Playing with Ecto. It’s a blogging application that hopefully will take a bit of pain out of using Blogger’s web interface…

This is a photo from the Seattle Art Museum.

Apparently, Blogger doesn’t allow for third party blogging applications to post directly to their service. Ecto doesn’t allow posting of images directly to FTP locations (like I usually do). It does, however, allow for posting images to Flickr and linking from there. It’s pretty painless.

It links with iPhoto too; which is pretty cool. I was able to post my Canon RAW files directly and it resized and converted them to jpegs automatically.

I’ll continue to give it a test drive until the demo runs out…

Hey all! It’s been a super busy couple of months. I’ve been a bit pre-occupied at work among other things.

Among those other things though have been helping Jenn with her shop and getting some of her ‘branding’ elements in place. New business cards are on their way along with some new website assets (when the cards get here). We’ll be getting some fabric labels for her handmade goods soon. Oh and we had rubber stamps made for addressing her shipments.
I’ve also been learning a bit of PHP (well, how to copy and paste it from tutorial sites and modify it) and so I have a new email system for the site. Click the contact me link in the right sidebar and drop me a line. I might even reply!
I did a bit of freelance work recently and grabbed myself a license of zBrush as a result. I plan to have fun with it at some point – although for those who aren’t up to speed on the whole zBrush thing – the user community has been waiting for an updated Mac version for quite some time now and it should be here at any moment. For now, I’ll install it on my Boot Camp partition, which just means I won’t use it much until the Mac version ships.
Speaking of shipping new software… Alias 2009 is right around the bend. Yup. Any day now.
As soon as we get our copies at work, I’ll put up a mini review. Maybe they’ll even have fixed the ‘tab key’ behavior that has become one of those little niggling under-my-skin things. It’s the first thing I check with every release of Alias, and then immediately file a bug report and then feature request. I’ve done so since version, um, 9? We’re coming-up on version 15 (a.k.a 2009) now; but whose counting?