I’ve ordered the prints and will have them sometime near the end of next week. Coolness!
Print preorders are open
Print preorders are up in the store. No guarantees I didn’t break half a billion things in the process. Went with Google Checkout because Paypal made signup a pain in the tail.
Chatting with the waitress
Pointless technological annoyances
I work in the website support department of a big huge company who I’m not going to name here, and I’ve got a degree in software engineering, so I’m well-versed in the financial expenses inherent in software testing and development.
Still, it does nothing but piss me off when a cool marketing gimmick like the Target Red Hot Summer Sweepstakes looks like it’s going to be all-browser friendly (flash interface, cool effects) until you try to do something useful like take advantage of the “free music” offer and then find out that hey, since I’m not running Internet Explorer on Windows, I’m not invited to play.
I know there are some folks who hate the little “Best Viewed With” messages that adorn many websites, but frankly, I’d rather be told at the beginning that “hey, this cool thing? NOT YOURS.” than get halfway in and find out. (I’d also rather have a “feedback” link right under it.) I mean, dammit, if a company’s going to be lazy-ass and not write code that everyone can use, they should at least be courteous enough to tell us.
Fun fact of the day:
Based on my web stats for July, around 80% of the humans who hit my site are on Internet Explorer on Windows. (18% of you brave souls are on the IE 7 beta!), around 7% are on Firefox on Windows, around 7% are on Firefox on Mac, and 6% are on Safari on Mac. My mystery Netscape 3 user has finally given up the ghost.
Making Notes
Upgrade complete!
Well, it took the removal of at least 35 screws and most of the bottom half of my (already out-of-warranty) iBook Dread Pirate Roberts, but we replaced the original 40GB drive with a 120, and boy is she sweet. I’d already bumped her to 1.12 GB of RAM a few months ago, so she was cooking in the RAM department already. The only thing holding her back has been a distinct lack of space to use as a scratch disk — complicated and compounded by the fact that both Photoshop and Mac OS X will happily use the entire freaking drive as extra RAM for pageouts if they need to.
But now? Wow, my images actually open quickly, which means I can do things like finish the Nuclear weather rock print. It’s sweeeeet.
When you don’t have the right tools, drawing can be a really painful experience. But once you do, the inspiration flows like water.
Fan art part III: Jamie was inspired
This should be the last piece of fan art, for now, gleefully provided by ideaphile Jamie, who apparently found himself inspired by the last news post.
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sorry for the lateness and confusion – just got the laptop up and running again when squeak alerted me to the problems.