Yes. I know. I’ve been slacking.

I’ve dusted off the camera and begun taking pictures again. I’ve started readying for a house search again. I got engaged. I’ve been distracted by World of Warcraft. School starts back up in the Fall. I’ve been dabbling in PHP again. Lots of changes at work.

So, maybe I haven’t been slacking! Just been slacking on updating here.

I’ve added some photos to the gallery and might post some PHP code I did for a news feed/parser.

Looks like My Little Mochi posted the postcard swap album. Awesome stuff! Direct link to my ten are four, another four and the last two. I got more postcards but haven’t had a chance to scan them in to show them off yet.

So, I signed up for my first postcard swap hosted by My Little Mochi. Sounded fun and simple enough.

I got 10 names. I then made a postcard for each person based on something on her site that inspired me. At first, I printed them out on presentation paper and was going to mail them like cards in an envelope. Then, last minute, I found some special postcard paper with the perforated edges and everything! Oh, and did you know that domestic US postcard stamps are less than Canada postcard stamps which are less than all other country stamps? Wild, eh? But they’re mailed!

Besides giving me more reason to play with Illustrator, it introduced me to wonderful artists I might never have seen! (I’ll post my images in a bit. Wanna give them some time to travel the globe.)

So far I have gotten three postcards and they are spiffy!

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Survey results from the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles (HERI/UCLA) show that the popularity of computer science (CS) as a major among incoming freshmen has dropped 60 percent from the fall of 2000 and 2004. The popularity of CS as a major among female undergraduates dropped 80 percent in the last seven years, and 93 percent since its all-time high in 1982.

Whatever we’re taking, we’re taking longer to graduate.

Postsecret is an ongoing community art project. People from around the world share their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.