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Monday, 24 November 2008

Senate passes same-sex laws

The Senate has passed changes to around 100 Commonwealth laws to remove discrimination against same-sex couples.

It's about fucking time.

[ABC News: Breaking Stories]
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INM releases Impressario PDF plug-in for Director 11

Integration New Media has released Impressario, an Xtra extension PDF utility for Adobe Director 11. The software allows users to integrate PDF files into Director movies, even behind other objects. Personalized proposals, data sheets, or custom presentations can be created from within Director, based on templates built in Acrobat or LiveCycle Designer. Original page layouts and fonts are preserve...

I find this interesting because I really like Director, but it has seemed dead in the water for some years. I used to teach it, but decisions were made that Flash had replaced it. I'm not a fan of Flash for many reasons. Director's main criticism used to be that it had a steep learning curve, and it's true that it is not an easy program, and that Flash is easy to get some quick results with, but I find Flash a very confusing and convoluted program still. Having said that, Director did have many perceived problems, one of which was the lack of PDF integration. But this was never a serious problem. I worked on a project in the early 90s which used an Xtra to print from PDF from wihin Director. The extensible nature of Director has always been a plus.

[MacNN | The Macintosh News Network]
11:09:32 PM

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Dictionary.com Word of the Day

guerdon:

reward or payment

[Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
10:36:40 PM

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Greens question closure of music academy

The Greens say the Federal Government still needs to answer significant questions about the closure of the Australian National Academy of Music.

Now here's a shocking admission; I'm a musician and a lecturer in music in a tertiary institution, and I didn't know we had a national academy of music!

[ABC News: Breaking Stories]
10:05:34 PM

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