Jason Pearce

TechTV just highlighted a neat tool that identifies colors. I will be using this tool alot, for it will keep me from having to capture screen shots and pasting them in Photoshop to identify colors.

Nattyware / Pixie: “Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you’ll need for working with colours.”

I had a rather festive weekend. On Friday, the roommates and I dressed up in costume and headed out to SoNo, Norwalk’s bar district. Scott dressed as Gilligan and Adam dressed as a hockey player. I was Scuba Steve. There were many in costume, which made for a fun evening.

Saturday was for Winter cleaning. The big project was moving the game room, which contains the Xbox and PS2, from the non-insulated porch to the nursery room upstairs. It was kind of a big project because the room upstairs had become storage. That, and getting a big TV upstairs was a pain. But now our thumbs won’t freeze when we want to enjoy a few games.

Saturday evening Adam and I joined Scott and his buddies for a game of poker. Though I consider myself a novice at the game, I’ve managed to come out ahead all three times that we’ve played. Perhaps a solid three-months of cards while in the Peace Corps helped.

On Sunday, we finished up the remaining Winter-cleaning jobs. That evening, I took the train into NYC to have dinner with Merritt Olsen and two of her friends. She finished the race in under five hours with a time of 4:55. She was happy with the time, but rather sore. Nice job Merritt.

That’s about it. Oh, I did submit an article to A List Apart, one of my favorite online magazines that focuses on Web development. The editors seem to like it, so we’ll see.