I think its so funny how something as simple as an office chair can make you day enjoyable, are these boring times? No I don’t think so. Its just something about that comfy ‘just right’ feeling that a good office chair can give you. These ones we got are nothing amazing really, but they do look smart…infact they give you the feeling of sitting in a Subaru sports car, and boy are they comfortable. Well, I guess in reality you spend a good part of your life sitting in one so it makes sense to have a good chair.

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I have always been a fan of dragons ^^, ever since childhood! I came across this photoshop brush pack on deviant art and had to make a link to it. All credit goes to the creator hawksmont at deviant art.

Wikipedia: The Chinese dragon is depicted as a long, scaled, snake-like creature with five claws. In contrast to the Western dragon which stands on four legs and which is usually portrayed as evil, the Chinese dragon has long been a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art. The Chinese dragon is traditionally also the embodiment of the concept of yang (male) and associated with the weather as the bringer of rain and water in an agriculturally water-driven nation. Its female counterpart is the Fenghuang.

Link to Chinese and Dragon Brushes

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Another picture in the creepy pic series. This of a tree formation, it might be photoshopped…but still sooooo creepy!

Enjoy!

A friend of mine downloaded the Beta of Ubuntu 8.04 to have a look at whats new. To quote him “…no massive changes in hardy, but lots of nice little ones”. I must say I think the first thing everyone noticed was the new default wallpaper, its pretty funky! Let’s hope this means the guys at Ubuntu are going to start taking design a little more seriously. There seem to be a number of improvements and compatibility fixes, but no new major differences. There seems to be a feature that lets Windows users install it through Windows but we haven’t had a chance to look at that just yet, we will most likely wait for the final version to be released, which is only 24 days away ^^, Enjoy the screenshot, and leave comments!

In early 2006 I began learning Mandarin Chinese, my main reason was for being in a multi-cultural relationship. Out of respect to my partners family I wanted to learn how to speak their language, her parents could speak very little English.

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So I have been playing with the idea of posting a creepy pic every week, cause yeah you guessed it TheOpenSurgery is a pretty creepy place to visit. Seeing its a cold day here in “Sunny South Africa”, I found this pic that will definitely add to the chill, enjoy!

*Bwhhaaaa hahaha* <—- Evil laugh!

Robin at NoboxMedia.com has released the Springleap web based image manipulation bundle. Seeing as I have released a few image related scripts, I thought readers may be interested in this article. There are some really cool scripts that can be used to add some cool functionality to my image upload scripts.

Go check it out! 

Hi everyone,

If you are a regular to my site you will have noticed this past week it has had a total make over! This was done, with much thanks, by Robin Pietersen from NoboxMedia. Robin has done a great job and I think TheOpenSurgery is looking awesome! So Big thanks to him!

I have created this script, that allows users to upload multiple files in PHP (find it attached at the end of this article). It is great for anyone that needs to add any sort of upload functionality, and would be a good base to make an upload service with.

Some features:

• Dynamic amount of uploads.
• Limit to only certain file types.
• Size limit on uploads.
• Avoids over writing due to duplicate file names.

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