Halloween
A prancin' jacko-lantern man for Halloween.
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9:07 AM
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Pirates and Boots
Pirates who talk in German are clearly even better than regular pirates. However even the mighty Edward Teach probably never wore shiny red boots.
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9:51 PM
John
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Cat and LukeHere's a homage to Cat and Girl, which I did as a card for my sister (Cat) and her bloke (Luke).
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7:32 PM
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MoveOk, copied the files across to my new lovely (paid for) webhost. Theoretically I have PHP access there, which could allow for some fun. In the meantime there are probably broken links, as I have probably failed to copy some files over... This blog has now moved to http://www.littlespikeyland.com/blog/.
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6:21 PM
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Lord of my own DomainSeeing as my email account has been playing up lately (taking days to receive some messages) I though I'd take the plunge and get my own domain name and a proper hosting service. So with any luck I'll have transferred everything over in the next week or two.
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7:53 PM
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Dreaming of PiesFirst proper drawing since finishing the MSc. This was for a birthday card, which seems to be a good motivator for actually making me get something done. Used a combination of ink and watercolour. Also the first real use of my newly acquired brushpen - brilliant for thick lines/areas, but the fact the ink is not waterproof got a bit annoying. Need to experiment some more methinks.
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8:42 PM
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Now with added RSSI upgraded to the latest version of Thingamablog and so now I have a working (as in valid) RSS feed. So for those of you using Firefox can now "live bookmark" this blog. Having a lazy couple of days to recover from running around for the last week. One drawing on the way, another one planned (in my head at least).
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3:46 PM
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Checkmail ManualHere's a low-tech/high-tech solution for checking your mail under OS X remotely, using the standard Mail program in OS X: It's low-tech in that it's just a basic shell-script, but high-tech in that I suspect it will only be useful to people who are happy with the commandline and ssh. To use it save the script to your mac and make it executable ( Most of the work is done using the Example output:
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5:56 PM
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Water ColourA water colour girl, using india ink (which is waterproof) for the lines, all done on bristol board. See those supplies I consumer whored for haven't gone to waste. Definately pays to get quality supplies - the colours are really strong and cover well. Watercolours are also a bit more malleable after the fact (compared with inks), so hopefully it'll make life easier later on.
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2:13 PM
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Slight spring clean
Re-did the main drawings page today. I hacked together a little shell-script to do the work of creating thumbnails and generating the html. Should make life a bit simpler. I guess next stop would be to fully automate the process so I just drop the image into the directory and it gets resized and added to the main page (and uploaded). Hmmm.
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7:54 PM
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