Hay folks, as you may have noticed I’ve been kinda quiet on here and DA. Well work has been kinda busy. I’ve managed to upgrade to the latest wordpress and tinker about with bits, but really my creative thirst was being full quenched with work so I didn’t have the inclination to blog or fart around with graphics. Things are getting back to a bit more normal as Easter is slowing things down some what. Thanks to my good friend Jason I am now reading Death Note, it’s tense interesting stuff and well worth a read. Ta ta for now.
Return of The Polygon!
As you may or may not know I really like the G-Shock Polygon. Well guess what I just received one through the post. I think I just prefer the black one a bit more than this, but I like this one very much and considering I got it for a quarter of the UK street price I am a happy man.
It’s all very tech and comes with a thick multi-language manual. Luckily I just had to set my city to LON and all was fine.
Please stop double-spacing after full stops!
Urgh, I have to remove by hand so many second spaces from word documents, in order for the hidden extra space to not be encoded into a junk character in HTML. So many people are taught when learning to type that you should use a double space after a sentence. This was correct in the past when text was manually typeset and typewriters were the standard. Even latter when DOS based Word Processors were the norm this was correct. Why not now? you may ask, simple we no longer use monospace fonts, proportional fonts are the standard and old school hacks around the inadequacies of monospace spaces are just that HACKS. So unless you are using a monospace font, please for the love of all that is good in the world STOP DOUBLE SPACING AFTER FULL STOPS.
Thank You.
I guess I still like the Demo Scene
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.
