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A summary of everything I don’t like about Facebook

29 January 2010 | No responses

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…

Hmmmm… iPad?

28 January 2010 | No responses

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…

Simple Notepad theme for WordPress

21 July 2009 | 13 responses

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…

Reflection on a New Day

7 May 2009 | No responses

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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.

I recommend CSSEdit for tweaking stylesheets

4 May 2009 | No responses

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…

Is MySQL doomed?

22 April 2009 | No responses

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…

SubtleFlux theme for WordPress

16 April 2009 | 69 responses

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…

Now optimized for iPhone

10 April 2009 | No responses

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…

5 Absolutely Necessary WordPress plugins

8 April 2009 | 2 responses

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…

Digital Home Entertainment, part 2

7 April 2009 | 1 response

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…

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