Jeff Milner

I’ve got the pre-travel jitters. As I’m packing stuff up I just know I’m going to forget something. Tomorrow I leave for Vancouver where I have a job working for a video game company for the week (I believe my official title is “Actor Wrangler”) and then after that I leave straight out of Vancouver for Malaysia. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ll be working for GXM Studio for six weeks, and then I’ll have another two weeks to do pretty much whatever I want. I really want to do some snorkeling as well check out some rain forests. I plan on taking lots of pictures and posting them here, so come back over the next 9 weeks for Vancouver / Malaysia updates.

This is a Milner family portrait from over 100 years ago. My grandpa is the youngest one, standing second from the right.

My brother and sister are both in love with Flickr.com. Today they just discovered that Flickr is giving Pro account holders two free invitations for Flickr Pro accounts. Gary gave me one of his invitations today and I spent the last little while uploading a few pictures. If you know anyone that’s had a Flickr Pro account for awhile now, I recommend hitting them up for a free Pro account.

The following photo is from a family reunion on July 1st, 2002.

Michael Hyatt has an excellent look at the lost art of note-taking. I have to admit I’m terrible at note taking, especially for classes which I find elementary or boring. Hyatt’s does make several good points, and if today hadn’t been my last day at school I’d probably put this into practice immediately.

Luckily for me, I’m just about to start a new job in Malaysia. (If you can call working for free a “job” – more of a volunteer experience). I’m excited for this opportunity and besides the great work experience, I’m going to make an effort to implement the “lost art of note-taking”.

Adobe, the company most famous for its Photoshop application announced this morning it’s plan to buy multimedia software company Macromedia! This is really cool news for those of us in the New Media industry.

“By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software – along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash – Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform.”

Check out these interesting Google Maps:

• Disneyland
• Bill Gates’ House
• Area 51
• The White House
• Las Vegas Strip
• Statue of Liberty
• Mount Saint Helens

(via Perljam.net)

I guess my backmasking page was mentioned on G4’s Attack of the Show on March 28th, 2005. I’ve never seen the show, but all the same, that’s cool!

I’m off to Malaysia next month and in preparation I went down to the health unit today and got a total of four shots – two in each arm. I’ve been avoiding my MMR booster shot for a few years now and I skipped out on the mandatory tetanus shot they give you in the 9th grade, but I got caught up on all of them in four foul stabs earlier today. The tetanus side is still throbbing slightly but it wasn’t nearly as painful as I had it built up to be. My biggest fear is that I will be part of the tiny fraction of people that have an adverse reaction to the vaccines. So far so good.

In the year 2014 all media will be automated and personalized. It will be delivered via Google and Amazon… or Googlezon.

Check out this video which runs about 8 minutes, or just read the transcript.

The Globe and Mail has an article about what a hotbed Vancouver is for the Video Game industry. I’m interested in working with a company mentioned in this article, hopefully I’ll be able to secure an internship there this summer.