leadiv

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.

Thats right folks I have upgraded my phone recently and now have T-Mobile’s new sidekick. This spiffy piece of technoloy allows me to IM several people at once, grab my email from 4 different accounts, listen to music, and take snapshots (1.3 giga-pixel but what can you expect its a cell phone!) all while surfing the web for random (and useless) facts. But thats not all, I can extend it by taking images and uploading them to flickr pretty much in real time; use ssh to log into servers to move files and edit information; access your home computer for files; and to actually make phone calls without going through T-Mobile — which is good since I only have a data plan — using Skype (:-). All this for the low low price of $250. Yeah I know thats a fairly steep price but for what you can do — not to mention the fact that the data plan is one of the cheapest plans out — with the sidekick I think it can easily make up for this price.
Right now I am trying to figure out how to get it so that I can edit my website and various blogs that I own.

This is a reposting from theborregos.org — 9 April 2007

There I was biting my nails like I do in the middle of an intense thriller movie. Looking intently at the screen hoping and praying everything turns out okay. Of course I was not watching the latest thriller, I was just trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 on an old IBM ThinkPad. The past day or so I have been trying to get the installation CD to work to no avail.

I have at least learned a few things in the process though. Like for one don’t ever fully wipe out the partition until you know for sure the installation will work. You never know when a CD/DVD drive is going to bit the dust. A better idea is to partition off a section and try installing Ubuntu along side Windows or whatever other OS you currently have before blowing the whole hard dive away just to find out that halfway through the install process you get an unresolvable error. Better to have one OS then none.

The second thing–which I think is the issue I ran into–is if you are installing it on an older computer you should really take into an account that it has older hardware and not the latest and greatest. When I went to burn the ISO to the CD I just used the default speed on my burner (maximum). This as it turns out did not really jive with the ThinkPad’s CD/DVD drive’s speed. So after many failed installations and thoughts of just chucking the laptop out my second floor apartment and telling my brother it was stolen by intergalactic computer hacking gnomes. I tried writing the CD at x20 instead of the maximum (whatever that might be on my CD/DVD burner). So far it seems to be working albeit slow and steady.

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.