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Wednesday, April 20  

Software

About everything I was gonna say last week re: Adobe's buying Macromedia is better written here at Mezzoblue.

What Do I Know is a nice read too, and sums up with this:
"In the end, all I can say is this -- at least it wasn't Microsoft." - At least, not yet!

Fascinating stuff. Software history - and web development history - in the making. Geek out. The paranoia and strong emotions just go to show how attached we can get to our tools.

Thursday, April 14  

No Time to Blog!

No Time to Blog! No Time to Blog! No Time to Blog! No TIME!!!

Sunday, April 3  

Fire!

I'm bisque firing a load of pots in my electric kiln today - the first time in my new studio. This is one of the things I really wanted in a new house... it was pretty great to just load them into the kiln straight from the shelves with no boxes in between. (I spent a long time packing up greenware and driving it across town to fire; I don't even want to count how many hours I lost to that.) I ran a test firing last weekend and all went well: programming was accurate, pyrometer seemed calibrated, no quirks. I'll be paranoid about it for a while, but I suppose before long this won't even seem noteworthy. My kiln is a size smaller than the ones I'm used to, so I was surprised at how few pots fit into a load -- I'll be firing this thing every week eventually! (Let's hope.)

So, time to go check the kiln. Nice.