http://blog.heliomedia.com ~ Rants and raves from the design world ~ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:31:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last year, maybe just the last six or seven months, has taught me a lesson. I am a moral person. I don't like feeling guilty. I don't like to feel like I am doing something bad. I don't like software piracy and I especially don't like being put into ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/14 This video is part of Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty. http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com As a fourteen year veteran Photoshop user and teacher, its quite a video to watch and see how the power of such a great software tool can actually become an integral part of a message gone wrong. Click here for MPG version ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/11 I've been using Macs since '92. I was a Mac user working with OS 6 and Photoshop 2. I've used Windows 98/2K/XP alongside the Apple machines. I've prolonged the useful lives of both PC and Mac hardware with various flavors of Linux (Yellow Dog, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc). I know my ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/10 Well, it ain't because I respect the guy. However the man in the balcony spoke for millions and he told the president just what we think of his track record. Click here link to view the exchange yourself. http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/9 Every little effort given to help save our environment and planet counts. Please visit the following links and do what you can to convince people to change the attitude that there is "nothing we can do about it". Join the Virtual March here: http://www.stopglobalwarming.org Help save the Boreal Forest: http://sleepinglikealog.com Aidez à ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/8 Like many North Americans born in the mid- to late-20th century I share the pop culture fascination with UFO's and other things unexplained. As a child I used to watch "In Search Of..." and often wondered about things like the Bermuda Triangle, ghosts and extraterrestrials. As an adult, shows like ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/7 I've finally had the chance to start looking at the CSS that lies in front of WordPress (the "database backend" of this blog), and so I've begun hacking away at some themes that I have found ~ trying to find a voice that I recognize for these pages. For now, the ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/6 I've always thought that George W. Bush was a pathetic character. Not that the folks in Ottawa have been much better of late, ... but I digress. This Chinese episode tends to prove my previous assumptions. Click and see for yourself. Once you're done, click the menu in the left corner of ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/5 I started using computers on a daily basis sometime in 1991 or 1992. That's a bit late considering the type of geek I eventually became, but let's paint a picture of that time in computer graphics anyway: I lived through the upheaving arrival of Apple's brand new System 7 while I ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/4 Changing web hosts is a drag. Especially when you want dynamic content hosting. Setting up MySQL databases, webmail, blogs, forums and wikis isn't a simple thing... no matter a control panel vendor says. I've spent more time with Tech support in the last couple of days than I ever have. But ... http://blog.heliomedia.com/archives/3