Almost two years ago I got some paint and a canvas for my birthday, but I never got around doing something with it. Until today:
I think it came out a bit weird, but I’m happy with it for a first (and quick) effort.
I had a design for our business card lying around for more than a year. There was a nice offer from VistaPrint so I thought I’d give it a go:
It’s quite ok, but I think having the blue printed as a single color, instead of using CMYK would give it a better look. Also I would really like to put the illustration we have on our website on the back, to make it a bit less formal.
Anyway, I don’t really need business cards, so probably the next edition will not be printed soon 🙂
I thought to give Linux another try on the desktop. It has been eight years since the last try and things probably have advanced enough to warent a better experience. After some fiddling with splitting the existing ntfs partition and a failed installation (screen went to black and it froze) I now have Ubuntu installed. Now the only thing that’s not working by default is my Dual-Screen Matrox P650 Graphic card…. so i’m still stuck with a single screen. The driver provided by Matrox is not working out of the box, so I’ll have to dive into forums, etc. to get it fixed, I hope.
What I never expected a few months ago: I actually like twitter. Although it seems like an overflow of non-interesting information at first sight, it’s actually pretty useful. For me it’s especially keeping up to date with new developments without having to read through tons of lengthy blog posts. For myself I try to keep a schedule of at least one twit a day. That should not be to difficult to stick to. Finally I’ve added the feed to this blog (bottom right).
I gave twitter another chance. I created an accounts months ago, but never got past the first message. I reconsidered it’s usage yesterday. Why?
1: I like the Facebook status updates and a lot of people seem to update them from twitter, so why wouldn’t I like twitter as well?
2: At MovingLabs we build software for the web, how can we build the best if we don’t understand what’s going on?
3: I was (re)reading a discussion about the usage of twitter for marketing purposes. It seems to fit in perfectly.
So after my first day I think I’m going to persist to use it for a while. I especially like the concept that you can follow someone without the need for some bidirectional (friendship) relation.