Tag / twitter

by Ben

Tweeted this week 2009-05-31

  • Installed and getting intimate with Windows 7. Honestly, I’m quite impressed; in a slightly “it’s about time” kind of way. http://is.gd/HM1r #
  • Ah today is such a relief – no work! Which means me, my pc and a lot of loud music; been through cat empire, rodrigo y gabriela – now NOFX. #
  • #3wordsaftersex :: “Can I help?” #
  • I no longer know what I’m supposed to do on or with facebook. There’s a lot fighting for my attention but nothing actually interests me! #
  • Google Wave looks absolutely amazing! I’m a long time gmail user and this makes a lot of sense to me. http://wave.google.com #
  • RT @sitepointdotcom Why Opera 10’s User Agent Smells Bad :: Version num. shouldn’t be compromised for bad scripts http://tr.im/mNEY #
  • Hmm, heavy night last night.. Long slow day today but it’s relaxing into a nice bright but cool evening. @colliersteph missing you muchly #
  • Tweeting with twitter-tools by Alex King. Can’t wait to see what the weekly digest looks like. WordPress could turn me.. it really could. #
  • Stuck at work, staring at what’s left of todays sunshine. My kingdom for a window that opens! #

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by Ben

Tweeting with pleasure, courtesy of Inkscape

Today I was inspired to draw.

Well, strictly tonight, technically this morning…

Anyway. I quite accidentally found this Twitter style tutorial and decided I wanted a twitter icon of my own, that would go with the colours of my new design. However, I don’t use Adobe Illustrator… or whatever. Just Open Source programs.

Tweeting the way I like it

Tweeting the way I like it

So out came Inkscape, off ran an hour or two of my time and I produced this.

After a relatively (for me) short period of time tinkering with it, I decided I didn’t really like the way the eyes and cheeks were done in the original article so went back to my more cartoon-like style (seen in my previous doodles.. keep your eyes peeled for when my portfolio goes online).

Actually, I’m pretty pleased with it. I could’ve spent much longer tidying it up, and I probably will go back to it and do just that, but I’ll write up a tutorial to go with when I do.

For now, it’s just gone half three in the morning… and I should really sleep.

EDIT –>

Just thought I’d put the source file up for download as well, I bang on enough to my friends about Open Source, what kind of en example am I setting if I don’t follow my own advice!

My Tweeting Birdy – SVG :: Download source

by Ben

Flocking all over the web

Started playing with Flock again recently. I dabbled with it while it was in its infancy a year or so ago and boy has it come on since then! The integration of the most popular social networking sites is brilliant, seamless integration with facebook, twitter, flickr, delicious bookmarks, digg, myspace (well… I suppose some people must still use it).

I think a review is shaping up in my head already – watch this space!