PunchCardZombies.com

Punch Card Zombies is my new upcoming web series. It's about Ned Zombie, a white collar zombie who works for Zombeet Inc., and his co-workers who also happen to be the living dead. Ned is in charge of advertising, where he tries to win over zombie customers into the realm of vegetarianism with his catch phrase "Beets are like Brains, but Better!" Unfortunately, most of the zombie population doesn't want to give up their carnivorous lifestyle, but Ned and his co-workers are determined to change the world. Check out www.PunchCardZombies.com for new updates and news about how far the series is progressing.

Adobe Certified Associate of Flash

Yesterday I finally decided to take my certification of exam to become an associate of Adobe Flash.

However, to get to this point it was quite the ordeal. Not because I had to learn the software, I've been using it for six versions now so I wasn't worried about that, but because testing centers in my area are scarce. In fact, there's one in all of northwest Georgia apparently.

Since the exam is work-related my company allowed me to schedule it on my lunch break and to reserve a conference room. The day of the exam, the test center called me and said they're going to let me take it when I get to my home PC and that I can log-in from there. Later that night, I paid for the exam, installed all the plug-ins and tried to take the exam. After about three hours of errors, tech support and back and forth on telephone calls I decided to try it another day. Finally, the next day I was able to go to a learning center in Atlanta to take the exam on a computer, which I'm pretty sure is at least a decade old and ran very slowly, but at least I finally got to take the exam.

To become Adobe Certified was more of a personal goal to show that not only have I been using Flash for 8 years and am qualified for my position, but just as proof that I know it well enough for Adobe to recognize it. Maybe in the future I'll try the Adobe Certified Expert exam, but for now I'm just happy to finally have this exam completed.