Its that time of the new year when one year draws to a close, and another chapter in our lives begin. At this point I have to look back once, and take stock of what happened to me this past one year..
Personally:
Have grown older, wiser and fatter.
Made a couple of more friends.
Witnessed my son's first violin and piano recitals [a cute maestro in the making]
Missed being away from my family in ...
Its a very sad time for Omaha natives and society at large. I refer to the mall shooting by Robert Hawkins, that catapulted Omaha into fame, so much so that President Bush's visit went almost unnoticed. Sadly these kinds of outlet and glory is what is defining fame and society.. Its very sad when this becomes a role model of desired behaviour.
In a postmortem fashion, we look at alcohol, drugs and depression as the factors. But
...I like to design wordpress themes and change my site look, sometimes as often as twice in a month. To help me with this, I have incorporated a plugin called theme-switcher.
Below is the details of the plugin, if you are interested.
/*Plugin Name: Theme SwitcherPlugin URI: http://wordpress.org/Description: Allow your readers to switch themes.Version: 0.5Author: Ryan BorenAuthor URI: http://boren.nu/*/
Now because of this penchant of mine to design skins,
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This is quite a simple effect actually.. I took a photo, and pasted it on 2 layers using Serif photo Plus 6.0, my image editing tool. One layer i selected an irregular path and feathered to a 100, and masked it.
The layer below, i applied a radial motion blur. And hey presto, a neat effect resulted. Dont you think so?