Fun

My new desk: awesome laptop and monitor stands for Macbook Pro

by kai 16/07/2010

Well, it’s technically not a new desk, but rather a new desk/workstation layout. Thomas from World Sweet World, a friend of mine, is very talented when it comes to crafts, working with wood, renovating and building furniture and so much more. About three years ago, I saw an awesome laptop stand for his MacBook Pro in his office and I wanted one. As it usually happens – he didn’t have the time to make me one at the time, we forgot about it etc. 🙂

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Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington 2010

by kai 01/05/2010

Come along and learn about Adobe’s Flash Platform and creative tools for building Rich Internet Applications: Flash, Flex, AIR, Flash Catalyst, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash Builder, BlazeDS, LiveCycle DS, LiveCycle Designer and lots more. This is also a place to meet and greet, share cool stuff, try out new technologies and code together with other like-minded people.

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I’m flying an AirNZ 777-200

by kai 25/02/2010

The next action item after being to the Engineering base was the 777-sim ride. Air NZ has two simulator and training buildings in the vicinity of Auckland Airport.

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A visit at Air New Zealand’s Engineering Base in Auckland

by kai 24/02/2010

This is the second post about my awesome day on Monday. After @blauerpunto and I arrived in Auckland, Mark Farley from Air NZ picked us up at the air bridge. Mark is a Flight Service Manager with Air New Zealand but also does a lot of work on the ground. One of his projects is crew management, training and planning for a project Air NZ runs together with Hawaiian Airlines (more on that further down).

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An awesome day with Air New Zealand

by kai 23/02/2010

Yesterday, I had one of the most awesome days of my life. It would rate it right below the category comprising “Getting married to @blauerpunto” and “Getting permanent residency in New Zealand” and on a very similar level with stuff such as “Flying in a small airplane for the first time” and “Going solo in a small airplane for the first time”.

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Best use of AIR so far? :)

by kai 17/07/2008

I got this via Matt Voerman while having a Skype chat conversation with him. Desktop Keely seems to be very close to being the best use of the AIR technology so far, LOL. Having downloaded the “application” immediately after Mr. Voerman kindly pointed me to this excellent use of the platform, I started to study […]

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What’s wrong with those people and their animals :) ?

by kai 17/07/2008

It seems some people I know and who are also more or less heavily involved in the Adobe community have a reasonably “different” relationship to (their) animals. Let’s start with Kay. Well known blogger, friend and co-worker of mine and a fellow Adobe Ambassador. Back in the days, she used to own a goat. Fair […]

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Aussies to invade New Zealand

by kai 15/07/2008

This is the funniest thing I’ve watched in the last year or so. The Gruen Transfer is an Australian TV show about advertising on ABC. They have a segment called “The Pitch” and agencies have to compete against each other to fulfil a somewhat “challenging” brief…. for example: A TV spot to advertise for an […]

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Good use of Flash Video: knickerpicker.com

by kai 25/03/2008

Don’t blame me for being sexist please, but KnickerPicker has a very well done showcase of using Flash/FlashVideo for online product recommendation and guided shopping. If you click through to the online dressing room you can actually control/command a video-based model to show off…well…yeah…lingerie – sorry. It’s just about the technology though, really! Why I […]

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Buzzword Preso

by kai 02/11/2007

I assume everyone has heard of Buzzword, right? Oh, you haven’t? Buzzword is an astonishingly good online text processor and Adobe has just recently bought Virtual Ubiquity, the people who have built Buzzword. Just the other day there was a highly interesting Connect presentation for Adobe User Group Managers on Buzzword that I’d love to […]

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