Sorry guys, but it appears that I will be unable to offer automatic PDF downloads after all. I tried several free server-side scripts, all of which have one fatal flaw - they don't 'float' content & images. This may seem a minor problem, but nearly all our tutorials have images in the middle of text, and the result of this when its uploaded to the PDF scripts is HORRID! There are, of course, commercial scripts that don't have this flaw... but the cheapest is £1500!!!!

If you still...

This weekend I decided to try an experiment. Magenta, my iguana, has always been very well behaved in my car. she seems to like seeing things go by and the whole travel thing. (and my old iguana used to ride on my arm, while my arm was out the window in my car, on the freeway (not to worry, she was wearing a leash/harness)) well it was Saturday and she was getting restless in her cage. the weather was beautiful outside and it was a good time to take her to the park to run around a bit. I put her...

this week I found the website for my graduating class of high school. I read about all the people that I used to remember, saw how they turned out. I'm kinda feeling as left out as I did in school.
they all seem to have grown up and done things with their lives. (doctors, accountants, etc.) now I realize that I have done things with my life as well, that I'm a project engineer for a precast company, and I have had a hand in making or designing parts for almost every casino facade on the...

As promised a while ago, I am now working hard on making automatic tutorial PDF downloads available for premium subscribers. The option *IS* now enabled on the tutorials screens, but whilst some of them display beautifully in PDF, others have a complete flidd and look terrible. Just bear with me... I'll get it all fixed soon.

PS. In other news, all members should now have access to 'printer friendly' layouts from the tutorials pages with a much cleaner layout. Hope you like!...

Just finished reading Stephen King's "Duma Key". I know it's cliche, but once I got started I couldn't put it down (to my family's chagrin). I really enjoyed the interaction between the two main characters and the humor between them. Lots of little sarcastic jabs that struck my funny bone. Kings central character is more often than not an author, but in this book his main character is a construction guy turned artist after a near death on-the-job accident. His paintings however, are...