Blog posts

Photos from Nürnberg’s Easter Market

by garrett –
This past weekend kicked off Nürnberg’s Easter Market. It was a wonderful sunny day, with blue skies, so I brought the camera out and snapped a few photos. I also put 36 (much lower quality) snapshots on Facebook. (I believe it is set that anyone should be able to see...

Compose for typography

by garrett –
Often, us artist-types need advanced typography when making artwork, laying out text, and fun things like that. How do you usually do it? For me, it’s either been launching a stupidly hard to find (and annoying to use) character picker or searching for some character on the Internet and copy/pasting...

Tablet fever; drawing on computer screens

by garrett –
Jakub just got a HUGE Wacom Cintiq tablet… and he has instructions on how to set it up for Linux (well, and the Mac too, but that’s just a sentence)!It was just a few days ago when I rushed over to Sigi’s office to see his new baby Cintiq —...

A few things I miss…

by garrett –
I’ve been in Germany for two weeks now, and I miss a few things already… First of all, my family and friends back home (of course!). It was great to spend quite a bit of time with my family, and I was able to visit a few friends before the...

Squiggles and dots

by garrett –
Dear “lazyweb“,How do I type all those funny European squiggles and dots on the mere 26-letter US keyboard on my Lenovo X61 laptop in Linux? Searching Google and copy-pasting found characters is getting old pretty quickly. The correct way to type these characters is not obvious.If it involves special scripts...

The mystery of my mailing address

by garrett –
For some reason, most of the companies I interact with changed my address to a place in South Carolina.I have never lived in South Carolina.So now I have mail randomly going to who-knows-how-many places in Massachusetts, one in South Carolina, and one in Georgia. Thankfully, most of it seems to...

Moving ’08

by garrett –
My big news for 2008: I’m moving to Germany!(I’m still working for Novell; I’ll just be in the SUSE office instead.)

Starting 2008

by garrett –
A kind neighbor found and returned my Nintendo DS. (It’s fun to play while traveling, especially during long transatlantic flights.) He found it on the street, as I must have dropped it when I got back from seeing a few friends in Macon and Atlanta. I’m quite thankful that the...