Categories photo

Photo Tip #66

It’s pretty simple and obvious, but I’ve honestly never seen it written down anywhere, so… Most people taking snapshots or amateur photos — where the subject matter is a person or people — will frame the picture so that the heads are in the vertical center of the photo. It’s Continue Reading

Categories pixel

sleep-posing cat

If I disturb Pixel while she’s sleeping–sleeping very deeply– she’ll drowsily lift her head while I scratch behind her ears. But she doesn’t quite wake up, because when I walk away, and look back, she’s fallen asleep again, with her head still stuck up in the air.

Categories family

no more fun

I no longer have a ten foot long hole in my wall. So I got that going for me. (Plumbing that doesn’t leak: Good. Cat locked in bathroom for 3 days: Bad. Seeing the debris from the last time the wall was opened lazily dumped in the space behind the Continue Reading

Categories photo

Why iPhoto stops working

Of all the boneheaded… iPhoto — my photo management software — isn’t allowing me to drag more than one photo at a time. But I need to drag all my recent photos to a new folder where i can sift through them. What does the problem turn out to be, Continue Reading

Categories rant

Bad Website Design Tip #134

If you’re gonna put a form on your web page that checks to see what people are entering in the fields, and won’t let them move on to the next field unless they complete the first one properly, then… …give the user feedback as to what they’re doing wrong so Continue Reading

Categories health

Stupid sick.

It’s stupid. There’s nothing about being sick that isn’t ridiculous or stupid. I get struck out of nowhere with a condition abnormal for someone in my age and fitness, and the doctor’s can find any cause. And it can’t just be a run of the mill thing. It’s got to Continue Reading

Categories design

Work: What did I charge?

I need to be more efficient about tracking what I estimated a job to cost. Whenever possible, I generate a “real” estimate with Quickbooks (QB), so it’s all in there, waiting for billing. And for smaller, “promo jobs”, I’ve taking to creating an empty folder inside the job folder, with Continue Reading

Categories news

Buying Freedom?

Interesting proposition from Wikipedia founder J. Wales, about what could you do with $100,000,000, in terms of freeing copyrights, with a teaser of the possibility of it becoming reality: I would like to gather from the community some examples of works you would like to see made free, works that Continue Reading