One of the pitfalls of being a freelancer is that, on occasion, you run into situations where it’s necessary to do some work to get some work.

By that I mean, you have to attend meetings, prepare design sketches and present them to a client all before being paid a penny. Some times this pays off and some times it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, you find yourself in possession of “orphans”, designs that are doomed to walk the earth, never fully realized and unattached to a project.

This is the story of just such a scenario and the designs that resulted. Continue reading.

I have found that, since turning forty, it’s become a lot harder to keep on top of all the hair that’s suddenly sprouting up all over my body. It’s like some sort of late-onset puberty. This post demonstrates a typical scenario. Continue reading.

I avoided jumping onto the list bandwagon thinking that it was too self-promotional and oozed with, as my wife put it, “Oh, look at me! I have such interesting and eclectic tastes!” Until a friend from my OCA days tagged me on her 15 Albums list and I found I agreed with an astonishing number of her choices. Despite my misgivings, I started to ruminate on albums that somehow made a difference in my life. As luck would have it, this blog has been sitting here begging me for content for some time now so I’ve decided to just start writing about music in my life and see where it goes. I should be able to avoid appearing “interesting and eclectic” as there are some records that had profound effects on me but which I would hardly classify as artistic masterpieces or even listen to today. Having said that, these albums were once important to me and shaped my growth as a wannabe rock star. Continue reading.

Just for fun I ran the Russian text of the spam in my last entry through Google Translate to see if I could get a better idea of what it read.  The result was much more natural in tone but I still don’t know what the spammer was trying to achieve.  The Google translation was as follows: Continue reading.

This arrived in my inbox a few minutes ago. The text is in Russian so I had it translated with Babel Fish.  The results made me chuckle. Continue reading.

I was happy to learn that Sammy the Hanukkah Lobster was featured on Much More Music’s Listed program over the holidays! Sure it was as a horrible holiday tune but we were among some good company. I’m proud to have our work featured alongside Ren and Stimpy, Max Headroom and Gary Coleman. Continue reading.

Christmas Eve is upon us and I wanted to wish everyone joy and merriment over the holidays and all the best for the New Year! Continue reading.

I’ve recently designed a new business card (business cards, actually: three versions based on the three colour schemes for my corporate site ) and I’m having difficulty deciding how to handle the image on the back. Here are the two options that I’m choosing between: Continue reading.