Archive for January, 2006

I got tagged by Vicki, so here goes:

Four jobs I have had:

• Gen­eral hand at cara­van park (trailer park) clean­ing toi­lets, col­lect­ing garbage etc.
• Fact­ory hand in paint fact­ory, put­ting lids on cans by hand
• Extra in a video clip
• Online Ser­vices Officer at DOCEP

Well I sur­vived the week­end in, with barely a scratch, other than a couple of close encoun­ters with the thorns on black­berry bushes that were over­hanging the trail in a couple of places and a grazed knee with the sil­li­est of get offs.

egoS­urf goes to the search engines ( google, yahoo, msn, tech­nor­ati and del.icio.us ) searches on your name and scores you on how many times your name is linked to your blog and how high it is in the search rank­ings. I ended up in the top 50 egos

This week­end I could fin­ished a num­ber of pro­ject I have on the go, like:

1. Tutorial on using scal­able buttons
2. Repla­cing the javas­cript for Recom­men­ded and Com­men­ted On that keeps cach­ing, by modi­fy­ing Word­Press and related bookmarklets
3. Fin­ish­ing sites for the Peel Dis­trict Moun­tain Bike Club and rebuild­ing Con­sumers Asso­ci­ation of WA site in WordPress

Instead I tak­ing my moun­tain bike and tent that I last used eight years ago for a road trip across the USA and going camp­ing in Dwell­inup with friends for some rid­ing and hope­fully some more riding.

More pho­tos of the Hoovers from a gig with the Dumb Angels and Franga, 14 Feb­ru­ary 1997 at the Shenton Park Hotel.

Note these three images are fairly big 100k each, so be warned

Michael who’s blog Some­thing Old Some­thing New has been sav­ing me the trouble of con­vert­ing some of my old local vinyl to mp3, let it slip that he use to play in the Hoovers, so here are a few pho­tos of the Hoovers in action at the Depot aka the Har­bourside on the 22nd Novem­ber 1996.

Note these three images are fairly big 100k each, so be warned

If you are vis­it­ing my blog instead on using the RSS feeds, you might have noticed a couple of addi­tions to the side­bar, Worth Read­ing and Com­men­ted On. This came about after read­ing a post over at Dexagogo titled
Using del.icio.us to track my blog comments

Update 15 Janu­ary: cach­ing is caus­ing a problem

The actual upgrade was quick and pain­less, the pain­ful bit was try­ing to sort out some IE inter­pret­a­tions of my CSS. Unlikely it was the upgrade to WP2 that caused the prob­lem, it was more likely the fact that I do not always check my changes in IE, today was the exception.

I have found a solu­tion to prob­lem with Word­Press 2.0 doing con­vert­ing uni­code such as > into >. It is turn off the rich text editor and the auto­mat­ic­ally cor­rect­ing HTML options in the pro­file sec­tion and make sure you select apply. Unfor­tu­nately with Safari 1.3 you get no visual clues as to whether the rich text editor is on or off…

For any­body who needs to know more about typo­graphy on the web, and that is any­body who works with HTML and CSS, you need to book­mark (or grab the RSS feed from) The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style Applied to the Web