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Entries from November 2007

Election: Kevin ‘07

Yesterday was Election Day in Australia.
The Campaign
It was one of the most uncertain elections in my memory. The campaign by the Labor party (formerly the opposition) was strong. Although, I found a lot of it to be misleading. All of the television adverts I saw misrepresented our government system. They seemed to summarise all the [...]

VectorMagic vs. Inkscape’s Bitmap Trace

LaurenMarie’s review of her experience with VectorMagic inspired me to check VectorMagic out.
Inkscape is versatile open source vector graphics software. I’ve used its bitmap trace function to convert drawings and photographs into scalable vectors, including: the tree in the header, it was originally converted from a drawing; the guy with the umbrella in this wallpaper; [...]

The Beautiful Sony Ericsson S500i

When my phone was stolen in July, I wasn’t that disappointed because my MacBook wasn’t stolen! However, my replacement phone didn’t live up to my old one. I couldn’t connect to my computer, I had to import my numbers manually, very limited ringtone and background options (not to mention the amount of space it took [...]

 

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