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There are three events of historical proportions that stand out more than any others in my lifetime. They are the day in 1989 when the Berlin wall came down and the day in 1990 when Nelson Mandela walked out of a South African prison and the day in 2001 when terrorists attacked New York City and Washington, DC. I am not ashamed to say that all three events caused me to weep. The first two events caused me to weep for joy, the third for grief.

I was very happy to stumble across this site today that shows me the art of the poster is alive and well: http://www.powertotheposter.org . I love poster design because the medium lends itself very well to bold, simple and poignant ideas.

I have been working on open source projects for almost as long as I have been a programmer. In the course of my career and my work on SkyBlueCanvas and WYMeditor, I have interacted and talked with a lot of people about open source. There are a lot of misconceptions about what Open Source is and is not.

I have moved all of the SkyBlueCanvas project code to Source Forge to try to better organize all of the resources. You can view the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/skybluecanvas/

One of my favorite forms of art is graffiti. I am aware that graffiti is legally considered vandalism, but I still consider the higher quality graffiti to be legitimate art. I have no legal defense of graffiti but it is beautiful. I would even argue that the best graffiti being created today is far better than much of what passes as main stream fine art.

I have posted a new update of SkyBlueCanvas version 1.1 (r247). This latest update fixes a few bugs and integrates some of the more commonly-used add-ons into the standard distribution. The new release is aimed at making template conversion much easier.

I am very happy to announce that the first ever commercially available Premium Template, designed by Qiming Weng, has been released on ThemeForest.net.

At the end of May of 2009, I prematurely announced that SkyBlueCanvas version 2.0 was nearly ready for an alpha release. It was a little embarrassing to have to redact that announcement but SkyBlueCanvas is an one-man outfit supported by my day job, so it can be difficult at times to find the time and [...]