PigPog

It’s been a long time coming, but DPReview reports that there’s a new version of Paint Shop Pro – Paint Shop Pro X. This is the first release since it’s been a Corel product. Never used it much myself, but it has plenty of fans, and until Photoshop Elements came along, it pretty much owned the low-ish end of the market.

Tha Mooon. It really was this colour – that’s not been edited. Another free parachutist, too. Don’t say we never give you anything.

Great Article on Journalling by Jaymi Elford at D I Y Planner.

1. Give yourself permission to play. Creating is a dirty and messy process. The art of recording your personal thoughts, brainstorming and emptying your head on paper is never pretty. The creative process is filled with scribbles, cross outs and messy handwriting that could make a doctor cringe. No one ever has to see every little thing you write down. Grab all your crayons and dump them on the floor and allow your intuition guide you to which colors to color the blank page with. Your planner is your space to sketch out new ideas, to record new thoughts. When that great idea strikes, you’ll be scribbling fast and furiously, doodling and making a lot of mistakes in the attempt to get it all down on paper. This is not school and you won’t be graded on penmanship or for coloring outside any lines. There is no spell-check and no pretty fonts; so silence that inner critic and allow yourself to write big or tiny or be as scribbly as you want.

Journalling is something I hope to explore in more depth in the near future, and if you’re thinking the same, this article looks like a good place to start.

Rooftop and Aerial Against Sunset today. One of my all-time favourites, this one, and it was just a quick grabbed shot on the way home from work one day. Oh, and there’s a free parachutist under it too. Bargain.

GuitarGAS is going through their POD II, experimenting with the amps, and sharing their thoughts. We’ve got a POD II, and we love it. A little red kidney shaped box that emulates the sound of various classic amps.

Part 7 – Brit Class A #2 and Brit Class A.

It’s never Tuesday already is it?* OK – today, we have clouds against blue sky.

(* no, it’s not. I’m writing this on Sunday, and I’m inserting jokes that are only funny to me. Sad.)

100 billion pens sold.

The good old Bic biro. Surely the most cult pen of them all?

EDIT – There has been a fault with some of the entries posted on here recently, for which we apologise. The fault being that some idiot (i.e. me) has been failing to add links to the quick links entries, thus rendering them absolutely useless. Sorry.

Big Media isn’t well – sales are falling as people regain their ability to communicate with one another. Mobile phones and the Internet are giving the power to communicate back to all of us, and Big Media isn’t as needed any more. Andy Oram at O’Reilly makes his predictions on what could happen to them.

He doesn’t say which he thinks is most likely, just outlines the possibilities as he sees them. Personally, I think it’s likely to be some combination of Amateurization and Revitalization – much of what they do now will be displaced by people actually communicating directly with each other, but there will still be a place for big impressive movies, good comedy, etc.

Sky Week. Look up! There it is! Oh, no, that’s your ceiling. You’ll have to go outside.

A couple of bits of left-to-right cloudyness for today…

A bit of a nod to everyone who’s stopped by at PigPog this week after our link on 43 Folders. And to Merlin Mann, who rawks.

Click to enlarge to see all of the titles on Dave’s bookshelf.