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It is Rosalin’s birthday, today, Feb 9.

Wish you a Happy Birthday Rosalin.

Note, the above artwork was made using Inkscape based on a photograph.

This is the fourth part of the series ‘CRAP Design Series‘ where we will look into the ‘Repetition Design Principle’. The principle states that we should repeat design elements through out the piece (the webpage or the document). The elements that are repeated may be color, shape, texture or style.

Applying this design principle adds consistency to the webpage or document, and gives a cohesive design. It also helps in branding, when a particular piece is done under a specific brand.

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Sometimes a nuisance, sometimes cute.

Here is a free clipart giveaway of a mouse.

I have provided them in three different sizes that should suit your needs.

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Since the very beginning of human civilization, Story Telling has been an integral part of it. And by Story Telling, I mean here Narration or in a broader sense Literature. Be it Ancient Sloka’s of Vedas, Keats Poetry, Shakespeare’s Plays, or be it the epics, legends, myths, ballads, folktales or today’s fiction/non fictions or even journalism, they are all narration on some form or other. Narration or Story Telling is the heart of human society, and here we are going to deal with the types of Narration, from a writer’s or a narrator’s perspective: first, second and third person narration. Which type of narration is most used and best suits in which type of literature.

I am no critic, and will not give judgments over different forms of narration. Following is a comparative analysis of various forms of narrations.

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It is odd and weird when I see what a minority of people do - act without honor. They say that imitation must be taken as flattery but I do not know how I should be taking this.

This particular series of incidents happened by January end, and here is a summary of the things in a chronological order.

Short version

A person copied a blog post from Splat and used it as his own site without any attribution. When I asked the person to remove the material, I got no response, and hence I intimated Google Adsense on the issue. They were not able to wrestle the content down without a DMCA report. It was a bit of inconvenience for me to file a DMCA and hence I contacted the web-host of that site and was successful in removing the material.

Long version

The 10 step tutorial to create shiny ball vector art was posted on 13th of December.

A person, who identified as www.errorforum.com commented the post on 14th of December.

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Here is a step by step tutorial to create a vector art eyeball. A while back, I had put up a tutorial, 10 step tutorial to create shiny ball vector art, that seemed to have been taken well by the readers. It has got a 21% of page-views in the past two months. On the blog and at other places, people have asked for more of such tutorials and hence I thought I would make one more.

This tutorial is a little advanced than the one to create a shiny ball, but is along similar lines. I have created the above image using Inkscape, but I believe it can be reproduced using Illustrator or Corel Draw.

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