Today I accepted an offer for a position at Vizrt, which I am very excited about. The company is a fast growing dynamic company with extremely interesting products in the broadcast graphics arena. Their client list is second to none including TV2, BBC, ITN, Fox, CNN, and the product set seems excellent.
I am looking forward to starting on Monday.
Been working on this postcard for a while now and finally its complete.
Started off in Illustrator 10 (yepp no autotrace for me - it was all hand done apart from the cake where I took a profile in to Flash) and then finished off in Photoshop CS2.
Photoshop was used to compile the background mostly, and make sure the colour was to the printers request.
Fantastic book created by a fellow humhumer for his son, but luckily for us he printed another 999 copies.
he detailed the process here:
http://www.secretcreatures.com/archives/dukes-ramblings/book-publishing-advice/
If you wish to buy it for the reasonable sum of $20 please go to http://steamcrow.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=42
Been messing around with Joomla, and so far I am really impressed. I must admit one of the features that I am looking forward to implementing is WordPress in Joomla - best of both worlds perhaps? I am not sure, as I haven’t installed it yet, but one of the resources I found interesting seems to have disappeared: a tutorial on setting up a Joomla template, luckily I have managed to rescue it out of googles cache.
I have posted the page here http://blog.timc3.com/setting-up-joomla/ and its probably copyright of compass.net so if there are any problems I will take it down, but being an extremely useful resource checkout their site.
Today I started Norwegian classes at Nygård school in Bergen, doing the morning classes 8:30 till 12:00 with 30 minutes break. Damn that feels early!
If you want to join you have to go along to the school between 1pm and 3pm 5 days a week on the 4th Floor to get registered on to the waiting list. I was lucky and joined the next day - today.
Basically there are different prices for differing lessons so it is best to ask for a months price, and because I have registered with the police and I am in Samboir when my number comes through from the Police this should be covered, otherwise you have to pay this. Books cost about 700Kr - not a small amount of money either.
The school is near the center at Lars Hilles gate 16 A/B.
I am going to upload a Photo of the outside when I have another moment.
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Wow! I have been testing out quite a few plugins for cubase recently, to complement my established synths and effects and I am loving the Tweakbench VST effects and VSTi’s go download some now:
This year I want to upload and create more video from my digital camera so starting with this post is the first, and hopefully not the last of my video blog uploads. I am just going to create them on my Sony DSC-V1 camera for now, using the default MPG encoding.
So here is me on a frozen lake, click on the picture to play.
Yes, its finally here, WordPress 2. I am currently using WordPress 1.5 on this blog and 2 other sites I have developed so I am not going to upgrade for a while on those 2 sites because they are working very well, but I might test with this blog - well perhaps after just doing some upgrades that I have been planning for a while.
Here are some of the new features:
There are also some upgrades for the developers which should prove interesting, but for me the most interesting feature is the Inline uploading of images, music and video - fantastic news, particularly as I want to upload more video to this blog. I am wondering about how I can split up this blog more though, because by posting about so many diverse topics I am breaking one of the goldern rules of blogging - have seperate blogs for different topics.
When we moved into our flat we where lucky, the owner had supplied a satellite TV box, and the previous occupants had left their card in there for Canal Digital. As an Englishmen I was able to get my favourite BBC programs through BBC Prime (an international channel from the BBC), BBC World news, BBC Food (really good) and english programming on Discovery and a couple of other channels.
Of course being satellite I also had approx. 100 channels that I didn’t need, plus Norwegian TV2, NRK1, NRK2 and Scandinavian MTV. A fine compliment, and nothing to complain about at all. Talking with others I have also heard that the rival telenor offer a good service. Plus in Bergen cable and terrestrial services are also available, but then our TV card ran out and it must have been a week before I noticed, and I don’t miss it so much probably due to my ADSL connection supplied by NextGenTel.
NextGenTel needed about 2 weeks to fix us up with an ADSL connection, supplied over an already existing ISDN connection into the apartment, into a nice small Cisco router, and as we opted for an IP phone a custom made IP phone adaptor. This was an all in one package, and we got approx 4Mb downstream, and 756K up - ample for our requirements. I changed the wiring configuration, meaning the IP phone adaptor was no longer a bridge but fed from our switch, and the upllink going via a cross over into the Cisco Router.
The IP phone means that we can take advantage of low call costs, on with others that have an IP phone on NextGenTel free calls. Unfortunetly after some digging around on PowerPoint Presentations from various Senior Members of NextGenTel I discovered that the IP phone was a closed system to NextGenTel. What a shame, although I don’t really care about this for in Norway, I see no reason that they needed to lock the IP phone down into a closed system. Further digging and googling showed that they have bought some fairly standard IP telephoney equipment, which supports standard VoIP protocols, so this much be a commercial decision to keep the carriers in the loop.
I wonder how long it is before they realise the mistake they are making here, opening up will mean even better communications for Norwegian residents, and could again take the lead from other countries (many of whos supplied of VoIP are using closed systems), and mean even more profits as more packets will be pushed over their IP networks.
The performance of the IP phone is usually very good, and now we have some nice Siemens DECT handhelds is less reliant on the siting of the base station, but they missed a trick, unless I haven’t seen it, with bandwidth management. It might be with my new switch based setup that doesn’t help, but I would have liked to see some packet shaping meaning that I always have ample bandwidth for the phone. Yes I took it out of a bridge mode, but the performance when I am hammer my Giganews account is poor, until I make use of the throttling on NewsReactor. When I put my Linux based Firewall back into the equation this is one of the first things I am going to setup.
But at the end of the day, in our house at least, Internet is taking over television as the main medium. We still watch a lot of films, but I much prefer the ease, quality and sound on a DVD setup even though my Plasma tends to show up DVDs not so well encoded, and the odd TV show can be had by other means on the internet I think we are going to see more time spent on the Internet. HDTV might change this to some extent as it has the opportunity to pass current DVD standards in its best configurations but I have yet to see any news of when this is going to be released onto Canal Digital system.
Just reading through my RSS feeds, and somehow I came across a online store that Joshua Davies was working on, now I know quite a lot of his work but this site was full of errors and badly formatted HTML and images - not up to what I was expecting, but luckily I came across stardust.tv a really nice fresh flash site promoting this L.A and NYC based motion graphics company.
The showreel is well worth a look, and so is the Flash if you are into that kinda thing.
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