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2006-12-07t18:35:03Z
| RE: Cyber Tech. Design. Images. Money. I've been using an application called Canvas for years and I love it. Canvas is "the only cross-platform, technical drawing program that seamlessly integrates professional-level image editing, page layout, web graphics and presentation features into a single creative application". It's like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and PageMaker combined, but these days you'd also have to throw in Adobe InDesign and GoLive too. Canvas was created by a company called Deneba [deneba.com] of Miami, Florida, U.S.A. and Deneba was later bought out by ACD Systems [acdcorporate.com] of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. ACD Systems was best known for their acdsee [acdsee.com] software for photo viewing and managing. ACD Systems is traded publicly as ASA [finance.google.com/finance?cid=666435] as of 2006-12, but in 2006-11, there was news that they might go private —at which point the stock went from 0.22 to 0.50. Stocks usually go public, not private. The company site shows that they're still hiring, but I wish there were more reassurances about the future of Canvas especially regarding product development. EG: The current version of Canvas is Canvas X, but what are the plans for version 11? More SVG support? I started looking into the future of Canvas because of the awesome sale they're having right now $99 instead of $349 [https://ecoserv.deneba.com/DenShopCart/DenShopCart.ASP?WCI=BuyLink&sku=PCVXXEC1&lg=E]. It seems like I say this every few months but I wish some big name (like IBM or Microsoft) would buy Canvas so it could be more broadly marketed. The risk is that the buyer might screw up the development of Canvas which has been great so far.
2006-12-07t19:35:03Z
| RE: Cyber Life. Death. News. Survivalism. As a husband, father, computer guy, survivalist, and Asian American, this story hits me on many levels. My condolences and heart goes to this family. Only the nursing mother could have stayed with the kids. I'm not sure if I would have done anything differently. Perhaps I might have left sooner while I had more strength but I wasn't there. This makes me feel like posting more pictures of myself, family, and car online. The chronology of the James Kim snowbound story:
More info at James Kim [W] and via the Oregon State Police at http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1002.
2006-12-09t21:39:47Z
| RE: Cyber Tech. Productivity. 20 Things the average person doesn't know about XP [http://www.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?guid=A257968B-1247-46B8-8EAE-DF41C02E9D90] [via http://digg.com/software/20_Things_the_average_person_may_not_know_about_XP] May come in handy sometime.
2006-12-15t17:52:02Z
| RE: Nature. News. Sustainability. Somehow this makes the planet seem a little less lonely.
We need news like this given that the Chinese River Dolphin [W] seems to be recently functionally extinct. It's the first extinction of a large mammal in decades. Various conservatives laugh about environmentalists whining about minor species disappearing, but it's hard to ignore the disappearance of major species. I've mentioned before that a number of major species will probably go extinct but really minor species are important too, especially indicator species [W]. This is one of the issues I have about oil: Oil is running low and if they don't switch to more sustainable alternatives sooner, then in their efforts to squeeze blood from rocks, we'll lose irreplaceable things like The Wild.
2006-12-15t19:40:38Z
| RE: Chicago. Food. Two Chicago restaurants I've been to recently.
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