This is an "off-topic warning" for next week. I'll be going to Los Angeles tomorrow for the start of SIGGRAPH 2005 on Sunday...a week of soaking myself in the bleeding edge of computer graphics. It's always a crazy week. Sometimes exhausting. Sometimes exhilarating. Always inspiring. For the last five or six years, it's been a place to recharge my creative batteries.

Even though Macromedia isn't a regular (they haven't been to the exhibit floor of SIGGRAPH since the launch of 3D in Shockwave, back in 2000), there are usually a couple of related presentations (I saw Josh Davis in 2003 and he remains one of my favorite conference speakers of all time). I had hoped that the MacrAdobe merge would be a little bit further along. Adobe is always a huge presence on the exhibition floor, so I was looking forward to seeing how their presentation might have shifted. Maybe there will still be some tidbits to glean. I'll be sure to let you know. I'm sure there will be lots of other stuff that you'll find interesting, so bear with me if not everything is Flash all the time..