Blogger.com has bought a new server from the donations collected after it asked the community to help them out. Their recent publicity (as evidenced by my use of their service) was too much for them. It's blazingly fast compared to when I first used the service.

Attended the first Colored Pencil class at the Art League last night. It's an hour drive of stop and go traffic to get there, but the instructors are some of the best around so it's usually worth the trip. It was kind of a drag having to hear another lecture on color theory and to draw yet another color wheel, but it was therapeutic once I got started. The rhythmic drawing action has a sort of hypnotic effect. One of the hot-blooded young guys couldn't take it and left after about an hour.

Spent most of the morning going through the online Javascript exercises. I keep tellling myself that this new skill is going to be useful in the future, but it seems I've spent most of my life learning new skills to be used at a later date, and most of the time the need for those skills never arises. I guess it's good to keep this 51 year old brain active.

AnaloxX is a site containing a collection of free software. One program facilitates the search for MP3 files on the web, another automatically closes those annoying popup windows that appear when entering some sites.

posted by Bruce Wright at 9:31 AM #