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Alternate Stylesheet

Friday, November 1st, 2002

Heh, I’ve added an alternate stylesheet to my site. You’ll need Mozilla to view it – go View > Use Style. If you’re using IE, the glutnix chicken logo and the webfroot network button will be gifs, otherwise they will be 32bit alpha’d PNG files. The CSS controls the checkers and the background image, as well as the colours. Rather simple really.

UPDATE: Added a ‘toggle alternate stylesheet‘ link at the bottom of the side – click to switch to the alternate stylesheet for the rest of the session. Might switch to cookies instead of session though.

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Somes Island

Tuesday, October 29th, 2002

Monday was a public holiday here in New Zealand. In Wellington Harbour there’s this Island called Matiu/Somes Island. It’s just out there in the middle of the harbour and not many people really know what it’s all about. So I went out there by myself and had a look. (more…)

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Why ACDsee is better than IrfanView IMHO

Saturday, October 26th, 2002

ACDsee is better than IrfanView IMHO because IrfanView has the worst icon(s) ever. I think if IrfanView changed his icon, his product would be better. Honestly, A red splot does not inspire me. ACDsee’s icons with the file extension written in the icon make so much more sense. Only problem is ACDsee isn’t free. Oh, and ACDsee has lots of cool editing features too… If I was to buy it, I’d buy the powerpack.

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Trillian Meta-contacts

Saturday, October 26th, 2002

Just out of a complete and utter fluke I’ve discovered Meta-contacts. I’m using trillian pro, so i don’t know if this is in .74

Say I have a friend who uses several IM protocols, like Peach, she’s on ICQ, AIM, MSN, and YahooMsgr. I just highlight all of her IM contacts, right click and choose Create Meta-contact. It will then ask you for a contact name. Type it, choose a group, and click OK. All those contacts will now be grouped into one contact. If you always chat on one particular protocol, like I always chat with Peach on MSN, drag that contact to the top of the meta-contact list.

Why use meta-contact? Well when you don’t have that user selected in your contact list, it automatically collapses into one contact. Select it, it opens up again. Also, double click the meta contact, and you’ll get your default protocol (the top one in the list). If the user is offline in the default protocol, the next online protocol down is used.

Can someone tell me if this tip work in Trillian .74? I’m thinking not, but could be wrong.

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Insani-Scooter

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

I’m borrowing Jeremie’s foot-scooter. I’m like this bullet on the footpaths now. I love it. It’s like probably 5-10 times faster than walking. It’s actually kinda a little exercise… I got kinda sweaty after making a run to dymocks and back ; 15 minutes one way on foot, 3 minutes on the scooter.

Some bad things though: Hard wheels have no shock absorbsion, so all the little cracks in the pavement, not to mention the numerous cobblestone areas around Wellington go straight into my ankles. If I was to buy my own one, it’d have to have tires or shock absorbers.

Edit: Removed the link to Jeremie’s website – seems he’s using it for a test platform for another site.

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