General commentary of stuff
I’ve spent a good deal of the last couple days fiddling around with two list applications (they’re both Air apps). The first one, MiniTask takes (as the name suggests) a minimalist approach to task lists. The second one, Simple Tasks V2 is much more complex and has a few of the features that I think … Read more
As a Firefox 3 user, I was mystified when I upgraded from FF 2 to see that a few sites had some very ugly italic text going on. The number of sites not rendering “properly” has steadily grown to the point where I decided to figure out what the hell was going on.
Well it seems that FF3 doesn’t render “Helvetica Neue” very well… in fact it does a very bad job indeed!
For those Aussie’s abroad at the moment and lamenting the demise of Channel 7’s “The Dream” during the Olympics, you’ll be happy to know JJJ have come to the rescue! Roy & HG are broadcasting a half hour wrap up of the days proceedings from their Golden Ring Show website. I’ve exhausted You Tube’s collection … Read more
Having just returned recently from a 4 week whirlwind tour of the UK, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Holland and Hong Kong; I lobbed back into ‘lil old Adelaide with the very strong desire to do it all over again. But this time in a slightly less frenetic pace. I’ve searched high and low (ok, so I’ve … Read more
I was just looking at my Google Analytics stats for this blog, and noticed that there are wave like patterns in the visits graph. They coincide with Satuday and Sunday in the US (where most of my traffic comes from). It’s weird to see patterns like this so clearly pronounced in the stats – and … Read more
I can’t put my finger on what it is – but a well used palette of greys just does something for me. Which is why it was love at first sight when I saw the redoable WordPress theme – I had to have her!! Big up to it’s creator Dean Robinson – awesome work mate! … Read more
In an adjunct to my last post on choice (which didn’t exactly set the comment textfield on fire) I’d like to exclaim just how many ways I have to navigate back (and forward) in my browser! 1. standard browser back button 2. right click on page, select back 3. alt + left arrow key 4. … Read more
There’s something that’s been on my mind. It’s something I’ve spent many hours pondering recently. Choice. Specifically, which software to choose. Which path to take. Will going down path A get me there in the end or is path B the right choice for me… Accounting software, IM’s, Calendaring, VNC, and the mother of all … Read more
Without any real appreciation of just how complex it must be to release an operating system (with all the inherent backwards compatibility issues that WILL surface) or to create software that is hard to pirate yet easy for legitimate users to have fair use of – let me simply say that Adobe and Microsoft have … Read more
I came to the realisation yesterday when I posted about Apollo that the spam protection I was using was actually stopping all visitors from leaving comments on my blog. I disabled it for about 12 hours and in that time watched the spam flow in. The solution: Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin Hopefully everyone’s elementary … Read more