As an expat, I find Facebook to be an excellent way of keeping up with friends in other countries and timezones. I really like most aspects of it. Some parts of it really, really annoy me though. So much in fact, that I studiously block the offending items from [...] Continue Reading…

I’ve been thinking about eBook Readers for a long time now.

I almost bought a Kindle. Several times. Then I almost bought a Nook. Then I almost bought a Kindle. Again.

The thing that kept stopping me was that I wanted something that could do more. I like to travel, [...] Continue Reading…

Introducing a theme reminiscent of the old school style of blogging, otherwise known as writing in a journal – Simple Notepad.

Simple Notepad is a theme for the WordPress platform. It was intentionally designed without a lot of visible frills in the background with the goal of keeping the reader’s [...] Continue Reading…

This is the complete version of the default image used in the SubtleFlux theme. It was taken at sunrise from Mill Point, on the side of Lake Cootharaba in Queensland, Australia.

Recently, somebody suggested I take a look at CSSEdit by MacRabbit. As a regular user of MacRabbit’s Espresso, I had no qualms with downloading the trial version to take a look. The rest, as they say, is history.

I played with the application for less than 5 minutes [...] Continue Reading…

There has been widespread concern around the internet world following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this week. It’s no surprise really, when you consider most of the internet runs on the open source MySQL database that will soon find itself in Oracle’s world-class (and costly) database lineup.

I’ve [...] Continue Reading…

You’ve put a lot of thought into your blog content, so don’t let your theme draw attention from it. Introducing a nice and subtle theme that helps your reader focus on your content, not the surrounding elements – SubtleFlux.

SubtleFlux is a theme for the WordPress platform. It was [...] Continue Reading…

Good news for iPhone users!

When you browse the State of Flux from your iPhone or iPod Touch, you will now be served a version of the site that has been optimized just for you! The content remains the same, but the look has changed.

If you prefer to browse [...] Continue Reading…

It seems like there are plugins to do almost everything except make coffee for the WordPress user these days.

Like people, some are right out in the front, visible to all of your visitors every time they log in; while others run quietly and unobtrusively in the background just making [...] Continue Reading…

This is part 2 of a 2 part series. In part 1, I looked at ways to watch the movies, music and television shows stored on our computer on a standard television screen.

More and more people are now storing music, movies and television shows in digital format and watching [...] Continue Reading…