Over the last few weeks I have been hanging out in a very new space. This new space involved a lot of non-Flash people who spoke about things like accessibility, web standards and all sorts of other topics that I am only starting to get to understand (microformats seems to be the new big thing). I have been learning so much about these new topics and really enjoyed talking to so many knowledgeable people about accessibility and usability.

So I am now on the other side of the ocean (Austin, Texas) at Flash Forward totally surrounded by Flash addicts. Apart from being totally knackered as I was wide awake at 3:30am local time. On the plus side – I did get to watch the sunrise over the city (I’m on the 13th floor) and have a morning swim in the pool on the roof. Ahhh the pleasure of jetlag!

I have been having a look around today and noticed something interesting from a computer point of view. Most people don’t have computers but out of those that do I would say they are more windows computers. This is quite different to the other events I have been to of late where I would say the majority was Mac.

I have still got to decide what I wanna see. Decisions, decisions… They have a really cool schedule tool to work out tracks and help make a decision. They also have “Celebrity Playlists” so you can see what your fav flasher is doing!

I am defiantly gonna catch the accessibility talk and the talk on swfObject is looking quite appealing as well.