Archive for August, 2003
Hodge family History
Sunday, August 31st, 2003Hodge Family History. Gotta love this internet thing. Now I can trace my family history back to Fife, Scotland circa 1750. Thanks for the pointers, Mum!
I didn't fully realise that Liam is a 6th generation Australian, nor the concentration of the "Hodge" family name in Fife, Scotland -- and plus the connection to [...]
Nick in Mumbai
Tuesday, August 26th, 2003Bomb blasts near the Gateway of India - I was standing at this position in September 2002. Along with two Indian colleagues, we ate at the Taj Mahal hotel right across from this landmark.
Night shot of the Gateway to India
Hotel Taj Mahal in the rear of the photo
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Lost Words
Sunday, August 17th, 2003Compendium of Lost Words I've had just about enough of your garrulous blateration, you clod!
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August 6th
Meet David Melville Hodge. My Great-Great-Grandfather
First Australian PM at Hiroshima? For Shame.
Turing’s Cathedral
MINI Lovers of the World Unite
Tuesday, August 12th, 2003Kurt Foss, Editor at PlanetPDF is a fellow MINI owner and cult member. Yes, we are a cult! He's presently in Australia and hired a MINI to drive the famous Victorian Great Ocean Road. Go Kurt!
Speaking of MINI cults, Liam met another fellow MINI lover, Catriona Rowntree last night! And Steve from Typefi, developers [...]
Travelling with a Laptop
Wednesday, August 6th, 2003This was published at Taking the high-tech road. Thanks to Wayne Cosshall
Essentials
Buy a laptop that has international warranty, or where the vendor is an international vendor. Finding "Fred-in-the-Shed" laptop manufacturers in India is probably minimal. I only travel with Dell, and where required for the job, Apple laptops. This gives you [...]
InDesign 2.0: Text and the Transparency Flattener
Sunday, August 3rd, 2003Visit the new InDesign Prepress Section: Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques
Why is my text printed from InDesign (a) fat (b) outlined (c) fuzzy (d) or all of the above?
This article describes the Adobe Support Database Text Is Rasterized When You Print to a RIP from InDesign (2.0 on Windows or Mac OS)
In this example, you [...]
XML Stuff
Sunday, August 3rd, 2003Further to Adobe Enterprise XML Strategy Stuff, Adobe XML Architecture Specification. Note this is subject to change.
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Warping Text using Illustrator CS3
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Adobe Forums
Saturday, August 2nd, 2003Hello visitors from adobeforums.com. How to print in greyscale; including placed EPS and PDF: InDesign 2.0: Printing Output Choices and Flattener Tricks (including force Greyscale export!)
Today marks my 5th year at Adobe Systems. On this day, 5 years ago, I was in San Jose getting the "good oil" on Adobe products with other Application [...]
Neil Finn Lyrics
Friday, August 1st, 2003You will need Adobe Reader 6.0 (or a full version of Acrobat 6.0) for this bit of Friday fun: Random Neil Finn Lyric
This is something I tricked up for OpenPublish 2003 using the new SOAP calls from Javascript in Acrobat 6.0. It uses the Random Neil Finn Lyric Server web service.
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