Seems every Tom, Dick and Harry these days is talking about and hawking their Twitter. I’m trying to figure out when I started Tweeting – searched my email and found a message from Eddie, dated March 11th, 2007 simply saying “http://twitter.com”.

I’m thinking then I’ve been tweeting for over two years, and to say the technology, support and people using it has changed drastically is an understatement, but I’ve been using it the exact same way from day one. Here’s an example of both of these concepts. I used the site http://myfirsttweet.com to find my very first tweet (there’s a friggin’ cottage industry of these kinds of site):

danthebeast: Breaking this twitter cherry like so many sunflower seeds. 2007-04-12 22:38:00

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… but then a really really great one comes along.

We do pro bono projects because we believe in them.  Plain and Simple.  Well, at least it starts that way – a simple, understated design, but a definite step up from our non-profit-of-the-moment’s original site. Months later, hours of design and dev time later, paying-clients-schedules-pushed-back-to-accommodate-our-passion later, we come out with a beautiful project and a terrible story.  But surely I jest.

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Visual effects studio OOOii was given the opportunity to create the visual interfaces for JJ Abrams new Star Trek movie. Typically, this is all done in post production and the actors have to pretend they are interacting with a super computer from the future. However, with the power of Flash and AIR, OOOii created numerous interfaces allowing the actors to interact in real time with actual working applications during many of the films scenes. Read more about it on Lee Brimelow’s Flash Blog.

I found an issue when trying to tell an instance of JW Player what to do from jQuery.  Here’s my code:

$('#broadcast_player').get(0).sendEvent('PLAY', false);

This video wasn’t stopping like it should.  I found a thread with the answer:

For Linux, add the flashvar id=player1 to match the name and id in your object code. Jeroen added the idflashvar specifically for Linux.

I did that and it worked.