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Adobe Illustrator is one of my favourite software applications. It's a package for creating vector graphics and is extremely good at it. It's superb for logos and scalable graphics and generates images that can be used in almost any manner imaginable, at virtually any size. As a designer—albeit only a part-ti… Read more »
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I know software. I've been acquainted with it for a long time. Admittedly, I haven't been around long enough to have been into software in the really early days of computing, but I have been around long enough to know it pretty well. What started, as with most my age, in the 80s with machines from the likes o… Read more »
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As has previously been discussed, coming up with blog topics can at times be somewhat difficult. Sometimes inspiration will jump up and grab you, while other times it remains stubbornly out of reach. It's very rare, therefore, that the blog itself should serve as inspiration, but that's more or less how it ha… Read more »
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We might open our homes unto them; we might gift them with food, often on request; we may lavish attention upon them; but a cat will always remain ownerless. It is not a pet that we choose to keep. It is a creature of free will that chooses to be kept. While a dog might instinctively come when called, a cat w… Read more »
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I struggle to imagine a more irritating application than Microsoft PowerPoint. I've lost count of the occasions I've had to sit through presentations created in this dreaded application. It must be a kind of torture but I've yet to find a human rights lawyer that would hear my case. Don't get me wrong; I'm n… Read more »
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It comes to something when the topic I've chosen to write about is none other than 'writer's block'. The blogs I've written recently have been increasingly difficult to write due to an apparent shortage of ideas. If I were writing fiction—which I frequently do in my spare time—it wouldn't be an issue. I quite… Read more »
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The funny thing about ambition is how it doesn't always seem to fit the person. My own ambitions, realistic as they probably aren't, include fronting a successful rock band and authoring a published novel, to name just a couple. Sometimes this surprises people—particularly the first one. I suppose I'm a fairl… Read more »
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Lately it seems like I spend most of my time waiting for something. And it's no big consolation that I'm not alone. Recently published statistics show, for example, that we spend an average of 653 hours of our lives waiting for buses or trains and no less than seven years waiting just to fall asleep! (It's wo… Read more »
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It's a question a friend of mine has been asking a lot as a simple turn of phrase lately, but, as ever, her words have inspired thought. Wikipedia's online dictionary, the aptly named Wiktionary, defines hope as "the belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen". It proffers the concept… Read more »
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My friend suggested earlier the idea of a bus paradox: that being that you will never arrive at the time you want to arrive at if you take the bus. It's a theory we were discussing after a frankly bizarre set of coincidences in my own journeys to work in the morning in the last few weeks. Having worked at th… Read more »