Lewis Black has a routine where he scoffs at the optimism of each new year filled with thoughts of “this is going to be the year!” asking where the poor soul is sobbing in the corner mourning the ending year saying things like “NO!, no! *this* was the year, it can’t be over already!”

While I am looking forward to the things to come in 2006, 2005 has been an amazing year. 2006 has some big shoes to fill. In 2005 I celebrated my tenth anniversary with Ray (the best meal I ever had EVER was our anniversary dinner), celebrated my 30th birthday, and made many new friends. I also finally got treatment for ADD which enabled me to get my life back in order.

Professionally, I have gotten the job I have really wanted, and have been very fortunate in my personal Flash development, winning a TV, and getting to travel to Asia and speak at several conferences. I know nothing is more obnoxious than people gushing about their success so I’ll stop now, but 2005 pretty much started off with a bang and kept going.

And the icing on the cake is that I actually started a new blog and kept blogging. Thanks for reading it!

My Friday was made far less merry by a co-worker forwarding me a Cnet article on Microsoft’s plans to alter the active content experience after all. I seriously checked to see if it were just a joke before posting. There are few companies that can cast Microsoft as the good guy, but Eolas is going for it.

Macromedia has a page for the active content workaround which is inactive right now, but I guess if this pans out, it will come back. Luckily I think most of the Flash HTML templates do take care of the issue. But still, don’t be messing with my plugins! For a summary of the Eolas workarounds, here is a pretty good blog post on it.