Archive for the 'Online' Category

Just a minor update to the site design with a narrower and cleaner layout. I decided to update my old “sunrise from a 747″ photo that I’ve used as the header for a while now (taken in Feb 2000 on the return flight from my first ever overseas trip!)
The photo I’m now using was taken [...]

People who know me won’t be surprised that I like the TV show Numb3rs.
I also love the Apple “PC vs Mac” adverts.
… so I was quite amused with this video of a promo for the show which takes off the PC vs Mac concept:

I have been very busy of late with coding changes to my various website - particularly my forums InvestEd and ZooBeat.
Earlier this week I was horrified to discover that somehow the font had changed for the display of some of the code display in the vBulletin admin area (specifically the template editor). It was now a fuzzy [...]

I host a website for a friend and colleague who runs a small business.
Rather than deleting or ignoring emails that are incorrectly addressed (as most email services would), I prefer to redirect them all to a postmaster account, which I check periodically for emails. Most of them are spam - randomly generated usernames and such [...]

I just had a Telstra technician (a real Telstra guy - not a contractor) come and fix my phone line.
What seems to have happened is that the technicians who originally came out to fix our neighbour’s problems got confused with the network layout. The cabling that runs up the street is very old (60+ years the Telstra guy [...]

Walked over to Chatswood today for some last minute Christmas lunch shopping (Leanne is doing a couple of roasts and her sister is coming over for lunch).
We also stopped in at a couple of the travel gear stores to look for waterproof jackets and fleeces - and some other tops for Leanne. Leanne also needs [...]

Telstra didn’t show up yesterday to fix the problem they caused on Monday. I still have no phone line and hence no internet connection. To make matters worse I have been crook and don’t have the energy to go out to get online.
Telstra tell me today that they have rescheduled us until Thusday next week [...]

I’ve just finished the first version of my new website: Compare Funds - Managed Fund Comparison Charts and Statistics.
Sorry to everyone I’ve ignored over the last couple of weeks - it’s been pretty intense trying to get this ready by today - a LOT of late nights!
There is still a lot more work to do [...]

I was going so well with regular blogging - even if it was just posting photos.
… and then I got caught up with the building of my new website (I won’t link to it yet - it’s not quite ready for launch).
The problem with developing a complex website where there is a lot of programming [...]

A friend of mine who is a dental professional liked the work I was doing on InvestEd and figured that it would be a great idea to do something similar for dentists. So he pestered me until I agreed to build a site with him - given that there was virtually nothing out there for [...]