Archive for April, 2006
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
My Firefox extensions
Firefox is a much better browser than MS Internet Explorer. It has lots of little benefits for me:
Tabbed browsing
More standards compliant
Easier to develop in
Better bookmark management
and there are plenty more. But the main benefit is the extensions. The things that you can do with them are amazing. Literally changing your browser into whatever you want [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Technical by jon
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Word Press Challenge Manager Plugin
Challenge Manager is now ready for public use. It is currently being used on selfPortraitChallenge and Whipup.
If you are happy with using this plugin, please link back to me on your blog, and put your address in the comments. I'll add a blog entry soon listing all the people that are using it.
Please put [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Technical, WordPress by jon
Thursday, April 27th, 2006
Switching my parents to Ubuntu
Well, it turned out to be remarkably simple to switch my not very technically adept parents from Windows XP to Ubuntu (Breezy Badger). We did this on the basis that it was getting increasingly difficult to manage their computer difficulties from Melbourne, and their Windows XP installation was incredibly spamware and adware ridden.
So at [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Family, Technical by jon
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Grandma at Easter
Liam spent some time with Grandma in Canberra at Easter
No Comments » - Posted in Family, Liam by jon
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
A Tricky family update - 13 weeks into parenthood
We love being parents to Liam more and more each day. He continues to surprise and delight us with his ever emerging personality. Gone is the redness of his newborn skin; his skin is now a pale chickeny colour, so I have started to call him chicken chop.Overall, I still think he's pretty [...]
