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No, I’m not becoming a Mets fan. My friends Anthony and Heather came up from South Jersey, and I’ll admit I was curious about Shea.

I’ve got a ton of different shots of Lo Duca’s rant following his ejection, but am too lazy to post.

Check out ZDNet’s report on a privacy study including Google

or this post by Wired.

Derek Jeter

Originally uploaded by mandalatv.

It’s pretty cool what you can do with a telephoto lens

Call me slow, but this one eluded me for a little bit, as I couldn’t find a how-to in the Flex help documentation regarding publishing source code. It’s actually just as easy as pushing the Publish Application Source button–just keep in mind that it’ll rely on your primary MXML file as the index page of the source code.

Mmmm, otoro. You won’t find this in the local Japanese restaurant

I thought there’d be a way to inherently modify chart labels in Flex while basing them on the chart’s values. There doesn’t seem to be such a built-in property, however, you can easily use the labelFunction method. In the example below (right-click to view source), I’m setting a labelFunction of changeLabel on a LinearAxis tag. It calls a switch statement to determine what to relabel the value. Note: The relabeled values are all even numbers because the major ticks on the chart are even.

Ever try resetting a RadioButtonGroup in Flex? I didn’t find it so clear… Unselected radiobuttongroups are set to “null”, but I tried setting all of the radio buttons selected = “false” to start. When that didn’t work, I then tried setting the radiobuttongroup.selectedValue = “null”.

The solution is to set radiobuttongroup.selection = null; in ActionScript. Sample and source code below.

So you’ve published your Flex application that accesses local XML, but when you try to run it outside of your Flex Builder folder, you might get a Flash Player Debugger error #2148. I ran into this problem while on a tight deadline, and am reposting here to get the word out.

To fix this, you need:

1. to right/control click your Flex Project folder in the Navigator
2. Select properties
3. Choose Flex Compiler in the popup window
4. Add “-use-network=false” under Additional compiler arguments

Hopefully, this’ll save someone some time…

As an early Christmas present (since I never want anything around that time anyway), Daphyn sent me off to see a Moon for the Misbegotten with Kevin Spacey, Eva Best, and Colm Meaney (Eva Best. Wow. No wonder she’s up for a Tony. Of course, it never hurts to have the always excellent Spacey and Meaney in your corner).

Moon opened right around the time I went to see Forbidden Broadway, which is an off-Broadway spoof of just how touristy, family-friendly, and Disney-afied Broadway has become. How true it is. Despite this, I knew Forbidden Broadway wouldn’t touch the classic revival of Eugene O’Neill.
I pretty much fell in love with O’Neill’s tragic work when I last visited the Brooks Atkinson Theatre for 1999′s The Iceman Cometh with Spacey. It was around that time that I knew I wanted to live up here.
Thinking back to that–and leaving work in NYC to go to a Broadway show got me wondering–why don’t any of my NYC friends go to Broadway shows? Granted, the $100+ ticket isn’t that cheap, but it’s such a great experience on one’s doorstep (when, of course, something other than a tourist trap like The Lion King is playing).