Archive for December, 2008
Save the environment, ink, and money!
Yes, the recession busting font is here. A new eco-friendly font that uses 20% less ink when printing documents is now freely available to all. Just what we need in times of recession and also in terms of our environmental conscience. It's a simple yet brilliant idea. I'll definitely be using it for future printing where possible and perhaps it should be a consideration of others who create large documents for printing too? Enjoy eco-font!
Schmap it up!
Baby Giraffe Originally uploaded by jbwan Just received confirmation that one of my Flickr available photos was included in the recent Schmap guide to Dublin. Sometimes I spend so much time fussing over lighting, exposure, and other things with my SLR that it's quite humbling and satisfying to have a no-thought shot with my compact Olympus c-750uz (4MP) receive more recognition than most of my other photos. :) Maybe it was the models that I used in the selected photo - eye-catching Giraffes!
Wordpress 2.7 – don’t you look pretty?
Recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.7 and I have to say that the developers have done a very nice job on the admin interface. Everything looks really impressive and there are plenty of new features that I'm looking forward to investigating further. Nice work WP folk!
Scrap the Dublin Metro Project!
Join the Facebook group. Despite Ireland being in recession and despite an emergency, early budget to try to deal with the crisis, and despite a projected shortfall in taxes of €7.5 billion the government of Ireland still sees fit to proceed with a €4 billion plan to develop a small metro system in Dublin. This proposed budget, which will no doubt be inflated as time goes on given government failures with previous capital projects, is equal to over half of the tax shortfall and would put the country in a far better position financially if it was not spent developing a metro line only [...]
