Laser Engraved Gamer Dog Tags

Recently I was tasked with recreating some imagery for engraving onto a dog tag. It was a Christmas gift for someone who is a fan of Battlefield 3. If you play the game Battlefield, then you are well aware that you can take an enemy’s dog tag in the game. With the recent release of Battlefield 3, they make this experience a bit more fun, in that you can earn different types of dog tags based on your skill, rank, etc. One of these dog tags (Read More…)

December 29th, 2011

Dangers of referrer spam

SPAM used to be something you worried about coming to your email inbox. Then, it came in the form of guestbooks, forums, blogs, etc. Its also something that shows up in statistics, such as your server logs and web stats, but most people aren’t watching their logs for the signs.

Why is this important? Well, some spam, wants to force its way into your webstats. Something many hosts put client side on your site, and can get indexed in (Read More…)

December 23rd, 2011

Happy Holidays Wallpaper, XMAS 2011

Variation on the XMAS card in the previous post, here is a wallpaper for those of you who don’t have Photoshop, and want to spruce up your desktop for the season..

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Merry Christmas, and have a Happy New Year!

December 17th, 2011

Happy Holidays, Greeting Card Stock Resources

I created something for this Christmas season while fiddling around in Photoshop. You can download the PSD files for the card as well as the Candy Cane vectors used in the card from my Deviant Art portfolio.

Samples below:


December 16th, 2011

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