doesn’t remove his blog post about it. This is just ridiculous, forcing a blogger to remove his opiinion from his blog. Anyway, check it out and see what you make of it: http://atariboy.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/redstation-trys-to-censor-the-internet/