Abandoned Depot

Although I sang the song which written by John Lennon with children last Xmas, the people living in the country which I stay don't have custom to celebrate Xmas and a new year. Today is just a ordinary day for us, so I have to go to work. That remind me Stevie Wonder's lyric. Don't worry about me. Here is very peaceful place.

I just post to say "Happy new year" for all of you.

In japan, we usually paste a stamp on the upper left side of an envelope when we post a real mail. I guess that is not common in the world. It should be on the upper right. I suppose that relates the direction of writing. We use vertical writing when we write in the formal/old style. In this way, letters go top to bottom in a line, then lines go right to left. The Right side is the beginning of the sentence, and the left side is the end. Therefore pasting stamps on the left side seems to be reasonable.

The mail icon which I made for the skin imformed in the previous post has a left side stamp. I did that without thinking.

The icons were made with GIMP and Inkscape. Needless to say, both of them are open source projects and very useful applications. Today, GIMP became a mature reliable application. On the other, Inkscape is making dramatic progress. It improves day by day. I recommend Inkscape to edit SVG.

At the time I made the icons for earlier version of my skin ( about two years ago ), I mainly used GIMP. But this time, almost all processes have been done with Inkscape. I uploaded the SVG file here. You can modify and change icons whichever you want, especially the location of the stamp that may annoy you...

I updated my skins named "rag-blaster" and "rag-blaster lite" to respond 9. I added feed icon, widget icon and such.

If you are an old user, you might know that the skins started for my personal need. I think they are quite far from perfect quality, but usefull for me.

Please enjoy if you like them.