CafePress.com

Falkayn's Store is ticking along nicely at Cafepress.com with some moderate interest, mainly in the Serenity/Firefly themed gear I have up.

I received my first set of orders from them just before Christmas and found that the print quality was good, and the shirt quality adequate. One of the only annoying things left is that I can't get coloured T-shirts, like my favourite chocolate brown colour, on which to place funky designs.

The other annoying thing as a designer with a premium store is that it encourages you to apply one design to multiple items, even if that design really is optimised for one type of product (e.g T-shirts, mugs etc). I think I would like to come up with different versions of the one design that work in the different shape print areas.

Lots of Firefly/Serenity Designs

I've spent a fair bit of time in the last two days create a whole bunch of great Firefly/Serenity designs. The quotes from the TV show and movie are great additions to a cool T-shirt, so I've created my shot at the movie logo, and added some of the funnier quotes.



Feel free to request other designs if you have one that takes your fancy. I've done a couple of custom Traveller designs already.

Falkayn's Store: Sci-fi, IT geek and pirate gear!

I am proud to announce Falkayn's Store, a place where you can buy gear designed by me with sci-fi, IT geek and pirate themes.

Here is some of the designs:

One of Nine (well actually Eight)

Heh, this is nonsense ... but fun late night nonsense:

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Keeping Busy With Babies

Things have been a bit hectic in the McDonald household, we had a new addition to the family last week, a beautiful baby girl. My posting frequency has been a bit slow, but I am getting back in the saddle this week.

Our thanks to everyone who has given us such great support, gifts (pink of course!) and love during this time.

Angus McDonald

Snowy Software - Software Asset Management Tools

Our new endeavour, Snowy Software, is an ecommerce website with a range of great software asset management tools (stuff that does software audits, license management, usage tracking/metering and software deployment administration).

There is even a FREE 30-day trial (yes, free as in beer) available for most of the products. Also check out what we are doing with Cattle Dog, especially our new IT asset management blog, the Round Up!

Political Islam

In reading Wikipedia tonight I found myself learning about the difference between Islamist and Islamic. Basically the former is a political movement holding that Islam is not just the ideal religion but also the ideal political system for governing the state. Most Muslims are NOT Islamist, but Islamic.

Having said that, there is also an interesting online website called NO to Political Islam Petition, which attracts signatures as a way of showing disagreement with the Islamist principles. If you are Muslim then I invite you to do so, if not, then you might want to visit them and see what they are about anyway.

For some reason the world seems a brighter place for knowing this - although I feel foolish for not having done the research myself after 9/11.

UPDATE: The International Crisis Group has an interesting article called Islamism, Violence and Reform that points out that Islamism is not a unified movement, especially amongst Sunni supporters of it. Again, worthwhile reading.