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Dead in 46 Years
I’m going to die in 46.4 years, according to this quiz, since it estimates I will only live to 81.4 years of age. I wonder if it takes into consideration the likely advances in medicine over the next forty years? Surely not.
Maybe I should lower my caloric intake in order to live longer. Hmmm, 46.4 years to go. Pshuh, I’ve got plenty of time to finish that sprinkler system I’ve been promising to build for Kareena. Plenty of time. No rush.
Me Insightful Linguist
Phunny Phetish
I’ve been online for a while, so I’ve seen a lot of what the net has to offer. I’ve come to accept that somewhere on the net there is a website for every interest, obsession, or fetish. But just when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes this specialised fetish site. Wow. There really is something for everyone online.
Which is not to say that I find the images there unnattractive, it’s just that, I mean… of all the technology devices to be turned on by, why this one? Maybe I don’t get it because I use these devices myself almost every day…
Anything but Boring
Wow. Every day this guy produces an image from his 3D software, and he puts it up on his web site, which he oddly calls Boring 3D. Images range from apparently random flights of fancy to the on going “story” (if story is the right word) of box and naked mining guy, along with other great images. Simple but great composition and colours.
Check out his archive. Scroll to the bottom and look at them in chronological order as you scroll up. Is he really doing this every day? Amazing.
MavArt v7 is Live
Well, this, the seventh version of the MavArt web page is finally up and running. There’s no gallery yet, but most of my old articles are now transferred over, and the rest can be added as I go. So I’m calling it done. Thanks to those that gave me feedback – it still amazes me how strangers stumble across my site and say nice things to me about my articles. Maybe I should write some new articles.
I took a look at the first version of the MavArt page the other day, dated 28 August 1996 (yes, I backup just about everything!), and man, was it lame! Hard to believe how much the internet has grown (and commercialised) since those days. Now that my vanity page is based on the moveabletype system, I have officially run out of reasons for not updating it more often. Time will tell…
Getting There
Apologies if Google brought you here looking for one of my articles and you couldn’t find it. Google is still sending people to the old pages, some of which I have left up for now, soon they will direct you here. All the articles are converted over now, and can be found in the menu on the side of the screen.
I do know that 95% of my visitors come here via Google, so sorry for the inconvenience but it had to be done. Google will correct itself in a few weeks.
Not all the templates are converted over to the MavArt look either, they will be soon. Thanks!
This Site is Coming Down…
Yeesh. Although my logs show that hundreds of people are still visiting this site every month (2242 page views this month, mainly for the filmmaking articles not the MavLog), it’s clear that I haven’t been visiting it, let alone updating it. So I’ll be pulling the existing MavArt site down Real Soon Now and replacing it with a blogging system (moveabletype) for the whole site, not just the MavLog. That way I can easily make updates to the entire site, not just this small MavLog section hidden away down here.
Whether I will actually make regular updates is another question.
I don’t know why I’m mentioning this here, as the MavLog is the least popular part of the site, so no one will ever see it. 
Automatic Bad Poetry
Voice (Mis)Recognition
Spam, Wonderful Spam
Here Come the Nutbags
New York World Trade Center is Gone
Chatting to Lennon
Dance Monkey Boy! DANCE!
Online Parliament – Bandwidth Waste?
Introducing the MavLog
I have now set up a “weblog” on Mavart – after much twiddling with the weblog software Grey Matter (mostly playing with appearances, the software itself installed without a hitch).
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