• I Wept Teaching A Class Today

    Today was my last day working in Colorado Springs. I fly out early tomorrow morning. Because I am so passionate about InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc., about the graphics industry, and about sharing my enthusiasm for these things with others through teaching classes, I often bond with my students. On many occassions students treat me to…

  • Blog… Crumbling… MT… Dying…

    This blog and the Saturday Slant will be down for a couple of weeks because Movable Type is falling apart. The software on which blog runs, Movable Type running off a SQL database, is crumbling. It’s dying, a piece at a time. Comments died some weeks ago, preventing anyone–including me–from posting comments. Now, it’s a…

  • Living Fully In the Age of Computers

    Lisa Scheller writes about Living fully in the age of computers, how to think like a computer, and, more importantly, how not to think like a computer.

  • Adobe Shares What Happens In Vegas With The World

    Adobe Shares What Happens In Vegas With The World.–The Design Weblog–design.weblogsinc.com Today Adobe announced Acrobat 7.0 and The Design Weblog is right on top of it with a detailed report on the feature-rich, more mature glue that holds the Adobe creative workflow together. “ Acrobat 7 is not the complete overhaul that was Acrobat 6,…

  • Blog Problems, MT Falling Apart

    Grrr! Moveable Type, the blog software that drives this blog, is falling apart. Error after error, problem after problem. Auto-pinging has always been an issue. Posting and commenting out of memory errors happen sporadically every few months. Now no one can comment on my posts because MT is claiming MT-Blacklist is broken. Neither the MT…

  • QuarkXPress 6.5: Revolutionary… Or Desperate?

    Last week Quark released QuarkXPress 6.5, a hint, an intimation, perhaps even a promise, of where Quark 7 may take us next year. The 6.5 upgrade, available free of charge to all registered Quark 6 users, has new features, though none of them insurgent. Not in today’s desktop publishing dominated by the agile, feature-packed InDesign.…