[Helpers] Comedy of errors.

[Rich]

>    In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted
> empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal
> ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members...
> which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it!

Let me know if you still need a hand. BDSM is very topical for me!

>    I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post.
> Did
> you get either of those emails?  

yep! One received.

> That reminds me, I have to tweak the
> settings of the replacement list on domin8rex.com


>    I got stuck on the K ebook because I felt something is missing... I
> realize what is missing is more about K itself, for people who want to
> give
> the book to recently awakened, confused friends... some symptoms, more
> about the process, etc.  I have renamed it: Kundalini awakening: essential
> practices.

My biggest problem when I write is I don't know who I'm writing to. if there
is audience or recipient it is easy. Covering all bases and all styles is
impossible. Maybe just writing about me is enough as people will tune in on
this rather than something which may not be in their world.

>    I got a used but legal, registerable copy of Macromedia suite MX (2004)
> on ebay last week. It will arrive this week, with transfer papers.
> Dreamweaver, flash, the whole meal deal.
> 
>     I know you and others have offered to do flash animations for me, but
> I
> don't even know enough about how they work, to get the art prepared... and
> Goddess put an idea in my head about doing live workshops in the modern
> way, with additional clarity from powerpoint presentation.

Flash is a killer! Need a brain expansion to get to grips with it. I found
this program is an easier and cheaper way to make Flash animations in my
opinion. 

http://www.swishzone.com/


>    I'm still shopping for an affordable, legal version of Adobe Creative
> suite 2.  The legal, non academic versions are selling on ebay for >$500.
> usd and some have gone over $900. Right now I am looking at an older
> version... but I want Acrobat pro 7 because theoretically it has improved
> file integration.
>    It is selling for >$250. by itself, so I might as well get everything
> even though I don't need all the bits.
> 
>    I have photoshop 5 now, that is pretty old. Some parts of it, like the
> ability to make transparent gifs, stopped working altogether when I got
> XP... and the jpg compression algorithm sucks hairy moose cock.  I save
> them full size and import them into my only slightly newer version of
> Paintshop pro to compress them.  Sachiko has demonstrated to me how lame
> that turns out!

Well, another wicked program I love is Xara Xtreme. It's an effortless and
creative drawing program and now supports Photoshop plugins. I finally
bought it last week (US$79)!
http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/default.asp?t=


>    Actually, I have a whack of Adobe stuff that came along with my digital
> camera or photoshop upgrades... but some of it, like pagemaker, I have
> never found useful.
> 
>    A student recently asked about printing the lesson pages. They are not
> very print-friendly as html, and it might be useful to provide a link to
> print friendly PDF versions of each lesson.  Thus, my interest in Acrobat
> 7
> pro...

Only need Acrobat Elements (if you can get it) or Acrobat Standard version
to produce PDF files. There are cheaper alternatives
(http://www.win2pdf.com/ is just US$35) that will do this for you.



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