Calendar 2

First draft!  Made it with Photoshop--I'm still learning InDesign hahaha.

Calendar

So two days ago my aunt suddenly called me outta the blue asking if I could make her a calendar, which she's going to print and distribute for her company.  Of course, I couldn't refuse it as I'll get paid for it, although I couldn't ask for much either.  Only problem is she told me to come over there and get the photographs she wanted me to scan and use as materials for the calendar--what if it turns out that her photos are small, or not good enough, or bent, or something.  See it this way: photographs are META-Reality, so scanned photographs are META-META-Reality, and I don't know--I wouldn't expect them to be of brilliant quality.  Well, I have yet to see her.
By the way, I wanna recommend this CD Damien Rice - O.  I've fallen in love with his voice.  I actually want to recommend more but time's up. Ciao!

Try The Blower's Daughter--it's also used as an ost for the movie Closer

Free OpenOffice.org 2.0 Suite Launches

After over two years of development, the final version of OpenOffice.org 2.0 was at last launched on October 20, 2005 and is available for free-of-charge download from the Web in versions of:

1. Windows


2. Windows (incl. JRE)


3. Linux (x86)


4. Linux (PPC)


5. Solaris (SPARC)


6. Solaris (x86)


7. FreeBSD


8. Macintosh

While OpenOffice.org is not the only office productivity suite to support OpenDocument -- accompanied by KOffice, IBM Workplace, and many others, many are optimist that OpenOffice.org is on its path toward being the most popular office suite the world has ever seen, having Novell, Red Hat, Debian, Propylon, and Intel, as well as a slew of independent progremmers involved in its development and goverments to start using it instead of the presently more popular office suite Microsoft Office due to the matter of proprietary against non proprietary formats -- Massachusetts in particular being the most vigorous proponent.

OpenOffice.org also got a bit of a boost earlier this month when Sun and Google announced a long-range technology partnership. Although the pair have been short on specifics, speculation remains strong that StarOffice, or the open-format OpenOffice.org offshoot, might be the foundation for additional Google Web services in the future.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 isn't totally reliant on OpenDocument, or even a nebulous Google-Sun deal, to make news, however. This version of the suite features a new database component -- dubbed "OpenOffice.org Base" -- major improvements in compatibility with Microsoft Office document formats, a redesigned user interface, and improvement in its export-to-PDF feature, which now gives users more control over the quality and size of the resulting PDF files.

That is quite an invaluable feature that Microsoft Office has not yet incorporated I might add, and I use it quite a lot. The next version of Redmond's suite, called Office 12 for now, will also offer PDF export (reminds you of the war between Microsoft XML and Adobe PDF some time around two years ago -- they might simply decided to include that feature to add as a value to contend with OpenOffice.org 2.0), the company confirmed three weeks ago.

"OpenOffice 2.0 is a big deal…this isn't some new, untried technology," said Tim Bray, one of the creators of XML, and now an employee at Sun, in a statement. "You can get your desktop work done without having to pay onerous up-front licensing costs and without having your data locked up in somebody else's file format. Why would you work any other way?"

OpenOffice.org 2.0 can be downloaded free of charge from the OpenOffice.org Web site.

My Dream is Making A Game

Confused, solitary: Aren't we all?

*sticks tongue*

Would you like to be a programmer?  Of course you would.  Programmers are bound to live in a challenging world filled with amazement, including the eternal amazement of how you can make lots of money by only sitting in front of a puny system connected to the Internet.  But would you like to be an at once programmer, musician, graphic designer, author, and film-maker?  I wouldn't know if you would, you might even think it's a stupid question and subsequently also think that I'm sick, but I know that I would.  Making a game is my dream.  It's also where everything I want to do falls into place.  I crave to study music, graphics, and literature formally; I don't know yet how I'd study film-making as performing arts would as well force me to study acting.

I have most of the concepts in mind already.  Presently I'm kind of writing a novel with the story I want to use for the game in the future.  I even have a sketchbook dedicated for this novel, wherein I've drawn most of the characters in different poses.  I'm not sure if I won't regret if I tell the concept of the story and the plots in here, so I'll keep it for myself and for a few closest friends I have.

I want to make a game that rocks from every noticable aspect.  Any help would be appreciated.  This sure is so high of a dream, but it doesn't hurt to dream high.

*sticks tongue*