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New Painting
Sue has done another flower painting, which I varnished this morning. Hopefully there should be more soon. I was photographing plants for ideas this afternoon and the light was so lovely.
Here is a sea grape leaf with the evening sunlight shining through it. Bit blurry but I like the effect.
And finally, a couple of (also out of focus) frangipani blossoms.
Mistaken Identity
Yet again, the Octopus has delivered! Thanks Matt.
I’m always looking out for art that grabs and inspires me. This is a perfect example of what I like.
Visit the artist’s amazing site here.
A good debate is running on Matt Staggs’ site which he has also transferred to his guest spot on Ecstatic Days here. Naturally, I’ve plunged right in with some of my own pithy and insightful nuggets of wisdom.
Check it out and join in.
I am really enjoying using WordPress. In general I like it better than Blogger, something about the style and design and ease of use, though Blogger is no slouch. So I think I’ll be sticking to WordPress now as I don’t want to keep switching and making life confusing.
A couple of things about WordPress really bug me though. Yesterday I was flabbergasted to see that I have to PAY to host MP3 files! This is very frustrating as music tech is one of the things I do. It may be a mercy to the rest of the world and to anyone who happens on this blog but I’m very disappointed. Once I stay under a certain space limit on my free account, what difference should it make what file types I put on the blog? I can put my music on garageband.com, in fact I do, but I’d much rather have it all in one place for my millions of fans.
Another gripe is that I can’t use one of my favourite features from Blogger – the ability to host my Google Reader shared items. This means I am missing links to fellow bloggers that I would like to promote, as well as updates from my news feeds. To get a similar effect I’d have to do it all again manually (something like what Matt Staggs does with his excellent Bookosphere) or add a whole load of RSS feeds which could be messy and is less discriminating. But the reader widget on Blogger was so quick and easy!
My stop-gap solution has been to place a link I call Nautiloid News on my Blog Roll list, which works quite well.
Finally, I found that I can’t load any Java scripts, which means I couldn’t put my LibraryThing book display on my blog…
If anyone reads this and thinks I’m being an idiot and/or there are easy solutions to any of these problems I’d be really grateful.
