Happy 1st Birthday, I Animate Blog!

I started this blog exactly one year ago from today.
Actually, this was not my first attempt.  I started a blog using Blogger a number of weeks before that.  That one ended up with me going all over the place, totally misdirected with no clear idea of what to do with it, so I scrapped it.  Days [...]

Read Full Post »

Advanced Happy Birthday, Blog! Tagged As Well!

My Blog will turn 1 year old tomorrow!
And quite by coincidence, my college classmate and comic book artist and writer Gerry Alanguilan, whose fabulous blog I regularly read and in fact was the one that influenced me to start my own blog, tagged me:
TAGGED!

It’s a blog award tag, and behind the award is a wonderful [...]

Read Full Post »

Mac Pro In Semi-Intensive Care; iMac In Service.

I had successive kernel panics yesterday that really broke my back and led me to do some major troubleshooting to narrow down what is causing all my issues.
I will try to do this using the process of elimination.  I decided to unhook the Cintiq from the Mac Pro and install it on my back up [...]

Read Full Post »

Extinguishing That Burned-Out Feeling

I am currently working on two productions simultaneously.  My work schedule is so jam packed that I am constantly glued to my seat in front of my workstation. Sometimes the only rest I have is when I get up to eat lunch or to take a leak.  I also drive and pick up my wife [...]

Read Full Post »

Wacom Support Refuses To Help Me On My Issue!

I was bitterly disappointed with Wacom Support yesterday.
I had another gray-curtain-of-death incident again and the crash log reported that it was caused by the Wacom Tablet Driver.
I emailed Wacom Support to let them know about it. I even attached a copy of my previous kernel panic report logs just in case.
Wacom Support wrote [...]

Read Full Post »

New WordPress For iPhone!

Testing the new iPhone App WordPress for iPhone.
Pretty cool! This would be my very first post from the iPhone itself.
The touch screen keyboard of the device works well for me, albeit I am typing with only my index finger.
For me, the iPhone is a glorified Palm Pilot. I used to own a Palm [...]

Read Full Post »

I Animate, iPhone 3G.

I just have to write about my new iPhone 3G.
Mine is the white 16 Gig version:

As some of you may well know, Apple released the second version of the very popular iPhone last July 11 and was made available here in Canada too.  
Not wanting to be left out, I decided that day to line [...]

Read Full Post »

Mac OS X 10.5.4 Crash Report 004: Kernel Panic!

Boy, I thought I was running scott free.  I was just about to declare that my crashes has been solved and solution found when my Mac Pro decided to ground me and crash once more.
This time, it was a Kernel Task:

I was not doing anything when the crash occurred.  In fact, I was at the [...]

Read Full Post »

Mac OS X 10.5.4 Crash Report 003: Two Successive Crashes!

Oh boy, it was not too long after that first crash and I rebooted and started working once again when I suffered another crash, this time the log indicates Adobe Flash CS3 as the culprit!
Did that Adobe update I just did threw in something to make the system unstable once again?
I will be performing a [...]

Read Full Post »

Mac OS X 10.5.4 Crash Report 002: Updated Flash CS3 And Boom!

So here I was working early morning of this Sunday.  When I booted up my sytem, the Adobe Updater came up so I thought, what the heck, might as well update Flash CS3.
Right after the update has completed it’s run, I went back to work.  Not a few minutes after, Mac OS X crashed.
Aarrrgghh!
Isn’t it [...]

Read Full Post »