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Grid Database Design author: April J. Wells asin: 0849328004

Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop (Graphic Design) author: Timothy Samara asin: 1564968936

Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Design Briefs) author: Kimberly Elam asin: 1568984650

Grids for the Internet & Other Digital Media author: Veruschka Götz asin: 2884790039

I have been trying to use grid based layouts every now and then but I never really warmed up to them, mainly because they were quite somewhat clumsy to use, heavy in code etc.

So I stumbled over this one here to-day: the 960 Grid System. 960 stands for the common web site width of 960 Pixels of course, and the grid system comes in either a 12 or 16 grid which is nice.

I think I will give this grid system a go as they also included some very nice sketch pads and photoshop and omnigraffle files to get you going in the early design stages.

Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) author: Jay Rubin asin: 4770028024

I have been studying Japanese for many many years, starting from initial studies of the Japanese language, history and culture in University years back.

There has been really some rumble going on with Adobe's decision to not support nor to update/port their older Adobe CS applications (CS1 and CS2) to Apples latest Mac OS 10.5, aka Leopard.

This has kept me, too, from early switching to Leopard, though I quite liked the features of the new Mac OS. But not being able to use my Adobe CS applications any longer other then being forced to spend a outrageous amount of money upgrading to CS3 - which I personally believe is quite an impertinence by Adobe (and maybe even Apple?).

This week I got my new MacBook. It is absolutely great fun - the Intel Duo Core processor is fast as hell and the new screen ratio (more 16:9 then 3:4 like my old iBook) is very pleasing to the eye. Though I really have to get used to the keyboard. Or the keyboard needs to get used to me... I got the feeling like it is not as smooth as the old iBook's or the current regular Apple keyboard.