10 posts from January 2009

Wow, I want one.

Yesterday at Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing.

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Here's a new deviantion from me :)  It's my first collage piece. I followed a photoshop tutorial from smashingmagazine, and added some great stock images from the stock exchange.  Let me know what you think! If you have a dA account, leave comments there as well!

:)

Vintage Collage by =Jiglette on deviantART

I'm working on a website where I can keep all my designs, sketches, and comics in one place. Not sure if it will be a new blog, but it will run on Wordpress since it's really flexible.  So we'll wait and see about that.

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I'm watching the CNN coverage with Facebook live online at my job. How I LOVE technology! It's great to see all the Facebook statuses as well.  I posted a couple of screenshot statuses on my tumblr.  It's all about hope, no matter who you are, or where you're from.

I just hope people realize the new president IS only human, and if he doesn't do as all people with high hopes expect of him, they'll consider him a failure.  Let's hope things will be ok and well...see what happens!

A very exciting day indeed. I'm very proud.

:)

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So if you check out my recent tumblr posts, I've been successful in getting my wacom tablet working on my linux "purple pc" desktop, as well as finding out my canon scanner works right away!  This makes me really happy as I have a fully functional desktop doing al the things I want it to do within Linux and Open Source software.  They've made so many things integrated with new distributions that it really makes the old days of compiling software re-compiling kernels a thing of the past (well for me anyway, it's been a long ways since Redhat 3, my first shot at linux in college). I've always had luck with ubuntu or Ubuntu based distros, so check it out.  :)

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I'm loving Linux Mint 6. I've decided to try it since I've heard alot of good reviews... it's pretty much Ubuntu with a nice theme and a few other bits and pieces installed by default.  I was able to get a proper Nvidia driver for my graphics card, and get Compiz Fuzion to work (how wicked!) easily. I also had it enable "fortunes", which prints out a quote every time you open terminal. I love stuff like this to make your work (or play in my case) just a tiny bit fun.  :D

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This is a great little plugin that I've just implemented on this site... it adds Twitter avatars in the comments. If the user does not have twitter, it see if they have a gravatar.  If not, a default image is set. :) Very cool!

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/08/twitter-avatars-in-comments-wordpress-plugin/

If you don't have a gravatar, get one, it's fun and free.  :)

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YES!!!!! Finally!

http://picasa.google.com/mac/

http://picasa.google.com/linux/

Can't wait to go home and try it :) I loved Picasa on Windows, and wish they had it for Mac/Linux. I'll post about what I think of it.  (I hate iPhoto!)

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I could have used this when I moved to England last year!

xkcd - A Webcomic - Converting to Metric.

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So, I don't have many resolutions this year. Just one main one, which is to lose another stone in weight - 14 pounds.  At my heaviest (you can see some of my photos in the gallery), I was pretty pudgy.  All my life when I lost/gained weight, you couldn't tell that much when I gained or lost 10 lbs. But ya, at my heaviest, I was 30 lbs over my normal weight.  Terrible huh??  Ah well, it took me a over a year and very gradually I lost 17 pounds.  Now my goal is to lose 15 more, and keep toned.  I will go down to a comfortable weight/BI that is good for me and not some statistic for my height.  I've just learned to eat just enough food, and just cook at home. I think that is key. I'm not following a certain diet or restricting myself to any extreme, just excercising normally and eating right. I'm trying to get back into running a mile 4-5 times a week.  I bought myself proper running shoes and everything :P
Lets hope I don't hurt my knee like I did when I was 24!

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I also bought proper  sneakers for when I play volleyball.

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I also want to stick to a couple of projects I have in mind. I won't mention much for now, but we'll see if I can accomplish it.

:)

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Here's just something I did while playing in Adobe Illustrator. :) I hope everyone has a lovely 2009!

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