It’s great what you can do with an hour to kill and a bit of open source kit. I’ve been wanting to get a little better with my image editing skills for a while now so took an hour out to have a little play. First I downloaded and installed the gimp and inkscape. I then set to work out finding the basics and after viewing a few video tutorials from youtube I managed to cut, trace and tweak an image of yours truelly (my fat head!).

just thought id post a quick link to my latest project for uni its over @ http://paulcarey.co.uk/happy its one half of a group project the other half being a java based backend to handle bookings etc, ill try post a few screen shots at a later date. the site isn’t entirely polished but its not really meant for real use as you might tell from the heavy use of iframes!

well latest word is that its true IE at long last (hurray) is getting closer to being standards compliant. The latest IE 8 beta it seams his passed the acid 2 test see for yourself some milestone gee its only taken m$ 10 years and multiple releases to get there! Anyway the future may be looking better for web developers, however theres still half the world out there with broken browsers and its going to take a bit more then a working beta version to fix them.

more info over at ala

technorati is a cool way to search and discover other blogs I use it to index my blog take a look at my Technorati Profile

After downloading the latest manufacture release of vista sp1, thinking at long last a cure to all my problems, low and behold my machine becomes a brick!

I walked out on Tuesday night, leaving sp1 to do its thing came back a few hours later and my laptop was bricked, tried the vista CD repair option the menu said about, nada nothing, so back to Ubuntu to do a backup of my stuff and 16 hours later I’ve got a fresh install of vista with sp1 at least installed.

All this because I couldn’t get a scanner to work and wanted a USB hotfix that after a request, Microsoft wouldn’t give me (without spending hours on the phone with there tack support) but was in sp1! why oh why!

It seams there was something on my already buggy vista install that sp1 just didn’t like at all. After doing a clean install, only would sp1 install without problem. The moral of the story beware of sp1 installs, ensure you do a full backup of your important stuff first before risking it and that you are comfortable with doing fresh installs if all goes wrong. The full general download release may be better but I wouldn’t count on it being by much!

hear goes.. a blog, why not seams to be the in thing? who knows may make me famous (not that I want to be)

so its official im being sucked in myspace, facebook and now a blog whats happening to me?