Rhino Man - Caricature

A Caricature of a Rhinoceros Man, done as a tribute to Joe Camel's cigarette commercials (especially the ones portarying Joe as James Bond). Painted entirely in Photoshop using my Bamboo Fun tablet, it took approximately 3 hours of work to complete.
This painting was done as part of "The Weekly Challenge" in Aviv Or's blog.

Flickering LCD Screen? Try Changing The Cord

A few months ago my LCD monitor started flickering. I was surprised as it was a rather new (1+ year old) Samsung SyncMaster 932 series monitor (see image), which are usually considered OK.

The monitor would start to flicker especially on grey and blue background, and it wasn’t consistent. One day it would flicker like crazy, at other days it would flicker only a bit. After trying the obvious things (adjusting the refresh rates in the display settings, giving it a bit of a rest, hitting the monitor like crazy), I started browsing through various technical forums to find a solution. Most forums suggested to distance my monitor from other electrical devices. So I tried that, but it still didn’t fix the problem. Eventually, I ran into one solution which sounded weird. This guy wrote about how he took the monitor to a technician, and the technician tried everything, but eventually what worked was changing the electrical cord.

I tried it myself, and voila, it worked!

I’m no electrical engineer, I don’t know why a certain cord would interfere with the proper functionality of an LCD monitor (probably has something to do with the magnetic field of the current or something like that), but I do hope this post will help you save a few dollars on technicians if you encounter the same problem.

Wedding Invitation

This is a wedding invitation that I drew for one of my colleagues. The idea of the bride chasing the groom with a net was his - his wife didn't fancy it at first, but she liked the drawing so much that she decided to go with it :-)

If you like this caricature and want your own caricature from a photo, I'll draw one for you.

Solution Management Caricature

A caricature of some friends of mine. They all belong to a group called "Solution Management", which should explain my usage of the idiom "You're either part of the problem, or part of the solution..."