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Sydney Tomorrow

Baines — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:02:03 +0000

I’m leaving for Sydney tomorrow to attend Co-Opp 5.
Should be fun!

Speaking of Co-Opp, I’ve been working on the site for the past week finishing everything off. The contact page for example has probably been “coming soon” for about two years now. I figured it was about time we put something on there
I made a pretty sweet 404 page too

All software across the website is now fully integrated and working aces. The templates have been written to accommodate for easy updating, so hopefully there shouldn’t be any surprisingly horrible looking profile pages or anything when we update next time.
The only part I’m currently not happy with is the article comments. They were designed based on the previous look of the forum, so I’m thinking about updating them to reflect the new forum look a bit more.

I’ve also fixed some minor bugs here and there around this website and made sure every thing’s working properly in IE8. I also added some tweaks for IE9 and webkit browsers. I have no intention of removing the warning for IE6/7 or supporting those browsers in any way.
I started playing around with alternate stylesheets for slightly different looks. My coding is freakin’ awesome so it’s really easy to create new colour schemes and so forth. I might chuck a few together and put some colour switches opposite the search bar or something.

A small freelance job I did over the holidays went live this week, Technical Urethanes, a small South Australian plastics company.

In other news, I found my twenty-third hat in Team Fortress 2 the other day.

I go back to work fulltime on Monday

PC Powerplay: Now with 60% more Baines!

Baines — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:18:26 +0000

PC Powerbaines

Thanks to White Falcon for pointing this out to me.
An article running in the January 2010 issue of PC Powerplay features a screenshot from the best person in the world, me.

To the right is a scan of the article by White Falcon. Here is the blog post in which the screenshot was taken from.

Woes of a Web Designer

Baines — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:13:24 +0000

“I don’t have the internet.”

Stupid terms

Baines — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:37:59 +0000

I was asked recently if I believed in “Climate Change”.
I said, “Yes, yes I do. It was warm yesterday, and today it is quite chilly. There are quite obvious differences in climate between Summer and Winter, not to mention differences between places closer to the equator and those further from it and they each have their own varying climate changes depending on the time of year. So yes, I believe in ‘Climate Change.’”
I was then promptly told I had “no fucking clue what I was talking about” and to “read a newspaper sometime.” I told them to read a fucking dictionary.
What happened to “Global Warming”? Why did people stop using that term? Was it not PC enough? Was it not ambiguous enough? Seriously. Global Warming is pretty straight-to-the-point. How climate change suddenly became a replacement is beyond me.

A similar thing happened in High School when I was asked if I believed in “Intelligent Design.”
After thinking on it for a few minutes I came back to him and told him I did, believing full well that intelligent design just meant a logical and well structured design.
In my defence I’m not religious at all. I had no idea what the term had been stolen and molested in to.

Can we all agree right now to stop using stupid terms like these? I’ll be your friend on Facebook if you do.

Quake LIVE

Baines — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:22:02 +0000

Quake Live Live

Work productivity: 0

Weather

Baines — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:50:41 +0000

Adelaide Heat Wave

Is gay.

Woes of a Web Designer

Baines — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:30:50 +0000

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

Australian Work Ethic

Baines — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:43:49 +0000

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!

I won Solitaire!

Baines — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:33:01 +0000

fun

Work is so much more interesting when things stop working.

23

Baines — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:15:16 +0000

Happy birthday to me.
Iâ€™m a hundred and three.
Something something I donâ€™t like your face.
THE END.

I wasn’t going to post this but it’s become sort of a tradition.