Senele gave me a HUGE canvas for my birthday. Having him help me gesso it wasn't a really great idea, but we both enjoyed painting on it together!

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I was blown away by the simplicity of ScanLife.com. Create a free, personal account, download the software, and you can make your own clicky little barcodes, too!

I guess the social networking enthusiast might plaster his neighborhood with wall-sized printouts of these and some secret message.. I wonder what you could come up with?

Quick post about a recent painting.. This is the "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir done in a few of the styles of Marc Chagall.  In my in-progress photos below, you can see my studies: first a pencil sketch of the Renoir, next a pencil sketch of the Chagall characters of it, finally a pencil sketch outline on the canvas itself..

Can you recognize all the Renoir characters?  What about the Chagall ones from "Birthday?" Click the large thumb to get to the annotated Flickr page.

Ok, this is an unfair cross-post, but it's my cross-post, so comment where you will.. Either way, you'll have to wade through the copious collection of spam comments before I see it and approve...  What's this about captcha?

Here's what I posted on lullabot after listening to a great podcast:

Because all good projects need a name, I would start there: DDB ("Drupal DDB Builder").

Ok folks.. This didn't go down as planned, but you can sort of join Milo in a technological journey of live streaming during his baptism (in fact, the priest didn't confiscate my cell phone!). Flash player required (but you probably have it).

Above, there should be a video player, and you should see either Milo's baptism in action or a splash title screen. If you see something completely random, then the streaming/playing service has a hiccup (but you can easily visit the archives in the provided thumbnails at the end of the clip-- hopefully they're my shows and not another user's again!! :))

My Motorola Q9c on Sprint running Windows Mobile 6 freezes up intolerably, inoperably very frequently, and I have confirmed the same behavior with other friends' moto-Q's. If anyone has any insight into what's causing it and how to work around it, PLEASE let me know! I check for updates almost daily, the frequency of which is surpassed only by the number of times I restart the device in a day!!

My daily operations: I have two imap accounts sync'd at 15min intervals ea. I take a few pictures a week for photo-blogging.

Sometimes I get a Running Low on Memory error. (WHY??) And this with 9MB Device Storage and over 20MB RAM free.

My MSDN subscription wrote this:

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

And I would tend to agree that the performance of Vista could, continuing with the analogy, knock out an entire fleet of vehicles!  :D

I tried and tried to keep it low-key on the down-low but my favorite email service gmail refused to let me send to me and my small circle of friends this executable, so here it is on my website instead.

Attached to this post is a downloadable screensaver of a pugsley (sp) puppy dog licking the monitor from the inside of the computer. Adorable.  But I'd have kicked it outside if I caught a mangy mutt doing that to my 24" Dell flat panel!

I take no credit for the awesomeness that is this video clip; I just used MDM Zinc to wrap it in a .scr screensaver and .exe windows installer.  If you'd like it for the Mac, not sure I can help ya there... enjoy!

Well, I might be exposing my weakness as a designer by not immediately recognizing the ollowing font:

which is a title graphic for the intro flash to the Herrick Goldman Lighting Design website whose font I was asked to identify. It is used on the "inherited flash" intro for which I had no source .fla.

I took a screenshot with the free version of Gadwin Printscreen and saved it as a png, headed over to What the Font, stepped through the short wizard and was amazed at how simple the process and accurate the result was right off the bat. I included in my screenshot of the What the Font results screen (below) the text at the bottom with two suggested paths to get expert human help in the event that the right font was not automatically identified.

This week's TIME Magazine issue had an article "Man Makes Life" that had a line within that caught my attention:

...nobody doubts that it is our DNA that determines what we are ... [in the same way that] digital etchings on a CD determine the music you hear.

This struck a chord with what I read in the cover article in a recent past issue of SEED Magazine ("The Future of Science .. is Art?"). This article suggested that abstract ideas represented in concrete artwork (music, sculpture, drawings..) are more easily studied than the theoretical concepts and math themselves.