It has become a popular habit of the ubuntu community(and maybe the open source community in general) to release incomplete and crippled software in the hopes that mere exposure will cultivate automatic development of features already present and useful in their predecessors. I disagree with these methods. They are unjustifiable and harmful. Software such as the transition from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3, Pidgin to Empathy, and now from the noble ubuntu gnome 2.x desktop to the abomination of unity. Sorry Ubuntu, I had high hopes for you. Thanks for ruining it for everybody. I'll be switching to Linux Mint.

I've been curious what the geniuses behind Gnome 2 have been doing all this time. I've seen sneak peeks here and there and remained cautiously optimistic as they progressed. I was warned that it's "still in early development". Today I downloaded the OpenSuse Live ISO and ran the image on my Latitude D620 laptop. Here I was, about to embark into the brave new world of Gnome 3. The entire interface is infantile, ugly, and useless. It looks like Gnome 3 is trying to jump on the tablet/mobile device bandwagon. I half expected a little virtual keyboard to appear when I focused on an input field. The interface has been overhauled(ruined) so that the user has no control over font size, title bar thickness, icon theme, even color!. Indeed it seems the only thing that is customizable is the background wallpaper. Where's the "ease of use" that's been promised? Not here! Minimize and Maximize window manager buttons have been removed. So has window shading. Using a mouse hot spot brings up a full screen interface for launching applications. In order to limit your search to a category such as graphics you must run your mouse to the complete opposite side of the screen from the hot spot corner, select the category then proceed to select from a screen full of elephantine icons. This is an major setback for gnome. I find myself unable to fully express my disgust. There are truly no redeeming qualities of Gnome 3. Since I also see no value in KDE I guess I'll be running Gnome 2 until I'm no longer able to. Perhaps at that time I'll make the move to XFCE.

Added a new art category “mixed”. Just a place to stick artistic stuff that doesn't neatly fit into the other catagories.

Recently someone inspired me to actually work on my website. Updated the projects section with some metal casting shenanigans. Fixed downloads on themes and brought back the deprecated enlightenment themes. (Hey, why not? they look neat.)

This is my new experimental svg site that lingers on the cutting edge of disaster. I am aware that this will not work with all browsers but it should work with the only one that matters... mozilla firefox. In the future this site will get more and more graphics intensive as I explore the capabilites offered by new svg rendering technologies.

The boxes and web graphics on this page are now displayed with svg technology. The window borders are not pixmap images(mostly) they are crisp curves and gradients and can be zoomed in and out without loosing detail. I've written small php classes to output svg instead of html with the webserver.

A software section has been added. This section will get more advanced as time progresses. This will be the fulcrum for my “airship” project that I hope will become a creative tool for gaming and art that I've dreamed of.

More vector artwork. Inkscape really is a wonderful tool.

Projects section started. This section will include all the little toys and miscellaneous junk I work on from time to time that does not fall under the category of art or software. I hope to include some metal casting success stories.. Plans and designs from treehouses to my monolithic dome house dreams.

Oculus Icon Collections updated with nearly 80 more icons.