Archive for November, 2008
San Francisco: Day Seven
Friday, November 21st, 2008Today I rented a lovely little Nissan Versa and drove to San Jose to view the Winchester Mystery House. This house seems very creepy on TV shows, but having now toured it and learning more about Sarah Winchester, I think the mystery of the house has dissipated. It’s a very lovely place — full of [...]
San Francisco: Day Six
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Today I left Union Square (noisy and sort of smelly) to stay in a hotel near Fishermans’ Wharf (touristy, but warm and less creepy). The new bed is bigger than my apartment (king size) and it’s fabulous. There are four pillows! I had breakfast at the Pergamino Cafe before walking up a gigantic hill to [...]
Adobe MAX: Day Three
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Today’s sessions and labs were: Flash CS4 Professional for InDesign Usershosted by Chris Converse Building Desktop Applications with Dreamweaver CS4 and Adobe AIRhosted by Justin Nemeth Common Mistakes Print Designers Make on the Webhosted by Stephanie Sullivan Fireworks Mock-Up Labhosted by Jim Babbage It was a pretty quiet day, overall. There were no group programs [...]
Adobe MAX: Day Two
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Today’s general session was hosted by Adobe’s Tim Buntel and Ben Forta. I unfortunately didn’t grab any video, but it was also very clever. They acted out a scenario that would involve a design team, a development team, and a deployment team to create one product with a seamless workflow. It was great to see [...]


