Here’s a PDF of my dramatized account of rescuing Andy Clift’s comic creation, “Bertie Bear”, from a corrupted hard drive, using the ddrescue utility on a Linux box. This extract originally appeared in Linux Voice issue #13, and is under …
Read moreNo Comment
Apart from the index for my Inkscape articles, I haven’t been actively updating this blog for quite some time. To be honest I’m more likely to post on Twitter these days, and I don’t often do that. But that hasn’t …
Read moreOff-screen windows with Inkscape on MacOS and XQuartz
My go-to editor for vector images is Inkscape. So much so that I use it in the creation of my cartoons and comic strips, and have been writing a monthly column about it in Full Circle Magazine for over six …
Read moreFull Circle Magazine, Issue 63
The latest issue of Full Circle Magazine, featuring Part 3 of my Inkscape tutorial, is now available for free download. Full Circle Magazine is a free publication which focuses on Ubuntu and Linux in general, though the Inkscape tutorials are …
Read moreMinimus AVR USB
Thanks to this overly syndicated blog post (really – Planet Ubuntu I can understand given its content, but Planet Mozilla and Planet Inkscape, too!?) I discovered a wonderful little device called Minimus AVR USB. Basically it’s a USB-enabled (and USB-programmable) …
Read moreIt’s not over ’til the fat Chumby sings
I’ve written about my Chumby on this blog in the past (and this one, too). Alas! Chumby Indistries is effectively no more, the staff having moved on and any worthwhile intellectual property in the hands of a corporate trustee. Fortunately …
Read moreRIP Jack Tramiel
A couple of days ago Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore and subsequently responsible for Atari’s home computer renaissance in the 1980s passed away. I grew up during the home computer boom of the 80s. My first machine was a Sinclair …
Read moreThe League of Extraordinary Hypocrisy
So it would seem that DC comics are creating a prequel series for the seminal 1980s work, “Watchmen“. I’m not going to discuss whether or not this is a good thing, but rather consider the quotes on that page from …
Read moreAin’t That A Shame
…is just one of the songs from 1955 what would now be out of copyright in the US, if it weren’t for the retroactive changes to copyright law that have taken place since then. The list of other works that, …
Read moreOpen Educational Resources for Typography
Typography is an art form all of its own. It combines aesthetic and stylistic concerns with elements of ergonomics, cultural history and science. While most of us happily plod along with a few basic fonts in our arsenal, the right …
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