A while ago I posted on my personal blog about quatum reality and the analogy to programming.

I’ve set a task for myself to expand my skills each day by learning something new either in programming or in design.

Today I’ve worked with a simple tutorial for Illustrator – How to Create an Abstract Desktop Wallpaper.

Here’s the finished wallpaper, free for download and use. I quite like it.

Are you familiar with developing for Facebook? Dave B. is looking for some. Drop him a line at dbrown0710 AT yahoo.com if you’re looking for a job.

I just removed the following LaunchAgents & Daemons from my Snow Leopard:

• /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
• /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
• /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist

Best to move to some other directory, just in case you need them later for some reason. Photoshop works fine.

So the point is, why can’t Adobe just ask on install:

• Do you want automatic updates enabled?
• Do you want an application to bridge Adobe AIR and CS products running all the time?

No, I don’t. When I want to update, I press a button. Every service running on the machine is added security risk and it consumes resources.

Today I’ve finally learned how to “bridge” two routers. One connecting to the internet trough ADSL and the second one providing Wi-fi on the other end of house, connected to the first one trough LAN. It’s pretty simple actually, yet without a guide I wouldn’t have done it – meaning either I am extremely stupid with computers!? – or the networking technology is not made for reasonably intelligent human beings.

So here’s a cool guide for setting up an AP (Access Point) using a router.