The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to …
Photoshop Tutorial: Add texture to flat image
This will be a short Photoshop tutorial that will explain how you can make an image richer by adding a texture to it.We start with this image that can be found on the internet:Then we straighten and flip it in Photoshop using Image > Image Rotation options:There is a more or less flat backdrop to …
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Unwritten Thoughts
Last night I finished some work on a website I’ve been designing and watched a video lecture before tucking into bed. It was pretty late by then, around half past three, and I was very sleepy. But I think I got a small idea for a blog post (after a long time) and wanted to …
I hate the word ‘Genius’
Just dug up an old favourite quote: I don’t like this word ‘genius’, especially when they call me that. There are two reasons for that. The first is the burden of expectation. Geniuses are supposed to perform no matter what. They are not common men like us weighed down by chance, by fault, by stupidity …
Engineer Jokes
First off, if you've arrived here searching for engineer jokes, you might be disappointed. There is no engineer joke in this post. So anyway, I don’t get this deal with the newfound arrogance of engineering I see around these days. Facebook’s full of it. There’s a horde of half-geeky slash semi-witty slash pure roundabout humour …