As most of you know I am from the Boston area, huge fan of the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots, pretty much all things Boston. Well I have been contemplating leaving Beantown for some time now and think I am getting closer to making the move.

Now of course this is still in its research stage, but I am seriously considering it. Right now I am mainly looking in Colorado, pretty much since I went out and visited some friends last Fall. Its just a great community, lots of outdoor activities and breathtaking views. It will of course be a challenge to root for the Boston teams especially when a few of the places I have been considering are next door to Rockies stadium.. haha.

This whole move is to test the concept that a freelancer can in fact live anywhere in the world as long as they have internet, which is something I do believe to be the case. I sort of confirmed this when I was responding to business emails on the beaches of the South Caribbean a few months back.

So as you can imagine I would be leaving some things behind, those of course being my family and most of my friends. Though as luck would have it I have a few friends out in Denver/Colorado and hey, Vegas is closer too.

There you have it, a bit of a “random” post as it has nothing to do with programming, but for those interested, in my free time I continue to do the research oh and save lots of money to make a cross-country move even possible.

Finally you may be asking “Why Colorado?”, which my response will always be, Why not? If you have no crucial reason to stay in the same location, why do it?

As usual a web site offer is not tested before going live. I actually called the hosting company “PixelMedia” at 10:10 and they assured me it would be back up. Who launches a project and doesn’t test or even try to determine the load their site will get? As a fellow web professional (web developer) I take extreme issue with this growing trend.

This of course wasn’t the first high profile site that offered a great savings, some of you may remember the Sparkfun “Free Day” back in January. The slight difference with Sparkfun was they did order new servers, just still must not have tested it properly.

Its of course very possible for a large web presence in a matter of minutes to be successful, just look at Adobe when they debuted CS5, Amazon whenever they run any sort of a promotion and of course news agencies when tragedy and breaking news hits.

Those examples show it is possible, so if you don’t test your work, don’t post it.. and above all, don’t give people false hope. Now all Mass Save has done is pissed off Massachusetts residents and brought bad press to their agency.

Update: I would like to mention Mass Save finally did come up for us at 11:15 EST, it seems they moved the site to a new location and got things online (slowly).

Soon after the whole iPhone blow to the Flash community was felt, the VP of Engineering for Android wrote an guest post on Adobe’s blog showing love for AIR on Android.

Here is an excerpt, read the full post.

Google is happy to be partnering with Adobe to bring the full web, great applications, and developer choice to the Android platform. Our engineering teams have been working closely to bring both AIR and Flash Player to Google’s mobile operating system and devices. The Android platform is enjoying spectacular adoption, and we expect our work with Adobe will help that growth continue.

We also look forward to all the innovative content and applications created for Android and Flash. Join us at Google I/O in May to learn more about our work together with Adobe to open up the world of Flash on mobile devices.”

– Andy Rubin, Google VP of Engineering, Android

This couldn’t be more perfect for the Flash community. Not only will you be able to develop for the Android platform soon enough its pretty safe to assume Google is okay with it.

It will be interesting to see if this changed Apple’s views at all, but then again, does it really matter?