Posted on 26 February 2010 | No responses
Regular readers (all three of you!) may have noticed the recent appearance of advertising in my sidebar.
For the longest time, I was strongly against showing any form of advertising on this site. Partly because I just don’t like it, and partly because the site doesn’t really look that big. [...] Continue Reading…
Posted on 25 February 2010 | No responses
When I first moved here from the warmth of Australia, I really wasn’t looking forward to the winter season. Coming from a place that had just two seasons, warm and not-so-warm, it rarely got anywhere close to freezing temperature!
I slowly began to enjoy winter after I learned how [...] Continue Reading…
Posted on 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…
Posted on 28 January 2010 | 2 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…
Posted on 21 July 2009 | 14 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…
Posted on 7 May 2009 | No responses
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.
Posted on 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…
Posted on 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…
Posted on 16 April 2009 | 101 responses
Following is the history, comments and questions for version 1.0.x of the SubtleFlux Theme for Wordpress.
Version 1.0.3 – 3 February 2010
Minor adjustments to CSS to correct header display
Added support for posts with multiple pages
Version 1.0.2 – 16 June 2009
Minor adjustments to code for XHTML compliance
Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 2.8
Version [...] Continue Reading…
Posted on 16 April 2009 | 1 response
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…
