Design

Look what I made

My first truly designed 3d printed object! Kinda. I have created other things (mostly font based objects) but this is the first thing I literally sketched out and ended up with a physical object. It’s taken awhile to finally get up to speed on all the different tools and techniques required to do this (and…

Theme your iGoogle

While catching up on my RSS feeds via Google Reader, I saw that Google has greatly expanded the theme options for their personalized homepage called iGoogle. I really like iGoogle for a couple of reasons: it’s cross browser/platform so it works fine on my work PC running Firefox or (shudder) IE or any of my…

The cows came home

I finally received my Moo cards that I had ordered at the beginning of February. This was my third batch and it was strangely the only one to take a really long time to arrive. I wonder if it had anything to do with an influx of orders from people getting them for SXSW which…

Another reason to like Apple

After picking up a new ginormous hard drive on boxing day (think Black Friday in the US, only much lamer), I went about adding it to my Powermac G5 tower (aka my server). For some reason, Apple always does things different than other computer manufacturers and the process of upgrading the hard drive is no…

The New Canucks Logo

I attended the Vancouver Canucks Tailgate party and new uniform launch thingy at GM Place today. It was nice to jump on the seabus and get out of the office for a bit. Of course they picked seemingly the hottest day of the summer so far to do it. There were a lot of people…