Last week my father-in-law, Placido D’souza, had an art exhibition in New York City. The exhibition featured pencil drawings that he did of leaders and other famous people while he was an ambassador for India. Here is a nice article describing the event.
I missed the event because I was busy with work and other stuff, but I’ve heard from others that it went well. Mr. D’Souza was pleased with it.
I made this awhile ago with a co-worker while we were at MontaVista. We were hoping that it would be used for a graphics demo at a trade show, but it wasn’t.
I decided to post it to youtube and see what people think of it.
Enjoy MontaVista animation
This spring a tomato plant started growing in my garden. I must have thrown some rotten tomatoes in the garden because I certainly didn’t plant anything. Anyway, I recently plucked the first tomato from that plant.
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Last month the preschool school that I volunteer some of my time to had a graduation, and I was asked to put together some slides for the graduation. The parents also wanted a DVD of the show.
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In May I was in an auto accident. My nice, cool, faded paint, old ford probe GT with totaled. I was hit by a semi-truck changing into my lane. Read the rest of this entry »
Rude Telemarketers
Everybody pretty much hates telemarketers. They interrupt during dinner. Try to sell you something you don’t want or care about, and they won’t accept no for an answer. That kind of thing. But that’s not the rude I’m talking about. What I’m talking about is when they get nasty when you ask do be put on their do not call list.
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I would really like to make a few pennies or dollars on this site, and being a fan of google and how they advertise I researched how they do it and found Adsense.
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Sometimes in my work I need to get screen shots of the product I’m working on. Well not actually the whole screen but the window. There is a way to get a screen shot and a selection, but the window shot is less obvious.
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You can find global warming all over the news these days with various leaders saying that it’s the end of the world unless we stop using so much gas and polluting the environment.
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To update patterns after one is created and saved, and without restarting gimp do the following.
The keyboard shortcut is Shift-Ctrl-P
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