Got the following email yesterday from a desmond1.100@hotmail.com:

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On 2 Sept I mentioned getting up at 0500 to get some pictures at sunrise. I’d been wanting to get this pictures all summer, but I kept forgetting to take them. Here are the first ones I’ve uploaded to flickr:

Don’t say a word

Originally uploaded by E.C.A. Studio.

I absolutely love this guy’s work and this is one of my favorite pictures of his. Definitely follow the link and come check out the rest of his stuff!

Got up at 0500 today to take some sunrise pictures. (I’ll have pictures up later today or tomorrow) I cannot believe how many people were up and awake on a Sunday morning at that time of day! It’s not as if it were as many people as it will be later today, but I’d have to say it was probably thirty times more than the number of people I expected to be awake, namely just me.

Finally went through what I needed to do to get the permalinks working on my blog! Now you can have nice URLs for my post which are easier to remember than before.

They’ve gone from: /?p=950

To: /2007/08/29/giving-nick-some-backbone/

to give an example from my last post.

I’ve used and created a few rigs now for my different animated shorts and test animations and I’ve had my share of frustrations with the process. First off, it can be quite tedious to create even a mediocre one. Second, it’s hard to create a good one; forget about how hard it is to create an excellent one! All of my rigging experience post " Penguin Flight" have come from a tutorial I read from the Blender Summer of Documentation. Even then, I didn’t do it from the rigging tutorial (which is incomplete in the most interesting of places) ; rather I did it based off of the Character Animation tutorial (which is quite, quite good and got me started after “Penguin Flight”. In fact, you may recognize it as the source of Raul Domingo).

Read the latest Linux Format Magazine and I was delighted to find out that the two IRC clients I use were each awarded a 9/10 in their IRC client roundup. When I’m in KDE I use Konversation and in Gnome I use gnome-xchat (although it was vanilla xchat that got the 9/10). Both were praised for being approachable by tyros while at the same time having features for the experienced.