Apr
18
Created this logo the other day using inkscape. The idea is that the rose is a graphical representation of a haiku—a 3 lined poem in the format of 5-7-5 syllables usually about nature. The font used for “haiku” is called dreamer one found on urbanfonts.
haiku logo
haiku logo by leadiv is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Apr
4
I was messing with Photoshop this morning and came up with this image. It kind of reminds me of a movie or book poster. However, I could not think of any good captions. So if any of you fine creative people out there can think of something please leave a comment!
For those interested in how I came up with the image. Here are the steps I took:
1. Using the Select ->Color Range.. feature on PhotoShop I grabbed the highlighted area of the image.
2. Made a copy of the base image and applied the Difference filter to the image.
3. Making sure that the Highlight is the top most layer followed by the Difference and then the base image created the image.
The orginal photo can be view at twentysixcats’ flickr page.
Mar
18
I just installed a new plugin for wordpress called twitter tools that integrates twitter with wordpress. I just wanted to take it for a test drive. Does anyone else use twitter with their blog?
Feb
27
While reading xkcd.com I found an illusion to simple.wikipedia.org. Its just like wikipedia but it is put in simple sentences. So the next time you read an article in wikipedia and don’t have a clue as to what you just read then head on over to simple.wikipedia.org and see if you can find a simpler explaination.
Nov
17
I just stumbled across a new Web tool that I have been hoping someone would create for a while. It is a money management tool called Wesabe. Basically you hook up your bank account information to the site so that your transactions are pulled from your online banking. From there you are able to tag each transaction and see graphs as to how you are using your money. Another cool thing is that you are able to split transactions between tags and further detail how and where your money is going. I have been using this for just about a month now and really love it. It does not have a large amount of features on it but I do like just the basics. The graphs make it easier for me to view where my money is going. Of course when we talk about online bank information being thrown around concerns about how Wesabe uses that information comes to mind. Their privacy policy says they don’t use or give out your banking information other then displaying it on your own account. They use an https (its the internet with security) when veiwing your account. It seems that the risks of giving your banking information to Wesabe out weigh the reward of having a very handy online Quicken.
Oct
3
I just found out tonight that the new version of wordpress is much nicer on my sidekick. I was able to delete some spam comments and now I am writting this post while waiting to board my flight. Its amazing what you can do with phones these days. Now if I can just be able to do some programming on the sidekick I’ll be all set 
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Dec
23
For those of you at Dot Com who remember when the Head on commercials ran non stop; here is a great card I found while at Target.
I know repetition is a good way to reinforce learning but the makers of this commercial were on the verge of brain washing. It made on Unibrow’s Top 3 Annoying Commercial; see the full list here.
