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We have a new saying in my office now, it’s “Flash Loser!”, or for extra effect, “Flash Loser! Flash Loser!” .

It came about when one of the guys at work spent about a week crafting up a rather nifty looking Flash movie (Homestar Runner’s Strong Bad or Unit9), on his awesome new Mac (definitely one of the biggest screens I’ve ever seen 24″ goodness…) and sent it to me so I could open it and write some dodgy action script. I’ve never dealt with Flash, or Action Script before, and I’d like not to have to do it again, but I managed to knock up the required fix and published it to the web.

As you might know, working on a Mac with Macintosh specific fonts and then changing over to a Windows machine (without) those phones usually plays havoc with the text and screen layout, indeed it did in this situtation. After a while spent fixing the layout to make it look a bit more respectable I over heard said Mac user (we’ll call him Macman) telling my boss why the process was taking so long. I couldn’t help but burst out laughing, several times.

Boss: Why isn’t that splash page done yet?

Macman: Uh, font layouts, Mac -> Windows funniness, blargh..klasdfhasdf

Boss: I don’t get it, what’s the actual issue?

Macman: Well, It was originally made and laid out nicely on a Mac with Mac specific fonts and then when transferred over to Windows it doesn’t look at all right anymore.

Macman: In fact my Mac is shouting, “Flash Loser”, and Shannons Windows machine is shouting “Flash Loser” back.

Boss: Flash… Loser?

Macman: Yes, “Flash Loser! Flash Loser!”

Now, I could be wrong, but seeing an otherwise mature conversation between two grown men degrade to the point where two computers are shouting at each other (picture my workmate a hand on each side of his head waving furiously whilst shouting “Flash Loser” and you might understand exactly why it is that I’m laughing. In fact, I’m still laughing…

Anyway, this has now become the catch phrase in the office now, over the past couple of days, at least over in my corner (wid’ my krew…), and I’m loving it.

Flash… Loser!

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