This is a fantastic little offering from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

Wow, this is a cool series. Brought to my notice by my friends over at http://humhum.be, and its utterly strange but very very good. Described as Twin Peaks for the Naughties it is almost on a par with the famous series. Check it out at http://www.hbocarnivaletarot.com/ and http://www.hbo.com/carnivale/ or buy it at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006GVK0M/blogtimc3com-21

I always forget how to do this, but here it is, the way to install fonts on Gnome. I am running Gnome 2 on Debian unstable:
Open a Nautilus window by typing “fonts:///”
Unpack your fontfiles if you need to and then drag them into this window
It won’t show straight away but they will be there in your.fonts folder.
Logging out and Logining in again will show up the fonts as needed.

Yes, they don’t site around for long. Google maps is the latest and very nice it is too. Of course it is nothing mind blowing but then they have been working and buying some interesting things recently so hopefully it will be a case of more than its sum of parts.

http://maps.google.com

Fantastic review of the Mac mini, my favourite bit has to be: “So is the mini a maxi value? For me, clearly, no. When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware–none of which are available for the Mac platform–it doesn’t make sense for me to “switch” to a Mac at this time.”

I have been a long time user ofAdobe Photoshop scripting support. Firstly with using Javascript, and VBScript and then going on to build programs that interact with Microsoft SQL Databases using Visual Basic.

I was starting a new project and I am now using Photoshop CS which has the scripting built in now. A very welcome feature. I haven’t yet tested the backwards compatibility but I will be doing so soon. If you ever need to do more complex operations than the normal Photoshop actions allow, look in your install directory for photoshop and you will see the scripting sub directory and contained within are example scripts and the documentation. I am going to upload into the blog some examples, but until then theres everything needed to get started.