Yearly Archives: 2006

David Bowie as Nicola Tesla

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 19, 2006

I thought this was pretty cool – David Bowie is playing Nicola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s latest movie The Prestige. I believe I ripped off the above screen grab from Twitch.

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Getting vector EPS files into Microsoft® Office Documents

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 19, 2006

It’s not uncommon to pass around Office documents containing common graphics like logos as bitmaps. A lot of times the artwork that is embedded isn’t the best format for the task making the file unnecessarily large or the printed output of lesser quality. Bitmap, 1-bit Tiffs, Gifs or whatever all have potential problems when it [...]

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Eric S. Peacock Is Annoying

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 19, 2006

For at least four years I’ve been getting phone calls from bill collecting agencies or subpeonas for an “Eric S. Peacock”, who apparently lives or once lived in the Seattle area as I do. Apparently Eric S. Peacock owes a substantial sum of money I won’t disclose here for his student loan and also to [...]

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Mac Bashing Hits A New Low

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 16, 2006

So a law consultant tries a Macintosh and writes a column about his bad experience doing it. Fine, but then you read his reasons for it and I really start to wonder how this fellow gets any computer to work for him at all. Fortunately Macintosh developer Wil Shipley of Delicious Library fame takes him [...]

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How Many Eric Peacock’s Are Living In The United States?

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 9, 2006

The answer is: HowManyOfMe.com There are:66people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name?

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Convince A Client They Don’t Need A Splash Page

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 4, 2006

This is a pretty good one: SEOmoz Blog – How to Convince A Client They Don’t Need A Splash Page. Sadly splash pages are still around. I would have thought this lesson was learned a long time ago. I used to have a splash page on my web site way back in 1998, it was [...]

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Answers.com Album Credits

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 3, 2006

It looks like answers.com has been inputing album details with all the credits. They’re being pretty thorough or someone there has preferences that get a bit obscure. While checking Google’s cache of my web site I discovered some of my older album artwork freelance jobs are now in the answers.com database: The first Vanderhoof album [...]

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Neon Brown Music Video on YouTube

By Eric Peacock | Published: September 7, 2006

Well, I gave in and decided to try posting the previously mentioned Neon Brown Static music video on YouTube. You can see it in glorious Flash video here.

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