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This was going to be a happy 2008 post but half way through February makes it a bit late for that, and I’m not going to make it a Valentine’s Day (”You’ll Do” day) themed post. So anyway, what’s news here then?
The significant other and I are still living it large in London-town. We’ve […]
Time sure has flown for me. For the most part, it’s been a spectacular year…
A short list of highlights (and the odd low point):
Travelling through 11 countries spanning four continents (so far)
Scuba diving in Thailand and Vietnam
Like, pretty much all of Mexico
Having my laptop stolen in Peru
Still in Peru, kicking arse on the Inca Trail […]
I’ve just been moving server over the past couple of days, all should be up on the new location, complete with a much more generous bandwidth limit as well as a more generous disk space and mailbox size, and hopefully slightly faster.
During the name server change over, I’ve had to slightly reconfigure my blog database […]
Time goes by, we get a little older. We travel through 4 continents, we move to other countries and get new jobs.
This blog sees another year… yes that’s 3 years of half-arsed blogging.
It’s August again…
(And I *did* get that redesign done!)
The new site is up and in time for the Nov 1 Reboot!
I’m still ironing out the odd issue here and there, but it’s pretty much all there so have a squiz about the place…
A few features:
Much more customised Wordpress implementation, different page templates rather than the usual Wordpress one size-fits-all approach
Liquid/elastic layout. The layout […]
I was just browsing through the archives here and just realised that Gradient Dropshadow Curve turned 2 this month. (Note to self: redesign due!)
That’s 2 years of blogging. What have I learned? Probably not a lot other than comment spam never sleeps…
I’m yet to figure out much about the audience of this site. What sort […]
The long hard road to an overhaul has begun.
I have had a few stop-starts on a redesign for Gradient Dropshadow Curve. The latest stop sees me leaving the design aside for a while and looking into technology, specifically, upgrading Wordpress. Actually the real reason is the unrelenting barrage of comment-spam I get on this site […]
So I turn 30 tomorrow. I guess you can call that some kind of milestone. Time to sit back and take stock of one’s life? Or stop and reflect on where one’s been and where one is going?
Nah… time for celebration, drinking up with friends and enjoying the present. Just another birthday really, but one […]
Just a quick note to say good night and good luck to Mitch (who is moving to Germany), and farewell Salacious Crumb. Thanks for the rocking gig on Saturday. My ears are still ringing, I think I need to see a doctor.
Congratulations to my good friends Monster Gale along with Hung Donkey and of course […]
I have a paradoxical situation on my hands. I know I don’t post nearly enough here. Yet I also know that I have interesting dialogues with interesting people and find weird and interesting things on the web all the time.
So, in a bold yet somewhat predictable move, I am going to change my posting policy […]
Just about every other day, I get a request for freelance web design work. I’m not personally taking on any at the moment, full-time work plus the odd side-project is really quite enough… but I do get asked if I know anyone else interested. Most of my good buddies that I used to pass work […]
We are all familiar with one of the major issues of today, facing the city of Sydney and many other places. Yet it is one that is given little media coverage and therefore minimal public debate. I’m speaking of home invasion, invasions that happen every day. They happen at night, in our sleep, and the […]
I’ve just returned from a 10 day holiday at peaceful Safety Beach, where I got plenty of sun, good food, wine and sleep. I also enjoyed my first bee sting. At least I think it was a bee, the little bastard.
I want to talk about branding and good customer experience, and the good experience I […]
Here we go, another “browser upgrade initiative” or “Get the world on Firefox” campaign. This one is Explorer Destroyer. I love Firefox as much as the next guy, but come on, are web standards really about saying “sorry, you use Internet Explorer, which is not compatible with my site - get Browser X”.
Sorry, but […]
After the Boxing Day Tsunami, where the Red Cross reported that the massive global donor response provided half the required relief funds within the first week after the disaster, and the press provided coverage of the disaster for weeks to follow, it seems the Australian mainstream press, and thus the Australian public, have too soon […]
Been a bit quiet around these parts of late, been busy with work - we just recently launched KFC Australia’s new site. Plus I’ve had a major obsession with World of Warcraft for the last 6 months but that’s another post…
But never fear I have lots of new stuff coming soon. Some minor redesign, […]
I’ve had enough of verbal phone spam from Bangalore. Here’s the typical scenario for me:
Just coming out of a snooze after eating Portuguese BBQ chicken and potato salad
Phone rings. Decide whether to answer. Note to self: if I hesitate and think twice, trust instincts and don’t answer - there’s always voicemail or other more civilized […]
Am back now from a refreshing trip to Vic. Two huge weekends in Melbourne and Daylesford with a relaxing detox week in quiet Paynesville in between. Back to the rat-race…
Well I’m off work and pissing off down to Melbourne for a bit to catch up with friends, family and gatecrash the odd wedding. Back in a week, maybe with some happy snaps…
Ok so I’m home now after the first day of WE04 and admitedly a little drunk.
I must say I’ve enjoyed the presentations and having a drink with the folks behind them, specifically Doug Bowman (Stop Design), Dave Shea (Mezzoblue, CSS Zen Garden), John Allsop (Westciv) and the rest of the crew. Good also […]
Sorry I’ve been slack with the updates this week. Work has been way busy. Business has really picked up this year, as a lot of you from around my neck of the woods will agree…
New section added to the site, an archive for links so they don’t disappear into the ether once they drop […]
Woo! Today is the day that Gradient Dropshadow Curve comes out from hiding away in a staging location to live and public proper (although the omniscient Mr Google managed to find it anyway).
I have to sift through and manually fix some of the links in some previous posts so they work and fix the […]
I’ve just added in a new section “Work” to the site in the last few days. Just a small showcase of what I’ve been up to for the past couple of years in terms of paid work. A mini-portfolio, if you will. Had to brush up with my JS/DOM scripting to make the image changer […]
It’s been one week since installing WordPress as my blog engine, and I’ve tweaked the source, reskinned and renamed it. My significant other has been out of town for the weekend, and though tempted to sit in front of the TV, drinking beer and scratching myself, I decided to devote some time to properly designing […]
So I’ve got a bit of a long weekend happening at the moment. Monday off for a day in lieu for doing crazy hours at work. Anyway, going to have a big day all over town tomorrow.
But in the meantime, I’ve decided to set up WordPress and join the ranks of the blogging […]
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