Water saving

Watering with a sprinkler, drip etc has a serious disadvantage , a lot of water gets lost by evaporation . So I always thought of using Olla for irrigation . The idea is that the earthen pot is dug into the earth next to the roots of the plant and water seeps out slowly right next to the roots . And then I had this inspiration what if I replace it with a plastic bottle with tiny little holes . Sadly even the tiniest holes makes the water gush out and in less than 10 minutes all the water is gone . Then it was suggested by the good people at Gardenstew that I should put some cotton yarn in these holes that will act as a wick and regulate the water . So I did exactly that and the system seems to work .Here is a little graphic to explain the idea . Needless to say I used Inkscape for the graphic.



Apparently this idea always existed and wasn't as original as I thought .
Silicon can also be used in conjunction with the cotton yarn to reduce the water oozing out of the holes .

Shiny buttons in Inkscape

Switch on the grid



Create a rectangle



Press F2 and grab the circle grip and drag to make it rounded



Make another rectangle , fill it with white and a gradient from white to transparent



Switch of the stroke



Copy the original rectangle and lower to bottom



Change it's color , switch of the stroke and add transparency


Add some text



Export as a png



You can change the color of the first rectangle and get a variety of colors.



The svg file can be downloaded here .

Still waiting for your Butterchicken ?

Butterchicken in Inkscape.

Figured out that blurs do not render well . so sticking to plain transparency.

Text on path

COULN'T MANAGE TO DISPLAY TEXT ON A PATH ON FIREFOX SO HERE IS A PNG INSTEAD.

An armadillo spiral

The armadillo comes from the open clipart library

The embed tag doesn't show up in Firefox 3 , so changed the tags to object .

A test with svg

With my recent love for Inkscape and scalable vector graphics , I have to do a little test with svg in html. This what is looks like with the embed tag



and this what is looks like with the object tag



Had a few hiccups , the height and width had to be explicitly stated otherwise there were scrollbars on bottom and side
Text came out as black boxes till I edited the text frames to text in inkscape . New problem , I changed the text to text along path and it did not show . Object to pattern also did not show . IE doesn't display the svg without the Adobe svg plugin , I should probably say Best viewed in Firefox or ask everyone to install the adobe svg plugin .