So today I embedded my first instance of the “Cool Wall” from CoolIris, now re-packaged as “LiveShare”. I’ve known about CoolIris for some time – it’s a great plugin for showcasing your photos. Until now, I’d always used it in the context of browsing. You go to a page that has images, press the “CoolIris” [...]

I’ve had a fascination with space from a very early age, thanks to a healthy appetite for reading and TV/Movie shows that featured space (Doctor Who, Thunderbirds, Terrahawks, Star Wars, etc. etc.). Two of my earliest serious memories of space were (1) a space pop-up book with moving galaxies, a pop-up telescope, and many other [...]

No, it’s not some kind of prescription medication addiction – I’m talking graphics tablet! Thanks to GE’s Long Service Award, I treated myself to a Wacom Bamboo Fun Graphics Tablet. Why did I buy one? Well, I’ve had one before, and used it mainly for sketching out diagrams (rather than spend my day in Visio-Land), [...]