Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
A few days ago, I took at look through Amazon and MakeBeer.net to see if the Coopers Irish Stout I have been waiting for was back in stock. It has been unavailable since before St. Patrick’s Day. I guess all the Irish scooped it up.
Guess what? I was in luck. A new shipment of ingredients had arrived from Australia. I quickly ordered the Irish Stout kit and it arrived today. This is just in the nick of time, because I am running really low on my existing batch of regular Stout.
I am pretty excited about this upcoming batch. The ingredients include some extra malt for some reason. It says that it gives the beer a better head retention and something else…I forget. Whatever…if it makes the beer better, I’m on board.
I mixed everything togther tonight and placed the jug downstairs near the boiler. It’s a warmer, constant temperature down there. The brew has to stay between 70 and 80 degrees.
Here, I took some pics…
It’s pretty hard to take pictures in the dark. I had to turn on the flash, which I hate to do.
This was going to be my favorite shot, but it came out a little blurry. I tried to clean it up in Photoshop.
Here is that familiar jug we have all gotten used to by this point.
I really hope this batch comes out good because I have been waiting for it for a long time.
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
I fixed my little save for web color issue I was having. I adjusted the color setting in the save for web palette. I found the answer on this blog, if you want to take a look. There are lots of great responses.
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I am having a little issue. Whenever I try to “save an image for web” in Adobe Photoshop, the colors seems to be a little off in the save for web palette. If I open a photo in Photoshop, the colors are fine. When I go to save it for web, the colors in the photo aren’t the same as when I opened it. What the heck is going on? This had been happening for some time. I have the latest version of Photoshop (CS3).
I thought if I put this out there, someone can help.
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I have heard about some of the open source software floating around out there, but haven’t really used any of it, beyond what I install for some of my sites online. I never actually downloaded and installed anything to use on my PC. I really like the open source stuff that I do use because it’s usually better than the stuff I pay for. There are many more minds working on the software, which makes a world of difference.
I came across a link to OpenOffice.org today and took a look at their site. I didn’t know what the whole thing was about. Here is a clip from their homepage…
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
I think I am going to take the plunge. I am going to download the software and cruise it around for a little while. Believe it or not, I really don’t use office software all the much. All the stuff I use is usually web based, with a few programs on my PC. The most common is Dreamweaver and the next is Photoshop.
In a few weeks, I will get back to you with what I think. If it’s good, there’s the ok for the rest of the world to do the same.
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