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Snow plus no flash makes for a very strange picture

Guns make you dumb. If at all possible, fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart

Michael Westen – Burn Notice

It’s been over a month since my last update. Work has been getting in the way…

The past month has been spent in a “study” phase for a development project that’s going to be the focus for half off our resources for the rest of the year. My time has been taken up in analysis and specifying requirements for changes to web applications and web services.

The Twitter widgets attracted my attention and made me decide to integrate them into this blog, prompting me to revisit and update the theme. So now, there are recent twitter updates in the sidebar of this site. There at least they’ll be updates several times a day – even if hearing only half of the conversation gets confusing

I know have 6 random examples of my Flickr photos appearing in the footer (they’ll change every time the page is refreshed). Really turned out to be simple – just a case of creating a badge using http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne.

After getting to the end of it the only bit that was really needed was the JavaScript in the code they provided. You can then change varying parameters to get what you actually want out – the obvious one being the number of images. If you change the parameter count in the script you can fetch back the number of pictures that you want (I chose 6 for the layout of this page).

If you need to change style then the images provided are in a div with a class of?? .flickr_badge_image that contains an image surrounded by a link. The ones on this page are simply floated left

http://www.graphicpush.com/99designs-bullshit-20

Critique of a site pretending to be contemporary that’s essentially commissioning spec work. Just don’t do it – designing for free or cheap just dimishes the profession and results in really bad work

Where is the horse and the rider…
Where is the horn that was blowing…
They have passed like rain on the mountains…
Like wind in the meadow…
The days have come down in the West…
Behind the hills into shadow…

Theoden suiting up for the Battle of Helm’s Deep in Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers

Decided to change the layout on this tumblelog. It’s now modelled on the “This is not a template” template but will gradually change as I mess around with fonts, colours and position

When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life.

Daniel Hillis on why we need to understand the Long Now

The same tree I posted earlier but with some Photoshopping. Basically duplicated the layer a couple of times and altered blend modes. Effect turned out pretty well

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain