Goals I only realised last night that just telling myself to do my essay isn’t working. I need to make smaller, achievable goals to actually be productive and be able to measure my success. Previous goal: “Write Proteorhodopsin essay.” Todays goal: “Read at least 3 papers and write at least 2 pages of essay.” That […]
Design
The Art of Favicons
From the title one might think that I have something insightful to say about the art of making a favicon (the little shortcut icon that shows up in your browser’s address bar, on tabs and in bookmark lists). Really, I just want to say two things. First thing about favicons They’re damn cool: they make […]
18 Image editors and creators for Mac OS X
I found myself wanting to make a quick sketch to get an idea out of my mind, while I got on with something else. I could have gone and got my Moleskine, but it’s nearly full and I didn’t want to start a new project in there. I could have opened up GIMP, but it’s […]
Wired’s Water Photo Contest
Wired.com is having a water photo contest. Sometimes Wired manages to promote some excellent and unique photographs; sometimes they rehash ones that have already been seen. 😉 I’ve entered my photograph Floating in colour. I also have some very cool photos of birds and ducks in water, which I might enter if I have the […]
There is nothing new under the sun
Design ripping is a big topic in some circles. There’s even a whole blog, You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice, dedicated to it. There’s probably other blogs about it that I haven’t seen. I read YTWWN because, initially, I thought it was well researched. However, it turns out there’s lots of authors and only a few […]
New theme: Clean Shave
I’ve finally implemented my new blog and photoblog themes! I’m not as excited as I could be because there are some bugs, mostly in IE (typical!), that I wasn’t able to check from my Mac. Now I’ve used Browsershots and hopefully I’ll be able to fix up the problems. Have a look at the […]
