I grew up with my Amiga and I still have fond memories. I always loved watching Demos, not game demos, but Demo Scene demos. Classics like State of the Art by Spaceballs and 242 by Fairlight gave me insight into computer art. They used to a way of seeing cutting edge realtime effects, in all reality that is no longer the case and in a way I like that even more. The concept is now king. I really like Conspiracy’s work. Here is a classic 64kb demo by them(I’d recommend running the real thing):
Want an alternative to IE that isn’t Firefox?
I use Opera I have done for some time, I just like the have it your way interface. It does crash now and then, but mostly due to the Netscape plugin interface (meh). I tried Firefox when it was Firebird and Pheonix, but the whole thing felt clunky and like a big botch together. I’m not saying don’t try it, but there are alternatives.
Opera my browser of choice is great and used on many strange and wonderful devices such as the Wii. However if you install IE7 and then install Maxthon 2.0 Beta you may be highly impressed like I was how snappy and modern it all feels. If I couldn’t use Opera or I must use an IE I use Maxthon 2.
Shiny and Virtuous
As you may or may not know I like to recycle, but I’m also rather lazy. My kitchen is often overflowing with paper, plastic, metal and glass waiting for me to take it to the local recycle bins. I like to do it all in a one’r now and then to save on shifting backwards and forwards with small amounts.
The BMW designed Ecopod E1 seems like the answer, unfortunately it is only available in the states.
Upgraded to 2.0.6
As always it was easy as pie to upgrade to the latest wordpress. I urge you to do the same for the safety of your blog.
Update: Now 2.0.7
New Year New Avatar
The last time I created an avatar theme for myself I was interested photography and fractals. So I wanted an avatar that would scale and reflect my current interests. So the the Avatar shown to the left was born. It features the white border of a Polaroid photo, the HUD of camera and my personal favorite little fluffy clouds. :D
Well its a new year and time for a new avatar. This one is more design orientated and was made in Adobe Illustrator rather than Photoshop. My most fav’d deviation on Deviantart.com is an vector made avatar set, so I guess I needed a more relevant avatar. It comprises of an abstract C at 45 Degrees and N at 135 Degrees interlocking. The background is a ripple out, similar to an art style I haven’t used since High School. It is usually colour animated from blue to green to brown/orange to blue. Some forums don’t allow such animation so they will see like above the static blue version.
The Awfullness of CS3 Icons
You may or may not be aware that Adobe has released a beta of Photoshop CS3, mainly I think to prove to those Intel Mac owners that there will be X86 versions on their way. There have been many posts of the subject so I won’t bore you with the details, I’ll just state my opinion and offer some appropriate links.
I started off liking them for, mmm, around 5 minutes untill I realised how essentially broken they are. The CS/CS2 icons are fairly broken, but examples like Icon Masks and the comedic Their Toolbar make the point quite well. BeckleyWorks makes a good arguement, unfortunatly he also links to the Icon Masks image, which is equally true in the pre-CS style squares. I’m happy with abstract, but really icons should be icons not minature versions of the finder label highlights.
