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Bad Friday

May 31st, 2008

Today was just one of those days.
I got a mysterious email from a client. All it said was tell sion the bad news. This worried me. I waited for a follow up email but none came. What bad news? Argh!
Last night our beloved neighbours plopped a ton of stuff into the hallway that connects 3 [...]

NetFlix Rentals and Disappointment

May 30th, 2008

The remake of Day of the Dead starring Mena Suvari and Vingh Rhames didn’t impress me.Watching the movie you could tell that all they we thinking about was “Let’s turbocharge those zombies”.Failing yet again to grasp what is so effective about authentic zombies in the first place: they’re slow,yeah, but they add up fast [...]

NetFlix Rental: Shameless Season 1, Disc 1

May 26th, 2008

I’ve tried watching this show on Sundance but it’s just too hard to follow a show that seems to air at 3am. So NetFlix to the rescue.I was disappointed that disc one contains only 4 episodes but it was great to see how the whole Fiona and Steve thing got going.
I’d seen episodes from [...]

Ohh Pen Tool

May 23rd, 2008

Last night I spent a pathetic 2 hours trying to follow a simple tutorial from SitePoint on using the pen tool to make these really deceptively simple looking curved shapes.Simple? Not hardly. But I will get it.I hope.One day.