Resource Pile July 11, 2008

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Kerplunc has just launched a new website - Resource Pile, a blog dedicated to posting about all sorts of excellent resources including the classic icon sets, photoshop brushes, textures & etc. All wrapped in a design by me :): Check out Resource Pile!

From the Sunshine State July 1, 2008

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It’s all overcast. Here I am for two weeks by the beachside, boiling in the lovely warm (super-insanely-hot) sun and humid atmosphere. A time to forget the world at home and relax. And, of course, use the free wifi for coding and design development by the beach! </update>

Firefox has outdone itself June 19, 2008

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Surprise, surprise (well, not really), Firefox has reached and surpassed it’s 5-million download goal, with 8-million downloads! Thats about 83,000GB (83TB) of data, which is an insane amount.

More importantly, Firefox 3 immediately as gained a 4% market share, right on day one (source: TechCrunch). Perhaps this could be the exciting end to IE, and finally Firefox will begin to increase in proportion to IE, and then finally, Firefox will take over as the most popular browser. Silly IE.

It’s over! Finally :) June 2, 2008

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I had 5 and a quarter hours of exams today, and now, at long last, it’s all over. Woot!

Exams crush blogs May 20, 2008

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Strictly that’s not entirely true, while a lot of my time is currently consumed by these horrible AS-Level things, I’m spending some time (probably way too much) working on various projects. Bookmarks is one, it’s now possible to use a link in the favorites-bar of whatever browser to link a website, and a one click version will soon be finished. More importantly, Fanatical Host has launched, nice cheap webhosting, with a backend billing/support system build soley by me! I’ve never coded something so complicated in PHP before, and it’s turned out pretty nice.

Another project is Host Scout, where you can read lots of nice reviews and news all about hosting, to help you choose a web host. Of course, this is NOT related to Fanatical Host other than the same people made it, in fact, we don’t have any reviews on it.

Lastly, and most importantly, is Kerplunc and our new design. Currently we’re down to two members, and I’m the only coder, so I’m doing all the html/css/php and mysql code, hence a serious slow down in activity. The new (planned) design can be found here, with the “about” and “creations” links working. We’ve had good feedback so far from the few people we’ve asked.

Anyway, I guess thats it!

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Sustained visitors and (finally) a new PC May 3, 2008

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When I say finally in the title, I mean it. A whole week with no gaming (well, minus the Wii). I guess productivity did rise 400%, and work hours increased 10-fold, but I wasn’t gaming, and that is what counts, I think. So, a new machine for me, but no more money either. For the geeks, here’s the specs:

I’m pretty pleased with it, took a few hours to build it all, then I thought it broke. Of course, I had stupidly forgotten that motherboards actually have two power plugs, the 24pin and the 4pin. *silly me*

AS-Levels are in a few weeks, so it’s work, work and more work at the moment, but I’ll still be around.

In other news, it seems this blog has picked up sustained visitors! It’s off the front page of BestWebGallery (whom gave me 5000+ visits), and the uniques have dropped off significantly, BUT, they now seem to have levelled off at a very nice value of ~200, much more than I’ve ever seen before. Perhaps CSS gallerys can bring returning visitors. We shall see…

I’m a bad blogger April 14, 2008

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I really am quite terrible, where are the posts & updates?! I guess I could moan about being busy, but thats pathetic. Normal rambling rubbish shall return soon!

Introducing: Sketch March 15, 2008

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That’s the name of the new design. Sketch.

I’ve been procrastinating for way to long to get this done, but it’s finally here. Out of all my design work I have ever done, this site has been the most complicated in code and the most taxing in design. I’m not a photoshop geek, in fact I normally skip photoshop in my ‘design’ process. Unfortunately, to create the look I was after, photoshop was needed.

Anyway, this is Sketch, and Sketch is my ‘Sketchpad’ on which I will ramble pointlessly, show of stuff I create and base my personal website. Design wise, I attempted to create something with all the sketchy/grungy/crazy feel I wanted, but without limiting the site or user in any way. The final issue was, of course, load times. I believe the images come to a total of 500kb, although some aren’t optimized and that value could probably be reduced, but is 500kb a lot with broadband speeds rocketing beyond 10mb these days? No, but the better quality images are worth it. The awesome looking writing is a font called ‘Pointy’ which can be found and downloaded free here.

That’s all I can really say on the new design, other than I hope you enjoy it, and, if you find any errors with my WordPress hackery, please tell me!

Pointless Ramblings is back!