Thanks, y’all for all the great book recommendations! I am excited to get started. As soon as I finish the book I am reading now, then I will check out my library for one on my list. Speaking of lists, I made a page of all the suggestions you gave me. It’s called “Booklist” at the top, far right of the list of links. If you have any other suggestions, let me know. :-) Now in other news… Mrs. Garrison…
So a few websites I want to tell you about. Since getting rid of our cell phones, we have been trying to find a good alternative for long-distance phone calls. We first tried Skype, which is fairly inexpensive for calling phone numbers. At first, we liked it but we soon found that people had trouble hearing us. Also, there was a slight annoying lag time, and it wasn’t very convenient for us to always have to be at our computer…
Joanna sent me this BBC article today that said that the Helvetica font is celebrating its 50th birthday! Helvetica, for those of you who don’t know, is very similar to Arial font and is used everywhere as a basic, generic font. It’s the default font of Quark and Macs in general (I think). I’m a big fan – there are lots of variations of Helvetica (bold, black, thin, condensed, extended) that give it variety but yet keep the piece looking…
The other night I couldn’t sleep, so I played around a little with pictures and different Photoshop filters. Here are some of the ones I came up with (click to make bigger): And for a new profile picture, I cropped a picture I took a few months ago and tried different filters. I ended up using the middle one for Blogger/Facebook/Xanga/etc. I kinda wanted to make variations of the middle one with different colors Warhol style, but I…
So I was excited to read this article about Adobe’s new Creative Suite 3 (CS3), due to come out within the next few months. This is the first release since Adobe bought Macromedia, and I have been interested to see how Adobe would incorporate Dreamweaver, Flash, etc. into its suites. Adobe will be releasing three different suites, tailored to serve three different types of clientèle: print/publication design, web design, and video design/editing. I am very happy to see that the…