Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Back

So it’s been a while since the last post. Sorry, but real life got in the way.
I need to post once a day to keep the momentum of this place happening, which clearly isn’t happening at the moment. Usually I’d give up, but… not this time.

I was feeling a touch depressed about all of it, when I found this:
http://www.lamachine.co.uk/

There is going to be another Elephant. Remember this?



It was the most awesome thing I’ve ever beheld. So I felt all inspired. Then I remembered that I’m going to be here (Australia) and it’s going to be there (UK). Oh well.

However there was enough inspiration to help me get a few things together. Namely, new hosting: vpsFarm. Now all I have to do is figure out what I’m going to put where, when it’ll be live, and how the hell I’m going to do it…

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

No drowning

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I think I’ve also written (or possibly read) that absinthe does similar things. The world works in mysterious ways, and there are great patterns everywhere.

Many of you would have seen the absence of posting on my behalf as another pattern re-establishing itself. You’d be right, but for the wrong reason. I did not write for the last few days because I was away in the mountains having a much-deserved break. So the pattern there is no internet or mobile signal = no posting, rather than writer is lazy = no posting.

While I was away, I thought many, many deep thoughts. Most of them were about killing all the myriad of ideas that I had for my online presence. So this is what I did when I got home. I killed a lot of half started projects.

I think a good project should run itself. If you don’t have the energy to complete something, then it’s probably not worth doing. Just like if a job is worth doing, it’s worth hiring a professional; this is not an option here, and I have no idea why I wrote it down. I think I may be slowly loosing my mind.

I have started on the great web redesign project with a great technology re-org at home. To assist in this I produced a crazy diagram to try to figure out what connects where, and how things should work. I got bored after a while, and now I realise I didn’t include the DS or PSP.



It’s very pretty. I like Visio, it gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing.

How does this link into any other work I’m doing? Well, it does have some vague relevance on what the front page will look like. Oh yes. Content: yes, graphic designer: no.

Friday, August 8, 2008

Photos

It’s questionable, this desire to put thing up in the public domain, but I have been known to be pretty questionable at times…

Today I finally got round to playing with our new camera. It certainly takes photos. We opted for DSC-T300 and I picked it up while I was in the UK over the last few weeks. Ah! What comedy that was.

For the company I ordered it from did not deliver it, and I had to get one from the airport. I had to get one because I spanked a lot of cash on accessories (I get excited about things like this). I am also yet to get the money back for the camera that never was.

Yes, not only that but Sony have gone and release new, faster, better cameras just after I laid down the green.

Fuckers.

However, this is about the internet and photos and stuff. Today I started a picasa account, and looked through my flickr account, seeing all the work I had to do to get things up to date there. I’m also seriously considering playing with windows live things.

Because I am going to spread the disease that is my web content everywhere. Oh yes.

Me@Flickr
Me@Picasa

Thursday, August 7, 2008

A plan

I’ve been absent from providing any meaningful content to the internet for some time… and by sometime I mean over a year. I know this because I remember thinking about various cunning plans revolving around a festival I was at a year ago last weekend.

A whole year.

That’s a year lost to stupid mySQL issues, terrible space related problems, and crazy scripts, annoying outages and most importantly no writing of the words.

The words are what it’s all about for me. I still harbor this crazy notion of writing things down and people enjoying the reading of them. I contemplate this notion often, so often that I forget to actually do, you know, the writing. That’s what this is about, well it’s sort of what it’s about.

I’m consolidating, moving, and setting up my web presence in order to move towards something… new. Something more. While I’m trying to pull this together, I’m going to write about my efforts, and a few other things, here.

Enjoy.