¡ArtPad es neato!
http://artpad.art.com is cool. It has some neat features like a neat paint bucket... It kinda reminds me of Mac paint from back in the day... So I’ve been playing w/ it... Just wish I could zoom. I’ve added a couple digital drawings to my art blog. It occurred to me while I was making this post that I should also add my illustrations for ambidextrous, so look for those and the icon work for
FCS XML write up
Wow. A friend just sent me a link to this great article. If you’ve ever wondered what it is I do at work all day and why I bother, read the article. Hodgett’s sounds like he’s channelling my former boss David Black, who is the architect of our XML format. All that backwards compatibility and new stuff in from 5.1.2 is my work! Hooray! :D
Anyhow... it is nice when someone gets it.
Back to normal...
Over Feb 10-11 I went on a ski trip with Stefan and his lab. BUT on the way there, somehow, my purse fell out of the car! (We switched seats a few times so it isn’t like it fell out a window or anything like that.)
Anyhow, my purse found its way to some very nice people who helped me get it back with everything minus the cash, my camera, and a little cute zipper pull.
But alas! I just got that
Painting update
Newly posted painting (painted mid-January but with all the fuss over the broken camera, I am just now posting this one) entitled “Sunset over Yolo.”
We went skiing over New Years, and on the way back there was this gorgeous sunset over Yolo County. I experienced it again this last weekend on the way back from another fantastic ski trip and realized I’d never posted this painting!!!
See it
Panasonic rocks
I was very sad just after new years when I dropped my wonderful camera and it stopped working. I sent it in to the Panasonic Repair center in Ohio, but I wasn’t expecting any miracles since I was beyond the 90 day warrantee period.
Nonetheless, I sent in a copy of my purchase receipt and everything as it says to do on their website and was anxiously awaiting some communication from them about