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A fantastic holiday

My trip to LA was one of the best holidays I’ve ever had. The car rental people, Alamo were fantastic and deserve a special mention!

Our Chevrolet Malibu seemed to be running fine, but when the engine warning light came on we took it back to see if they could fix it. There were no questions asked, no extra charges, no blame implied – they just told us to go and pick up a new car. This turned out to be a Pontiac Grand Am with 4 miles on the clock. Fantastic service if you ask me!

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Beware the Flasher

I’m due on an advanced Flash course in early June, which should be fun and show me the path to making more use of the package into the bargain. Look out for the addition of pointless pages on the site called something like “The Lab” (kudos to flammablejam.com!) or “The Playground” where I’ll get to do pointless motion effect Flash clips in the name of experimentation!

Seriously, though – Flash 5 is the best reason yet to take Flash as seriously as I’ve taken PHP in the last year.

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Reboot – the aftermath!

It’s been an interesting week, checking out all of the sites re-designed for May 1st. I did notice several sites that had either boycotted the event or missed the deadline altogether.

Of the ones that had made it, it was good to see some fresh new looks out there. And if it was the intention of Reboot to freshen up the web, if only a little, then it was a job well done!

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