dbaines's Blog urn:uuid:b7b6a183-a7ee-2098-587d-60731012f8c9 2009-11-21T21:04:00-05:00 dbaines Quake LIVE urn:uuid:a94e0839-8b4b-45a0-6f87-e9cd126e81db Work productivity: 0

]]> 2009-02-24T22:22:02-05:00 Weather urn:uuid:0853ec2a-9e20-5c21-4f68-2a25ee903a57 Adelaide Heat Wave

Is gay.

]]> 2009-01-28T17:50:41-05:00 New Old Themes: Dioxide, Resurgence and DoTheMario urn:uuid:9257e937-3d8b-8179-3a6c-80c7e3d63d2e 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 :P

]]> 2008-12-13T02:07:23-05:00 New Theme: Dragon2009 urn:uuid:3882548c-dd7c-2f03-7b6a-26c0d5266867 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 to port some of the old themes over but most of my time is taken up by Co-Opp and work.

Update: Fixed the theme-not-carrying-over-to-the-art-gallery bug. It was an issue with the new(ish) version of the theme-switcher plugin that was defining the cookie path as /blog/ rather than /.

]]> 2008-12-06T02:56:29-05:00 Woes of a Web Designer urn:uuid:d3511ea2-9d5e-f513-225e-0dcccf7e42aa Bad Photos make a Bad Website 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 :(

]]> 2008-11-26T17:30:50-05:00 Australian Work Ethic urn:uuid:4dd98369-adb9-9259-480c-00ec4cc7df91 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!

]]> 2008-11-24T19:43:49-05:00 Google and Adobe are ruining the world urn:uuid:d78728cb-ed39-fe06-cf08-b22b166b7bed 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.

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 I wanted it to be accessible from anywhere. If I knew this was just going to be a proxy for the real setup I would have just run it from my temp files after it had finished downloading. I chose to save the file so I could use it anywhere and any time. Now I need to be attached to the internet just to install your stupid browser that nobody takes seriously anyway. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, this is Google after all, not exactly king of the software realm. Unfortunately though, they aren’t the only ones that do this.

Dear developers: Stop it. Just stop it. It’s not clever. It’s not cool. It’s stupid and you’re stupid for thinking it’s any good. Just quit it.

]]> 2008-11-17T05:36:58-05:00 I won Solitaire! urn:uuid:46a351a7-e035-9982-311f-67495b230be2 fun fun Work is so much more interesting when things stop working.

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