Archive for May, 2010

Red Belt

Friday, May 28th, 2010

I’ve been working pretty relentlessly for the last week and though I’m excited about the long weekend, I don’t think I’ll actually have time for an extended break. I have a couple of projects that I really need to catch up on and I’ve a WoW Raid scheduled for Sunday morning that I’m excited about. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I think that I’ve actually been slotted for something and not just standby.

I want my wife to start playing with me again, not right away of course, especially not this close to her starting up school again, but maybe after she starts her job search she’ll humor me for a bit.

I watched about 3 episodes of Better off Ted last night on NetFlix which were super funny. Portia de Rossi playing Veronica is absolute genius and I’m looking forward to catching up to where the series is now because I heard it gets even better. My wife had actually told me to start watching it probably two years ago now, but at the time I was wrapped up in re-watching Sailor Moon I think, which I still haven’t actually finished. Maybe I’ll wrap up Sailor Stars after I catch up on better off Ted.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 is Great

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

That is, if you don’t like version cue, Adobe Creative Suite 5 is amazing. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade it for an older version even without Version Cue, but let me tell you, version control using Version Cue for PSDs was an amazing experience, and I hope that I’ll be able to find a replacement or substitute soon, because I don’t know what I’m going to do without it. I like Mercurial, SVN, and the like, but none of those will provide me with thumbnails for previous version of PSDs (that I know of).

There is something out there called AlienBrain that’s supposed to be optimized for artistic media, but it doesn’t look particularly friendly or easy, though I could be wrong. If anyone has any suggestions, or experience with some kind of version control server that’s great for PSDs, either locally or remotely, please let me know, I’m pretty desperate.