Where oh where?
February wasn’t a good month for this blog. Not only did I manage a paltry one post but I also broke my Blogroll script. Ultimately, not going well.
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Felt a bit arty
Feeling a bit arty this evening I did a T-Shirt design based on the excellent “LiveMarks” icon from Mozilla Firefox. I’m quite a fan of XML feeds and the potential for the technology’s use in different forms of data syndication (Microsoft SharePoint, I’m calling you out – again).
As a T-Shirt I’ll admit it is, well, rather nerdy. It would mean wandering around wearing the icon from a computer program on my chest. But it is a very cool icon. To be honest, I think it fits into a similar vein to the too-cool-for-words set of designs that Panic now sell.Minium
Some time ago I was avidly following development of an icon set called Minium by the supremely talented Sascha Hhne. He’s a busy man though so it took an age to finish, his blog didn’t get updated and I stopped looking.Picasa
Picasa – Google‘s image organisation and photo retouching program for Windows – reached version 2.0 a while ago and now has Gmail integration. This, combined with the incredibly useful (and simple) photo retouching tools put it in the running for ’my new favourite Windows program’.
The above picture is a ‘Before/After’ comparison of Picasa’s “I’m feeling lucky” retouching tool and then slightly increasing the colour temperature to restore skin tones. For what was initially a quick and cheap shot taken in a club (5th Avenue in Manchester), the result is suddenly far more respectable.Today, I have mostly been purchasing...
… CDs. In fact, I seem to have developed a dependence on buying new CDs. My iPod has a playlist, y’see, which contains all the music that I’ve bought in the last two weeks. When that list empties I get an overpowering urge to buy more to fill it up again (rather than, say, change the SmartPlaylist to contain three weeks music rather than two…).38one.com | Denis Radenkovic's portfolio
Denis Radenkovic did the logo designs for the upcoming
Media2005 conference in London. He also created an illustration for the header for the <a href="http://atmedia2005.co.uk" title="Media 2005">@Media 2005 website</a>. Is it just me that finds the Godzilla sized Zeldman looming over London’s skyline more than a little unnerving?I'm an anal bastard...
The Conservative party in the UK have launched a toolbar for Internet Explorer. Although they have no chance of getting my vote, I figured I’d test out their ability to respond to anal questions anyway…
While I’m sure that no Conservative politician has any input into the creation of the “Conservatives.com toolbar”, I’m curious to know if there will be versions produced for other web browser software, such as Mozilla’s wonderful Firefox browser.</p>
Back home for Easter
I’m back home in Cambridge for the long Easter weekend. Thanks to our countries Christian heritage, we get given Good Friday and Easter Monday off work. This is a good thing, since Jo keeps telling me I’m stressed, and she tends to be right about such things. In response, I will doing absolutely nothing tomorrow. Apart from possibly introducing my mother to Picasa, just because it’s so cool.
WordPress dilemma/switch
This blog, as some may have noted, runs not off the insanely popular Wordpress blogging engine, but a piece of software called b2Evolution.