To each their own, but I’m done with Flickr. Over the next few days I’ll be moving my artwork and photos into my Picasa Web Albums. It’s free, images are viewable at their original size and I don’t need a bloody yahoo email account.
UPDATE: Our Flickr account is now closed. Photos and images have been moved to http://picasaweb.google.com/thayerwilliams and I will update thumbnails throughout the site accordingly.
I’ve added some dwm artwork to site. So far it’s just stuff that I’ve advertised elsewhere, but I’m still weeding through half-finished projects to see if there’s anything else worth publishing. I’m also working on a couple new minimalist SLiM themes (non-dwm) that should be ready soon.
OK so, we didn’t watch iota one of Lost. In fact we have managed to avoid almost all the details, except that people were stranded somewhere, there is (was?) someone named Libby, and hobbit Meriadoc Brandybuck was in it. CBC radio recently had guest speakers speculating about (*shudder*) the last episode ever and when the programme host reluctantly announced that he has never seen the show, it was as if the air was sucked out of the broadcast room. There was this awkward silence and I can only imagine the look he received.. However now that the last episode has aired and speculation is over, can we all have our news back? The past few weeks have been dominated by ‘how will it end”? — ‘what does it all mean?” and now apparently there is some serious debriefing to do. I get it, I do.
I understand the feeling of latching onto something good, and the whole collective sharing thing but this phenomena often falls within a long string of “must watch” TV. It even happens with commercials! We all know our way around YouTube and can get that warm fuzzy sharing with just a few clicks. But nothing says pariah (or castaway) louder than ‘sorry, I don’t have cable TV’, oh and ordering a simple ‘large coffee’ from Starbucks.
If you’re looking for your next addiction, check out this British must see. Run don’t walk to your nearest library for all the seasons! Midsomer Murders
Last week I bit the bullet and went back to antialiased font rendering after struggling to bring to Dina goodness to my Windows environment at work. Since then I’ve been hunting for a rock-solid typeface that renders well on every platform, at any size.
That’s when I discovered the Droid font family, from Google and Ascender. I’m probably the last person on earth to learn about it, but I still have to say that Droid is one of the most beautiful typefaces I’ve ever used; be it serif, sans or mono. Best of all, it’s free! It is now the preferred font for this site and has become the default font at work and home.
(images courtesy of Wikipedia)
By now it’s pretty obvious that we no longer have the free time we once enjoyed and dedicated to cinderwick. Career ambitions, grad ceremonies, continuing education, grandchildren, pets and honey do’s…there’s just not enough time in one day to do it all.
To complicate matters, we recently upgraded our old, grainy and speaker-blown 27″ CRT TV to a beautiful 40″ Samsung LCD TV, matching blu-ray player and Bose HTIB.
I realize that diehards may scoff at those specs, but for us it’s been like watching our favourite movies for the first time. Rob Roy, Children of Men, Shawshank Redemption, Master & Commander, Jeremiah Johnson, Shaun of the Dead…did I mention there’s just not enough time in one day?
Where am I going with this? Well, this will probably be the largest post here for a long while. From now on I’ll be using the blog more as a progress report for the various projects I’m working on…sort of like twitter, but with no less bullshit.
To get the ball rolling, you can now find my dotfiles, vimbrant themes, dwm preferences and more at http://git.cinderwick.ca.
Over the next couple of days I’ll be making some structural changes to cinderwick and dusting off some unreleased projects. Stay tuned…