While almost all of what I post about here involves techy matters like Linux or more creative subjects like graphics and photography, I am by profession a structural engineer. And like many engineers (structural and otherwise) I value my mechanical pencils.
I've tried all kinds both expensive and cheap, but I always keep coming back to [...]
Yesterday I was trying out a very useful sounding tip for adding a bookmarklet that would very quickly (in 1 sec or so) pop up a gmail compose window without all the contact and inbox stuff. Better yet, it would have all the auto-complete contact info as well so it's very useful if you want [...]
A little while ago, Heathenx and I decided to investigate the use of Blender for editing video. I've played around with Kino, Kdenlive, and Cinelerra among other things for basic video editing on Linux, none of them has worked for me as well as Blender. If there is one area where Linux currently falls short, [...]
Little did I know I was only 3 or 4 clicks away from a big increase in my productivity...
1. Open Google Reader.
2. Select "Digg" from my list of subscribed feeds on the left.
3. Click Feed Settings at the top.
4. Click "Unsubscribe".
It's surprising how much time I have gained for other things by doing that. Don't [...]
I am seriously thinking about getting a laptop. After briefly pricing out and looking at a Dell Mini 9 (or 12), I've gone back to wanting the Dell M1330. There has been no shortage of good reviews about it and it still has my eye. I do have a couple of lingering questions that I [...]
For quite a while now I've been harbouring a desire to embark on a longer term graphics project. I love diving into a variety of smaller projects, like the recent Lumiera logo entries, playing around with a gPodder logo and even more recently contributing a little of my play time to Crunchbang linux.
However I would like [...]
Based on the great constructive comments on my previous post from Thorsten and Troy about Lumiera's new logo concept, I thought I'd make another slight tweak to what I had already posted and came up with this:
I added (somewhat crudely) the additional film sprocket hole and used the mgOpen Cosmetica type with slighter tighter tracking (which [...]
Back in mid-November, I posted about Lumiera's logo contest over on the screencaster's blog. I made several entries, some of which are below:
The winning concept (which I really liked) was this one by anamii:
Now the aim of the contest was to select a "concept", so there is some ongoing discussion about tweaking the logo. While [...]
We spent a few days down near Buffalo (Cheektowaga to be exact) just prior to the new year to do a little swimming, resting and shopping. Now when I say shopping, that means my wife and her mother hunt down various bargoons (at least 80% off or fuhgeddaboutit) for several hours at a time. For [...]
The holiday season always seems to give me the much needed opportunity to take a lot of photographs. Mostly they're snapshots, but now and again you get something impressive.
Once again I implore any DSLR owners to go out and purchase a fixed length, fast 50mm lens. I bought a 50mm f1.8 lens for my [...]