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So it looks like the icons for my html files changed after I updated FireFox to 3.5. Interesting.
Apparently I had a Eureka moment whilst talking to J this weekend about what I was going to write for this update. Unfortunately, Eureka moments don’t stick in my memory as well as they should, so I don’t know what it was that I was going to write about anymore. This same pattern has actually been going on for the past couple of weeks, save that we’ve actually remembered the Eureka ideaa in the past.
Anyway, having not used it for more than a year now, I sold the monstrous Wacom Intuos3 that I bought way back in 2005 (almost exactly four years ago, actually). This is the picture that was originally in the aforelinked entry; you can see my super awesome Inspiron 500m and my super awesome Dell mousepad in the background. The kicker is that I got almost 85% of the original retail value for the thing; I’m amazed at how well this thing retained its value, being an electronic device and all. Has table technology really not gotten any better?
Though my TC4200 isn’t as accurate or sensitive as the true tablet, it’s way easier to work with on the whole. I figure that if I was ready to go back to a tablet, I could get a much smaller Intuos3 as I was only using like 30% of the space on the 9 x 12 tablet. The next time I need something that big, I’d hope that I’d have the money to get a small Cintiq or something along those lines. So yeah, no more USB tablet for me right now.
Speaking of the tablet, I’m working on the fourth all-tablet page right now and it’s taking FOREVER. It’s getting a little bit ridiculous and the worst part is that I don’t know why it’s taking so long. I don’t think I’m pushing too hard on the quality, and I don’t think I’m drawing an excessive amount of guidelines or anything, so I just don’t know. J says it’s prolly just a matter of pracitce, but it’s just a tad bit frustrating when I can hash out the pages in a couple of hours on paper with fairly good quality to boot.
Alright, gotta work on this damn page. That’s it for now.