Well you can just go fuck yourself, Internet Explorer…

01-28-2007

For those people that have been having trouble with accessing this site using Internet Explorer, I apologise. It didn’t like my plugin for the absolutely beautiful Flash headings that I had installed, so thanks a-fucking-lot Microsoft.

Anyway, if you’ve been using IE, welcome back. Sure, IE6 sucks, but IE7 has to be better, right? Because its got, like TABBED BROWSING and everyfink! No. IE still sucks arse and if you can, get Firefox.

But, alas, after many attempts to repair the problem and still keep my beloved Flash titles, no can do. Remember what I gave up for you as you read my blog and I hope you appreciate it. Because now the headlines look ugly :(

Ah well.

Welcome back nonetheless.

Ruby on Rails… I’m going to jump on that train…

01-21-2007

I apologise for this bit of ultra-nerd gushing, but I can barely contain my excitement.

I may be a little late to jump on the bandwagon, but I have recently discovered a great little (well not so little, actually extremely powerful) development application called Ruby on Rails.

It is open source, it is extremely powerful, and can create complex web applications easily and can turn months of development into weeks, maybe even days, depending on what you want to do with it.

I have been going through the Lynda.com (another fantabulous site that is well worth the $25US a month subscription) tutorials on Ruby on Rails development and I have to say — this is the sort of thing that is making the new web so exciting for developers. I am currently more of a PHP and Actionscript/Flash developer, but I think I might try and start incorporating Ruby on Rails a bit more. I cannot rave about this enough. These development frameworks really are on the cutting edge, and I cannot wait to see where it takes us.

I might even start experimenting with some web apps in the future… in fact I think ROR may be the exact thing I am looking for for my LinkArtistCMS. Very, very exciting.

All the newfangled stuff…

01-06-2007

Mina has pretty much unlimited access to the internet, where she plays on things like ABC Kids, Disney and EverythingGirl.com.

I was walking by her on the computer and she said”

“Mum, I am great at the DOT COMS”

heh.

Gee, you reckon?

01-06-2007

Next up: Hitting your head with a hammer causes a sore head.

Read the article here

Extract:

CHICAGO – Magazine headlines entice teenage girls with promises: “Get the body you want” and “Hit your dream weight now!” But a new study suggests reading articles about diet and weight loss could have unhealthy consequences later.

Teenage girls who frequently read magazine articles about dieting were more likely five years later to practice extreme weight-loss measures such as vomiting than girls who never read such articles, the University of Minnesota study found.