I’m a vampire!

October 23, 2007 | Filed Under Panda, Random | Leave a Comment 

I heard about this on CableGirl’s blog and had to take the test. Funnily enough if you ever do me wrong I would “Act like everything is fine, but eventually get your revenge when you feel like it”, ah yes… But the result is that I’m a vampire! Who plays well with Werewolves…

You Are A Vampire

You have a real thirst for bliss, and you consider yourself a true hedonist. And you’re not afraid to walk alone in life, if it means getting what you truly crave. You truly enjoy entrancing people. Not to mention the ensuing pleasures of the flesh. Your tastes have been called decadent and bizarre. You usually give in to your temptations, no matter how primalYour greatest power: Your flawless ability to seduce and charm Your greatest weakness: Human flesh You play well with: Werewolves

Freebies

October 17, 2007 | Filed Under Design, Loving it!, Resources | Leave a Comment 

I’ve encountered a lot of free resources on the web recently, and here’s a list of some handy bits and pieces:

Textures
Texture King

Fonts
dafont

Photoshop brushes, textures and fonts
BittBox

Vectors
Arsenal
YouWorkForThem - blog

Saving energy on Blog Action Day

October 16, 2007 | Filed Under Loving it!, Panda, Resources | Comments Off 

To play my part in Blog Action Day, albeit a little late, I’d like to put across some energy saving tips. And as it turns out - money saving tips too. Win, win if ever I saw it.

1. Mobile phone chargers - plug them out when you’re not using them. I was interested to learn that these pesky (but very important) gadgets can use up to 20% of the energy they would use when in use.
2. Switch your lights off when you leave the room! Now I have been told by several people that it takes more energy to switch off a light than to leave it on… But I’d go for switching them off
3. Getting energy efficient light bulbs is also a good idea.
4. Now, I love a nice cup of tea (as much, if not more than the next person) but only boil as much as I need. Boiling a full kettle when you only need 1 cup is wasting energy (I’m not going to go into one of my water-wasting rants, as being from Ireland - where it rains what seems like all the time, I tend to get funny looks and the straight jackets come out… But I think that we should conserve water where possible!)
5. And here’s my favourite energy saving tip - don’t drive on a short journey, get on your bike. Rain or shine, it’s great to cycle to work. (Once you have a decent rain jacket with a toggled hood and rain proof trousers, it doesn’t really matter if it rains.) There is also the added advantage of whizzing by frustrated drivers and getting where you need to go in no time. (Yes, I’m that smug cyclist who infuriates you so much that you drive as close to the kerb as possible to foil my lovely cycle. I may or may not be the angry cyclist who *accidentally* kicks your car when you pull out in front of me without checking what’s going on!)

And here are some handy links that I’ve accumulated during my research for Blog Action Day:

Power of one - energy efficiency for Ireland

No Impact Man

Water is precious, let’s conserve it (it seems I’m not the only Irish person worried about water conservation!)

Race Against Waste (read what Cable Girl had to say on the topic on her Blog Action Day post)

Dublin Tranportation Office Walk & Cycle planner (this is a great resource, but they seem to forget some contraflow bicycle lanes sometimes, but overall it’s great)

And brilliantly, here are some great iniatiatives put forward by the Irish government to encourage us to be more environmentally friendly:

Plastic bag tax (yes, now we all bring our own!)

Electronic waste recycling charge, this is fantastic, I bought a new washing machine a couple of months ago and the company that I bought my new one from took away my old one and recycled it. Yay!

Pixelmator - update

October 13, 2007 | Filed Under Design, Resources, Technology | Leave a Comment 

Pixelmator is now available, only $59. It certainly looks pretty - and it’s a cost effective alternative to Photoshop. I’m going to download a trial version and see what it’s like.

Photoshop Tutorials

October 13, 2007 | Filed Under Design, Loving it! | Leave a Comment 

Here’s a great list of advanced Photoshop tutorials.

60 Advanced Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Photo manipulatio, text effects, vector effects, digital colouring, digital painting - all organised

I need to get out more…

August 22, 2007 | Filed Under Random | Leave a Comment 

World 66, you enter in the countries that you’ve visited and it generates this funky map:

Visited 10 countries, this only = 4%. Well the world’s a big place, I’ve got to work on the percentages!

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