MarbleMice.com

Yep, I have been at it again, gone is my very amature-ish picture of an old computer and in is a new theme for wordpress I found by this person. Looks a whole lot cleaner. The site is now fluid or variable width. That is as you resize the web browser the site changes shape. Plus side is code examples can have longer lines (within reason) but the downside is short entries will not look great. Oh and I suppose it breaks the rule in news papers where lots of text on one line is hard to read – hence news papers use columns… Of course with the web you can just resize your browser to your preferred width.

I am certainly no artist but occasionally I try to raise my skill level in this discipline. I like to do little doodles on paper but have never really found a program that lets me do it as nicely as I can with a pencil. I have a cheap graphics tablet and the software package that came with that is called ArtRage. This is one of those natural drawing programs that simulates chalk, paint, pencils and so on with a variety of different canvases. Drawing doodles on with it tends, for me, to result in very random jagged edges compared with a proper pencil and paper drawing. It is not the packages fault more a case of my lack of skill with a graphics tablet and possibly because it was the cheapest one on the market. I have however found a trick that lets me produce reasonable doodles on a computer without lots of frustration. Read the rest of this entry »

I figure on average I read about one book a month, sometimes I get through more sometimes I have a dry spell and only don’t read anything for a couple of months. I was cycling in to work the other day and thinking, well that means I only read about 12 books a year. Given I hope to live for another say 50 years that means I will read only about 600 books in my life time. I have thought about this a couple of times – heck I might even have blogged about it – but a quick check could not find it.

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