Flash

Either:

a) I am having trouble shifting the mental gears to the midway point between graphics and code that Flash & Actionscript require.

or

b) The control interface in Flash MX is crap, and impossible to give coherent directions in.

You tell me, but seeing as I'm following the instructions in the book erxactly, and it's just not working, I'm coming down heavily on option (b).

Cartographical Goodness

bluedevi spent some time, years ago, making my original scrawled continental map into a very very pretty map of the Old Lands, the main arena of events in my campaign world. Many things have changed since then, though, and a new map was needed. This arrived in today's post, the oringal artist having spent months on the new version. It is gorgeous. There is nothing to compare to seeing something of your own depicted by someone else, and I've been very lucky in that regard, having inannajones drawing portraits, and bluedevi's cartography and calligraphy.

I'll take a picture of it for you all to see when I can look at it without gloating.