Archive for July, 2005

Le building

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I recently came across this very funny animated short, titled Le building, done by some obviously very talented students at a school in France. It is done both with traditional and CG animation techniques, and the integration is truly exceptional. There is also a very good making-of video of Le building, worth looking at if you are interested in animation.

Many thanks to Drawn! for showcasing it (that is where I first saw it). If you like illustration/animation make sure to have a look around and bookmark the website.

Harry Potter and the Torture of Waiting

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince book coverTwo whole years after waiting for the 6th Harry Potter book, entitled Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and I have had to wait another ten days before I can start reading it. (Where I am located at the moment, the book hasn’t been released yet–I will be back in the U.S. next Monday.) The worst is that I have to stay away from my favorite HP websites from fear of giving in to reading spoilers. To make the situation less painful for myself, I have decided to reread the 5th book of the series (this is the 3rd time) to refresh my memory on what had been going on in the world of Harry Potter. And it’s still a treat to read it.

My very own blog

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I finally decided to get my own blog as part of my new personal website. Hopefully I will keep updating it at a normal pace.

This is the first blog publishing platform I have used, and I made the decision to go with WordPress, because it is free, seems to be popular with the web design community, and it respects the web standards. So far I am very pleased with the amount of control I have over how my blog looks and functions. I am glad I have used an existing and tried platform instead of creating my own, which would have been time consuming and potentially flawed as far as security is concerned, becauce even though I am fairly comfortable with writing PHP I am definitely not an expert. I am especially impressed with how easy it was to customize the existing Wordpress template files to integrate my blog within the original design of my website. A special note of thanks to Jonathan Wold for pointing me in the right direction.