Yearly Archives: 2008
2008
New Old Themes: Dioxide, Resurgence and DoTheMario
I’ve brought back my three favourite themes from the pre-wordpress 2.0 days.
As always, available on the customise page.
These are legacy themes, if they don’t work in your browser on your system, I don’t really care 
2008
New Theme: Dragon2009
dragon2009
Here’s a new theme for my website that I’ve been working on for the past few days. It’s available by clicking on Customise, and then selecting Dragon2009.
Unfortunately due to upgrading to the latest Zenphoto a while back, themes aren’t carried over any more, so when you go to the Art page(s) it will revert back to Breeze2008. Hopefully I can get that fixed up this weekend.
There aren’t really any new features built specifically in to this design except for the fact that it’s fluid width, so people with widescreens won’t get 5 square kilometres of white space on each side when looking at the site.
I’ve been meaning
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2008
Woes of a Web Designer
Woe No!
I make a beautiful website design for these people and what do they give me? Terrible, terrible photos! Then they call up saying that they don’t like their images. What the hell do you want me to do about it? It’s so depressing 
2008
Australian Work Ethic
Christmas Tree in the middle of Adelaide
Erect a tree in the middle of Victoria Square and don’t decorate it. Doing us proud, Australia!
2008
Google and Adobe are ruining the world
Back in August I blogged about something that really pisses me off: When applications install in to your C drive regardless of where you tell it to install.
Another thing that is similar and just as heinous is when you download a program, run the installer and then the installer downloads another installer. Again.
Ruination
If this isn’t the installer, what is it? An installer for the installer? Redundant much?
I could give a flying fuck if you want me to have the latest version. Create an auto-updater for your software if you want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. I downloaded the setup file because
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