Mad Skillz
22 Oct 2007
Seems like youngsters with talent greater than mine are getting younger and younger. DJ Sara and Ryusei would be younger than me if they combined their ages then doubled it.
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Defeating Prejudice or:
22 Oct 2007
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Need For Speed.
Need for Speed is a series I have always held in disdain, a chav racer only that wasn’t worth looking at versus arcade racer king Burnout or simulation champion Gran Turismo. I saw The Fast and the Furious, whilst entertaining it did little to contradict my view of shiny glowy night time racers like NFS:U, NFS:U2 and NFS:C. The first inkling I had that it might not just be a chav racer and something of a good arcade racer to have as a wing man to Burnout was 4 Color Rebellion‘s take on NFS:Carbon for Wii.
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Windows Vista is pretty good
11 Oct 2007
It seems like Vista has a bad rap these days. I really feel kinda sorry for Microsoft as they seem to be unable to do right. When they don’t have security, people whine about not having security. When they do, people whine about security features. When you only have XP, people whine that it’s old and is kinda tired. When they have XP and Vista, they whine on about how Microsoft shouldn’t have bothered as XP was good enough.
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Canvas 11 Oh yeah!
15 Sep 2007
Only had it a couple of hours and it really does feel so much better than 8. I got a really cheap upgrade offer for $100 US inc Acdsee Pro which is so so, but getting a package as good as Canvas for that price is a steal. I know it’s troubled package much like a lot of the Ex-Metacreations software, but it doesn’t stop it feeling like a stonking package.
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Widgetised The Sidebar
14 Sep 2007
Being based on an old theme I needed to get with the program and widgetise the sidebar. This gives me much better integration with DA and Flickr.
A Word About Web Browsers
10 Sep 2007
You may or may not know that I am a big fan of Opera for Windows. I find it personally to be the best browser on the system. I am free tech support to my parents, so after some nasty spyware problems I shifted them over to it. I work day to day for a large firm doing web and graphic design and Internet Explorer is always a pain. I would say however that IE7 combined with Maxthon 2 is a magic combination and really the only way you should use IE at all.
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One Reason I Might Buy a 360
10 Sep 2007
My lovely sister got me two Naruto games for my birthday. I’m really enjoying Naruto: Uzamaki Chronicles so the idea of a game this slick and close to the anime really appeals. If MS starts making hardware that is reliable I might get one.
Updated the Site Design
9 Sep 2007
Well after some humming and hawing I decided to retire some of the more dated design elements on the blog. I liked the zing, but it felt a bit primitive. I didn’t want to over Web 2.0 it with wet floors, so I took some inspiration from wallpapers and Korean MMORPG designs.
Enjoy 😀
Websites in Safari for Windows Look Bad
4 Jul 2007
Whilst it has it’s detractors I really like Cleartype, Microsoft’s Sub-Pixel Anti-Aliasing system. Personally I prefer my text to be sharp and readable in most applications. The exceptions being DTP, Illustration Apps or print previews where font accuracy is of the highest order. Shown left is a screen shot of Opera 9, Firefox 2, IE7 and Safari 3 Beta. Personally I like Opera the most, FF looks a bit heavy, IE b0rks on the ‘'’ and Safari well just looks awful.
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Alaska Woot!
26 May 2007
I am in very sunny and hot Alaska! it is freaking awesome. Jeremy and Iris are great hosts, Jeremy’s lovely parents (Loren & Linda) are putting me up. I went to UAF today and visited the Museum. They have a really beautiful place, that cost a lot, but I personally think is a great testament to the Alaskans.
Photos can be found here.