December 24, 2009
December 16, 2009
December 12, 2009
Playing around with INKSCAPE
Inkscape is freeware. I stumbled upon it last nite while looking for a good program for converting bitmap to vector images. I’m not sure if Inkscape can do this yet, but I found that it’s pretty impressive with text. So here’s a Merry Christmas message after playing around for a night. I’m sure competent masters could do much better with this great program. But here’s my first attempt.
December 7, 2009
Back to Church…
I was getting that dull feeling that comes if I’ve been away from Mass for too long and going to St. Michael’s Cathedral in downtown Toronto to receive the Eucharist helped to make me feel spiritually well again (so much for all those materialists, skeptics and New Age pundits who say there’s nothing to organized religion…).
But going to church is not always entirely uplifting. There have been irritating things about some churchgoers. Like those who gave me funny looks (before the H1N1 scare) when I didn’t want to risk picking up germs by shaking hands during the Mass.
Now that they’ve been told by the Church not to shake hands with strangers for hygienic reasons, there’s suddenly no more hostile looks or, as happened one time, almost aggressive gestures of disapproval.
Before all the H1N1 hype I was thinking for myself, as I often do. And thank God I was. It might have saved my life, even if I did have to endure a few unruly stares.
I guess the thing is, people are just people. None of us are perfect. And so it goes with organized religion. If we were all perfect, would there be any need for church?
Just some thoughts on a late Sunday night after Mass…
November 28, 2009
mom and dad ‘52
My mom and dad at a square dance in 1952. They’re the ones making the bridge…
mom and dad ‘52, originally uploaded by Michael Clark.
November 24, 2009
New template… growing pains…
We were just notified that some of our images were spilling over into the right column with some screen resolutions, here and at earthpages.org. Thanks to the person who brought this to my attention.
Problem fixed… unless you’re using 800 x 600 resolution… but how many people do that?
Maybe there are some portable gizmos that don’t like wide images. If anyone runs into a problem, please let me know.
November 22, 2009
Catch up…
Another Sunday and I have a moment to reflect on the latest changes at Earthpages.
As you may have noticed, we’ve given the entire site a complete overhaul during the past few days. Not only a new template but new graphics to go along with it.
It’s been a lot of fun but also a lot of work. As a result, updates to Earthpages.ca, especially, haven’t been as frequent as we’d like. But now that the new look is pretty well settled, and the site better organized, we should be able to get back to our usual routine of updating dot.org and dot.ca regularly.
November 20, 2009
November 17, 2009
New look!
I just implemented a new theme for this blog. It’s getting late and I have to get some sleep. Tomorrow I’ll tweak it a bit more.
The nice thing, apart from the clean appearance, is the new width. Take a look at “fins” below!
The old blog took a maximum of 500 pixels width for images. This one allows for 930.
Should be fun.
November 16, 2009
AUTUMN (VIVALDI FOUR SEASONS)
This video was recently brought to my attention. Best watched in fullscreen:
