I’m heading off for a whirlwind tour of Seoul and Hong Kong talking about design and development in Flash Lite. In Korea I’ll be giving a presentation on Advanced Flash Lite Development (pretty much the same presentation that I gave in Anaheim) . For Macromedia MAX, Greater China (Hong Kong) I’m presenting twice, the first session is on visual and interaction design for Flash Lite, and the second will be a more in-depth presentation on my NYC traffic cam viewer.

Having never been to Asia before, I am really looking forward to it. I am however a bit nervous at the same time. I’ve never been to a place where I have no linguistic intuition on written or spoken language. One of the travel guides was suggesting taking the subway into the city from the airport. Considering that I barely get where I need to go on the New York City subway where I do speak the language, I can’t imagine trying to get along not understanding the signs or the conductor voice (thank goodness for taxis and western-style hotels). :)

The dread though comes from the prospect of a 13 hour flight to Seoul! Probably by the time I get off the plane I won’t be able to speak English either. ;) See you all again on Friday. I’m still working on the update to the pirate maps game, but hopefully I will get it posted this week.