I’ve been up all night installing a PHP guestbook with database and redesigning it. I reckon I’m totally twisted doing stuff like that. I’m not sure what is driving me to be honest but I can’t seem to stop once I’m busy. It’s probably the geek side of me combined with a creative mind: then you’ll get brain sparks causing a neural short circuit, releasing an overdose of endorphin.
Basically I’m an addict…
And like any addict I’m paying for my sins the next day having a total brain failure, staring at my monitor in a serious lethargic way. Why do I do this to myself? Was it worth the dynamics? Is it just because I want something off of that everlasting to-do-list? I even sent two faxes at 07.00 this morning because I wanted it to be done. Am I mad?
Well, yes and no. Thing is CH. gave me this awesome big xMas card that she brought over from the Lowlands signed by all the lovely customers I used to serve, each of them left a little personal message for me. So I had to send a fax to thank them all. I never really said goodbye to them and some might have wanted to stay in touch so I decided to set up the guestbook…
They can leave a message if they want to, I’ve put the url on the fax. Some customers gave birth in the meantime, some are getting married, some are still the same; kind friendly people. I even got a very nice handmade toilet bag from a lady who also lives at the Westlandgracht. So how can I not spend some time to sort out a way to stay in touch with them? Most of them live in the area, ‘my area’… I do miss that bit of Amsterdam and I do miss these people!
I reckon if that guestbook is going to work it will be worth every minute of sleepless nights. Now I need to work on my portfolio and business website, so please do excuse me… ![]()
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Illustrator
I’m so getting into using Illustrator again. I’m totally twisted and chaotic, I realise that. But I have been working with this app and I forgot what it was like because I was totally into Photoshop for a very long time… I neglected Illustrator but what a lovely app this is and it is SO much better than it used to be. Jeez what a simple installation or update can cause. Now I wish I had done it earlier, but I reckon there’s a reason for this and I won’t try to dig into that [for now].
I have seen amazing artwork done in Illustrator and I’m eager to learn the technique so I can use it myself. I reckon I will once I start using this app more often. I remember I used to do stuff like the example below but back then it wasn’t as good as it would be now since a lot has changed in Illustrator, I love the mesh tool which seems to be a curse to some designers, I see why but I reckon you should use the tools that are convenient and giving you more options to get the perfect result.
What would’ve limited me in the past is no longer an issue with CS2 and I’m happy to rediscover the use of this app. All I need now is more time to explore it… ![]()
I love this artist and her artwork, just amazing stuff! Her name is *Limkis…

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