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Inkscape

Helen is going to have her 40th birthday party this year, and we have decided have a party to celebrate at a local golf club. I have been designing the invite. We needed a good picture for the front of the card. I used a picture that Marshall drew for Helen for her 21st birthday. First I scanned it then I used Inkscape an opensource vector graphics drawing package t trace round all the bits and colour it in. It was surprisingly easy to do once I got started and had figured out how to do all the bits I needed.

January 31st, 2010 | Category: Miscellany, Technology | Leave a comment

Kitchen

We are having our Kitchen replaced, the ground floor redecorated, and oak flooring laid throughout. They started on the 11 January an the kitchen was in in a week, now we are on the second phase the painting. It is going to take a couple of weeks, our painter is very thorough and is doing a great quality job, and pays attention to the details. As of today we have a very white ceiling that is now waiting for the lights to be installed, and almond white walls have had one coat in the Kitchen/diner/lounge.

I have included a couple of pictures in this blog entry but you can see quite a few more on flickr if you follow the link, it uses a set so as I add more they will automatically be included. http://www.flickr.com/photos/treecreeper/tags/kitchen/show/

January 30th, 2010 | Category: Miscellany | Leave a comment

Advert for chrome browser in the Daily Telegraph

Things are hotting up. After the IE hot fix and the German and French government advice not to use IE. Google takes the chance to gather some momentum for Chrome.

January 23rd, 2010 | Category: Technology | Leave a comment

Avatar (****)

The film is set in the future where us earthlings are seeking new frontiers in space. The planet that the creatures live on contains a rare and expensive substance called unobtainium. The humans are evil and want to get rid of the locals from an area of the planet important to the locals but which contains the substance. The humans send in Avatars of the locals by some strange technology, and try to infiltrate them, one of the Avatars go native and the whole thing kicks off.

I have read on the internet that the film seems to be very simalr to the Pocahontas (See http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2010/01/03/james-camerons-pocahontas-avatar/)  but who cares it is a good story.

I was rather sceptical that the film would not be all it was cracked up to be. There was a lot of hype and a lot of technology, so I kind of figured it would be like all those other films that are all flash but no substance.

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.

January 21st, 2010 | Category: Film review | Leave a comment