Archive for October, 2003
Druids, Spinal Tap and Grace Hopper
Saturday, October 25th, 2003More weekend reading: The Skeptics Dictionary. For instance, were the Druids in Celtic times purely the nerds of a highly warrior-oriented community? Any why when I think druids, I make a mental connection to Spinal Tap?
Interestingly, Grace Hopper is accredited with the quote "It is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get [...]
MINI Birthday
Friday, October 24th, 2003This day a year ago, we became the proud owners of a MINI Cooper S. Happy birthday, MINI!
Russell Brown has a new tip called "Dr Browns Image Processor" available at: Russell Brown. Useful with the new revision of Photoshop CS, it is a take on my Moonshine: Distilling PDF into JPEG using Scripting
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Trapping
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 The *best* resource I've read happens to be the InDesign 2.0 (and CS) manuals on trapping.
The whole central idea of trapping is that it corrects for physical errors (such as misregistration of plates) inherit in the printing process. This is either the Printing press itself, or the inks and substrates that are being [...]
Wikipedia
Sunday, October 19th, 2003OK, you know I am a bit of a swot, and like things more on the cerebral side of life. Therefore, this is the find of the weekend: Wikipedia.
If you prefer the lighter side of life, H2G2 might be more entertaining.
For instance, H2G2 on Neil Finn:
Neil Finn continues to write, perform and collaborate, and [...]
WindowsXP Reinstall
Tuesday, October 14th, 2003What a few days. My Windows XP install on the Dell has been unstable for a few months; and I thought I had managed to recover XP enough to have a stable platform. Unfortunately, on Friday night it finally exploded. Also two Outlook .pst files went west (thank goodness for backups!). Completely erased the hard [...]
