Ticketbasturdz stealin’ ma ink!

Nov 25, 2009 by John    19 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

Maybe I’m just bit of stingey bastard – but coloured ink cartridges ain’t cheap. I buy ink every now and then and it seems to disappear in a blink. So I just go without for a while, and eventually get around to buying some more. And then I try not to use it unless I really need to, rare commodity that it is in these tough times. I doubt I’m alone in that ink buying cycle.

And then ticketbastards come along and steal my last bit of ink. With Ads. FUCKING ADS. They even state that the whole page must be printed – with the ads sandwiched between the two barcodes. I think it’s fucking scandalous. I can’t even remember picking a print-my-own-tickets option. And THEY charge ME €4.20 service charge per page. I should be charging them. They’re not even for me. They’re for a mate with no credit card / computer. I already knew they were bastards but this is really taking the piss.

142,000 search results for the word TICKETBASTARDS. That’s really saying something.

Print fun

Nov 24, 2009 by John    2 Comments    Posted under: art, design, photos

The Missus had her 40th a couple of weeks ago and I had a bit of fun designing and printing a few things for the party. Got a bit carried away actually, it was almost like a branded event in the end. I did invitations, a kid’s t-shirt, a window decal, stickers and a bib! Mostly via cafepress.

Will code for cake

Nov 19, 2009 by John    2 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

Got a dose of good and bad Karma one day a couple of weeks ago. The doorbell rang and this mysterious package was delivired in person, with instructions to leave it in the fridge for the day:

So exactly 24 hours later, I unwrapped the package…

Oooh chocolate biscuit cake. Mysterious lady with your mysterious package, you know me so well!

And with that I broke the eject button on the camera and the memory card got stuck. So two weeks later and a I pair of pliars here’s a late post to say thanks a mil to Jo. I really did very little to help with http://friendsofbreastfeeding.blogspot.com/ but it was worth every single bite. Thanks!

Photoshop disaster

Nov 13, 2009 by John    2 Comments    Posted under: photoshop

Funny. If you go to http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0302/nichofaighb.html you can see Bláthnaid Ni Chofaigh and her evil Photoshop twin side by side. (Depending on which banner is currently showing )