Mark Thomson

Here's a sketch I was asked to draw. It's finally finished and is going in the post today. Took a bit longer than some of the others, because I put a lot of effort doing some gray toning (the scan doesn't show the true awesomeness of the final sketch). Now I've finished this, I'll be able to get back to Rally Mark, although...

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Well we're on the move again. Ros offered us her rental property because it's empty at the moment. Big downside though is we won't be living rent free anymore, which is a pain because we're trying to save for a house. But Rob can't take living in the two room shed for another 6 months, so we're moving again. I really hate moving...

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This command line tool is included with all versions of Mac OS X, and is also available on many other Unix platforms. To get started, try the following command.sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s 0 -w DumpFile.dmpThe sudo command causes tcpdump to run with privileges, which is necessary to access promiscuous mode.The -i en0 option tells tcpdump to capture packets on the first Ethernet...

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Okay so I got a windup about not putting sketch photos up. So here they are. Thanks to Rob for giving me a kick in the pencil-case when I need it... They're all fan art or requests. Hopefully I'll feel motivated to produce some original characters now. Okay so I got a windup about not putting sketch photos up. So here they are....

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Well after a week of insane running around we've finally made it the main event - Armageddon 2007. Just quietly I was crapping my pants because I've never gone to an event as an artist before and had to produce art with people hovering over me. I suffer from performance anxiety when people are watching, mostly because I don't feel my stuff is...

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Finally finished running around the place dropping stuff off. Only one more person left to visit now, so it's time for some play. Micky's gone out for a girly day with Beagle - apparently they're having pedicures. Meanwhile the boys are going to Snow Planet for an all-day snow-ganza of fun! The prices have really improved since I was last here and I...

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Okay so we've done 650 kilometers in 4 days. We did the mad drive up to Coopers Beach to visit Rob's Nan - it should have taken 4 hours, it took more like 5 hours by the time we followed the Twin Coast Discovery route that everyone told us to follow. Problem was it went off the main highway, took you out to...

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No travelling today - spent the day helping our good friends move furniture and tidy their house. The weather was pretty grotty anyway, with freezing cold winds and rain showers, so there wasn't a hell of a lot you could do anyway. We're heading up to Mangonui tomorrow to visit Rob's Nan, which should be nice, although we'll be in a technology-vacuum for...

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Well we're back in NZ visiting friends. Not much has changed, sure there's the occasional new building on the skyline, but the traffic is still absolutely horrendous (2 hours from the airport mid-afternoon), and there's so much wind and rain it's been constantly cold and damp since we got here. Okay sometimes I complain about the heat in Brisbane, but I'm kinda wishing...

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It's been totally bizarre here the last few days. One minute it's stinking hot, then it's raining full on with thunder, lightning, the total package. Driving home yesterday, pleasant one minute, then got dark, started raining with seriously large drops. Mass flooding, rivers sprang up from nowhere, then the hail started. Huge chunks of frozen ice started slamming down on the car, thick...

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Micky found this monitor outside the other day. Pretty big lizard, it wasn't too keen on being near us, so it shot up the tree. We'd circle around the tree to get a look at it, and it would move around the other side away from us. We watched it for awhile, then let it go about it's business. Looks like it's lost...

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