In an effort to get myself to post more – I’m starting a blog series called, What’s Up Wednesday, which will feature topics ranging from art, gaming, news, and anything else that I happen to come across (or have created myself). I spend the majority of my time staring at the Interwebs – might as well babble about cool things I’ve seen or done.

Sketchin’

Drawing is one of my primary skills and I simply don’t do it enough. I do get to doodle a bit when I’m sketching out website concepts but drawing a bunch of boxes and diagrams just isn’t the same! I found a random stock photo online and sketched away for 15 minutes while watching Rachel Maddow on TV – and it was entirely relaxing after a long day.

Yes, I totally need a scanner but for now iPhone-camera-convenience slash laziness will have to do.

#fixreplies

So there was and still is a huge uproar over Twitter.com’s announcement of doing away with the public display of @replies from followers of… your followers. This Twitter blog post explains their original intent much better. However, happy-endings are possible, as Twitter announced today that they are not going to do away with public replies:

So here’s what we’re planning to do. First, we’re making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account … Second, we’ve started designing a new feature which will give folks far more control over what they see from the accounts they follow.

Blizzcon ‘09

Blizzard announced earlier this week that Blizzcon ‘09 tickets will be going on sale this weekend and that there will be a new queue system in place for ticket buyers. Seems a little bit like waiting to get into a round of  AV, yeah? There is one major difference – being in the ticket queue does not garuantee you a ticket! I’m about 70% sure that I want to attend Blizzcon this year, but I better make up my mind by Saturday so I have a decent chance of getting a ticket.

FreshBooks Update

I use FreshBooks to handle my freelance invoicing and project tracking/timekeeping; it’s a pretty good service with a good community and company behind it. Today, the FreshBooks team released an update to the Create Invoice/Estimate screen and after playing with it for a bit, it does speed up the time it takes to create an invoice from scratch. Since the Create Invoice interface is now different than the rest of FreshBook screens, I wonder if that means a complete overhaul of the UI is under way – if so, that would rock!

Dilithium Crystals FTW

If you haven’t seen Star Trek yet, what are ya waiting for??? ‘Nuff said.

Have a Taste

One feature I plan on doing in each What’s Up Wednesday is to share my most recent Delicious bookmark. This week’s link is ’skine Art, a website that features daily sketches from artists using the trendy Moleskine line of notebooks. I’ve personally been using the same line of black leather bound sketch books for years but I may make the transition to Moleskine once my current sketch book is out of paper. Regardless of the brand of paper – it’s nice to see the different types of artwork and definitely does inspire one to sketch as well.

That’s it for this first edition of What’s Up Wednesday! Perhaps I’ll have the next one done before Wednesday is halfway over

Category: What's Up Wednesday | Tags: blizzcon,moleskine,sketching,star trek,twitter

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