SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

Yeah, thats right I am coming back at you with two new plugins. Well one plugin you can download now, and another that you will be able to download shortly.

First off I am releasing my Flickr Comments plugin, that you can see in action on my Plex post, or on my Choose your own adventure post. If you want to know more, go to the FlickrComments project page.

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Cocoa Dev Central is really an amazing source for clear, concise and well designed examples of how to use Objective-C. I can’t stress enough how wonderful this resource is. Go check it out!

Code named, lower_my_frustration.

The lowdown

I have a love hate relationship with the Beast, Photoshop. It is abolutely essential for my work and it is the source of a lion share of my frustrations.

I have tried the other offerings and they just don’t do what I want, which is a very targeted sub-set of Photoshops funcionality.

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Update: Do to lack of support for DVI on my ATI video card, I have had to dump Ubuntu and go back to using the MacOS. This isn’t something I am extremely happy about, but it works so I can’t complain too loudly. I will have pictures and a write up of what I needed to make everything work soon.

So I like to have side projects to occupy my time with; usually these projects are required to have nothing to do with web programming, and if I can swing it, nothing to do with Computers in general.

I like to build stuff, so I usually try to have something cooking in that arena. My current building side project is to build an altar for our home. This is a long, involved process and as such it is very much on-going.

My current short term project was/is to build a digital media center, to replace my aging EyeHome. I have an aging G4 tower lying around the house so I thought I would see how far I could push the hardware. Surprisingly I can push it pretty far.

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