A traced picture on my iPhone, styled and touched up a bit for my twitter avatar and if you look closely, you can find it on my blog too… I’m really liking Adobe Ideas for quick sketches, so there might well be more pictures of family and friends coming soon!
Same as #1 this was sketched in Adobe Ideas and finished in Sumo paint. I will give them names eventually, but for now Abi wants to call this one “princess bird”
This is Monster #1, his outline was drawn in Adobe Ideas on the iPhone, and then the colouring was added using Sumo Paint
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Laura: Would you like some raspberries? Abi: I don’t like raspberries. Can you get me … erm … a carrot instead? Laura: How about a banana? Abi: Oh Yeah! (excitedly)
Whilst browsing through my pictures on Flickr, Abi saw this and said:
“I always wished I could have a pet peacock”
Very useful method of ensuring jQuery is loaded before running the code that needs it - from How to build a web widget (using jQuery) - Alex Marandon
[js] /******** Load jQuery if not present *********/ if (typeof jQuery === “undefined” || jQuery.fn.jquery !== ‘1.4.2’) { var script_tag = document.createElement(‘script’); script_tag.setAttribute(“type”,“text/javascript”); script_tag.setAttribute(“src”, “http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js") script_tag.onload = main; // Run main() once jQuery has loaded script_tag.onreadystatechange = function () { // Same thing but for IE if (this.readyState == ‘complete’ || this.readyState == ’loaded’) main(); } document.getElementsByTagName(“head”)[0].appendChild(script_tag); } else { main(); } [/js]
37: left
38: up
39: right
40: down
Jessica was reaching for Laura’s iPod
“You can’t play with the iPod, you’re too small”
Jessica: “Doh!”
This post is a dumping ground for useful Ubuntu bits and pieces that aren’t worth a full post on their own.
Useful Packages
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Lookit - captures screenshots and upload them to a specified server, then copies the URL to the clipboard - ppa:lookit/ppa
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Teatime - simple timer, in a Unity launcher
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Giver - simple file sharing within the same network - install
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Docky - nice dock - install To get the file browser working nicely with the dock, you need to:
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Edit /usr/share/applications/nautilus-browser as root, changing: Exec=nautilus to Exec=nautilus –no-desktop –browser .
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Drag “File Manager” from /usr/share/applications to the dock
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Useful Commands
dpkg -r <_package>_ remove a package
dpkg --purge <_package> _remove all traces of a package
more at Linux.com: What to do when apt-get fails
Stop the screen from going off when the laptop is shut
Run gconf-editor
Go to apps–>gnome-power-manager–>buttons , set lid_ac and/or lid_battery to “nothing”