RAM not good

16°C, much fresher, still warm for October though,

Installed new RAM  to this computer today. Currently holiding 1024MB- and the idea was to double it up. the new DIMM cards are not happy at all, I can get just one recognised and even then some programs lock up when trying to use the full amount.

Expecting an Amazon order to arrive Monday, it was ordered on the 9th September. this is poor. Amazon often advertise stuff on their catalogues that they don’t have or cannot get- that’s not a one-off either.

Cerulean blue

No cycle to work, preserving that popped rib.ouch again 16°C. Greyness.

Epson– you are the most annoying printer I’ve ever given house room to. You cost £30 to fill with ink, then you print all streaky most of the time. Normally I run the nozzle-check & clean utilities four or more times. By the time you are ready to give we decent print, most of the ink has gone on test prints.
 
It’s now 21:20 hours, and I have run the self-clean utility 11  times, the result is still streaky.. Now the ink is level is down to 50%. It takes just over 5 minutes per page of A4 when it actually prints.
 
Never buy Epson.

All I want to do is show WiP photos to my Year 12s tomorrow, the canvases are in school waiting for the lesson. they have had one oil painting lesson with my colleague, this will be the followup.
I have cerolean blue oi colour. Gonna have fun with that!!. It’s traditionally a Cobalt II colour, but this is probably a modern synthetic, I own very few poisonous colours now.

recuperated

Cycling: 42 miles in stunning weather., 24°C.
Summer’s in the last phase- golden fields, but the trees are looking slightly caramelised. Hedgerows are laden with berries, blackberries are the tastiest & some roads take a long time to travel along. the ones at the top seem the nicest, more sun or fewer little hands/paws,  I don’t know.

Webdesign: more CSS shenanegans. It’s rather fiddly I have to admit! Setting up pages to use as templates seems like a good idea but then the layout changes when areas are marked-up as editable regions. Oh well, getting used to the idea now though, but Dreamweaver offers to link with a CSS editor. Now I’m curious- what is a css editor like to work with?
 
Here is a good site to get some ideas, w3schools. I learn’t a lot from these pages.

Me recovered from that enigmatic ill-feeling of the last few days- don’t know what that was all about.
 

Take one Tablet

Thin clouds- cycle before it rains!

New graphics tablet has arrived. Same as the last one, but not broken by leaving a cup of tea standing on it- who-ever that was- OWN UP!
I will post a picture when it’s installed.
 
off for a bike ride now before the bad weather arrives.

Premier 6.5

16°C, rain.

 
Why can’t we have some clues in software about the error messages that it generates? Why does Premier say "must include an audio track" when converting to windows wmv format. The damned project DOES include an audio track. This is nearly as annoying as the error messages in Microsoft Access.
 
 
 

Schiff beschmutzt

23°C;perfect again.

me the busy boy updating my own website, not enough time to write a full entry here. The css is really useful now, it integrates well with this site, even though there are a bunch of features that haven’t sunk in yet- especially <block> formatting.

Haven’t painted today anyway. However, the BBC are running a program on the BBCi
A picture of Britain. Worth seeing. They run a nice gallery of peoples photos on the TV, with short programs of advice and analysis on the subject of photography.

I’m off to play games now…

Cascading Style Sheets

 27°C, very humid; no wind; 10/10 cloud

Getting somewhere with CSS. What seems good is that with a slingle lil’ file, I can made changes to the site without having to upload loads of altered pages, all that needs togo up is the altered style sheet. My worry now is the transfer from tables based pages to the new method with defined areas using the <div—> tag.
For now here’s some useful reading:

http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.corecss.com/properties/full-chart.php
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/
http://westciv.com/style_master/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/
http://glish.com/css/
http://fecklessmind.com/main/5/definitive-solution-to-image-replacement
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/
http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/

“The sun sure did shine this year”

 27°C;very muggy, dropping wind (from the west)

Cycled to work against the headwind. Feeling fully recovered.

Get thinking cap on because I want to use CCS on my website. In case you didn’t know Cascading Style Sheets are small text files that control the formatting on your web pages. there seemto be some nice tricks that I didn’t know were available before, not just the coloured scrol bars. this blog’s formatting is all done with css anyway.

Premier rough cuts

 22°C, 0/10 cloud, :. perfect

Doing more selection during the capture stage of that video, then shove it all in the timeline with Automate to Sequence maybe that’s a good way to do it, at least I get an idea of how long the whole thing is. Currently it’s an hour, waaaay too long, but I can see where to make cuts, there are quite a few quirky moments that could be left out.
How much can fit onto a single-layer DVD anyway?