Check it out! My first video tutorial. In this tutorial I create the following image while demonstrating rounded rectangles and tiled clones in Inkscape, as well as text, masks, pasting into masks, and some shortcuts in GIMP. It’s taken me a week to find the right way to compress this video to a reasonable size […]
Archives for June 2008
Friday visits and expressions
I can’t believe Saturday is almost over! Nan update On Friday Gran, Mum and I visited Nan (the grandma I mentioned before, who has cancer). I think we were expecting her to be awake, not feeling so great, possibly in bed, but capable of getting up and around. It was quite a shock when we […]
Sad day
Jane McGrath, wife of the cricketer Glenn McGrath and founder of the McGrath Foundation, passed away yesterday. After (and during) her battle with Breast Cancer, Jane McGrath became a spokeswoman for breast cancer awareness, and actively worked to provide support for women with Breast Cancer in remote areas, where help is not readily available. She […]
Do you want people to correct your mistakes?
I asked this question on Twitter and actually got several replies in the time it took me to get from home to uni! Call me lame, but I thought this was exciting. 😛 Would you prefer to be told about weird grammatical mistakes on your blog? E.g. using the wrong preposition or missing out a […]
Square peg in a round hole
We’ve been trained to change ourselves to make ourselves fit into the cars that drive us to the buildings where we work in the jobs that we study for so that we have the right skill sets. And we wonder every day if who we are is good enough to be there. It’s the dilemma […]
Multiple WordPress Blogs
So many multiple blog requests There seems to be a lot of people wanting to know how to run multiple WordPress blogs. Some people want multiple blogs with one admin area, so it’s more convenient to post. Some people want multiple authors, each with their own blog. Some people want multiple blogs using the same […]