Web Women are breaking the Wednesday tradition for Christmas drinks this Friday: When: Friday 3rd Dec, from 5pm Where: Carnegies Bar & Restaurant 356 Murray St (cnr King St) Perth This is a great opportunity to come down and say … Continue reading
Runs In The Family
My brother now has a blog. It seems that geekiness runs in my family. He’s more of a geek than me, though… no, really! The Linux references give him away – and the link to Slashdot, hmm (that link hover … Continue reading
Views Are Cool
SQL Views are way cool. It’s not that I didn’t know what they were or how they worked. I just never actually saw a need to implement one until this week. But now I have, and I’ve realised they’re even … Continue reading
Fixed Width Feels Funny
Or, why I still haven’t changed the look of this site yet. I had a new design ready to go. It used a funky photo I took and some funky colours as well as a more elegant and subtle design. … Continue reading
Accessibility and Geekiness
Last night, I was sitting back on the couch watching TV in the dark with two sleeping kittens on my lap – exhausted after a rousing hour or so of devouring boiled chicken then running around the couch jumping on … Continue reading
Setting Up Dreamweaver MX 2004
I’m a software tweaker, I admit it. I like digging in options dialogs – in many applications they’re chock full of extra functionality and cool time-saving techniques. Dreamweaver MX 2004’s Preferences dialog is no exception – it hides heaps of … Continue reading
Rule Number One
Never write in your blog that you’re going to do something, in case you don’t get around to finishing it. In this case, self-inflicted peer pressure had no effect. I did not update my site layout and add new features … Continue reading
Today’s the day
Ouch. In a rare (yeah right!) moment of clutziness, I dropped a heavy bowl on my knee last night. The sequence of events might have been that I dropped the bowl and tried to catch it with my knee, but … Continue reading