Wayne D's Blog

I don't know if it's blogging late at night or blogging on the eeepc but I have noticed that my posts are gettng published with more typos now then previously. I shall try to be more diligent in my copy editing in the future.

I managed to miss watching Guinea Pig on Monday night. I really must put together a Myth TV PVR soon. When I went to Discovery,ca to see if they offered the show in a streaming version I was delighted to find that even though that particular episode wasn't available they did offer flash video streaming of other episodes. Flash streaming video works great on Linux. For many years Linux users had to be satisfied with a not so good implementation of flash. Macromedia didn't release Flash 8 for Linux. That changed when Adobe decided to make simultaneous releases of Flash 9 on Windows and Linux. Now Linux users enjoy the same web experience that Windows users do.

Microsoft, seeing the success of Flash in the marketplace has decided to release Silverlight which is their version of Flash. They call it cross platform but to Microsoft that means Windows and Mac. Some hardy souls hve announced that they are going to do a Linux version of Silverlight, but how much help do you think they will get from Microsoft? For a more in depth discussion of why Silverlight is such a bad ideas see silverlight bags another one at the malocite blog.