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January 19, 2006

DOM Flickr Badge

Take one Patrick. Add in a dash of a question. Throw in a large splash of feeling like doing something. It slices, it dices, it inserts your (or someone elses) latest flickr photos into your page using absolutely no document.write()...

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January 19, 2006 10:27 AM. Filed in .

December 28, 2005

My Favourite Photographers

I found myself sitting on the couch this afternoon. This is not, in and of itself, unusual. I can often be found sitting on a couch. Except when I'm at work where despite my repeated explanations of why a couch...

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October 19, 2005

Weblog Usability

Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes: how many can you violate today? My take is: I have a bio (+), in fact I have a site dedicated to it: introducing Patrick No photo on the bio (-), but there...

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January 16, 2005

What's going on?

Today saw the removal of WordPress and the the pushing of Rebuild Site in MovableType to build the new "Patrick's Soapbox". Things are a little messy around here, and the reasoning behind the move will not yet be apparent to...

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August 23, 2004

Design and Other Madness

If you have been following this blog for any time at all (and if you haven't, welcome), you'll probably be aware that I'm the type of person who changes the design more often than most. I have a problem, that...

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August 06, 2004

Site Changes

Just a quick update tonight. Slate-1.2 is now in progress (You can set your preferences to preview it). I quite like it so far. Added two new sets of photos: donald's wiphone and wandering around wellington. Slate-1.1 uses the US...

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August 02, 2004

New Sidebar

Today I implemented a new sidebar for my site. I've kind of wanted a way of listing movies I've seen (without filling a whole entry), and also a neat way of displaying the Question of the Day entries. It's done...

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July 13, 2004

Quick Updates

The Grandstream Budgetone has been sold, however the surfboard and the wetsuit are still up for grabs. Help out a poor student a discover your water sports attraction today! (Perhaps it might be best to buy now, and discover said...

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June 15, 2004

On Searching This Site

For the entire time I've had a b2/wordpress blog the search function that they provided was available. With the move to wordpress (and the Slate design) the Search function got a page to itself. This was good. It had nice...

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June 11, 2004

Reading Syndication

When faced with the first day when I had absolutely nowhere to be for over 24 hours in over 3 months, I had planned to tidy and organise. Guess how much of that happened. (I'll give you a hint: none.)...

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June 09, 2004

Covering up the gaps

I've started work on a kind of plugin for my site to facilitate using MarkDown encoded text files for pages on my site. It works at the moment on my internal testing site (setup just for the purpose of testing...

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June 08, 2004

Introducing Slate

Why hello there. Today I (yet again) changed the design of my site, it is now running Slate. It may, or may not, work in Internet Explorer (it should, I haven't changed anything that would break IE. That I know...

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June 04, 2004

Wordpress the new b2

I installed WordPress 1.2 today, initially in it's own little test bed, and pushed all of my b2 entries into it. Amazingly this basically worked (I had to go into the database and manually set my base URL - as...

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June 01, 2004

Updated view

I finally got sick of the look of comments on my site/my LJ. I have remedied this situation. It however does not work in Internet Explorer for some god damn unknown reason. So you don't get them. I have created...

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May 18, 2004

On MovableType

I have been toying around with MovableType 3.0. I've set it up on darren (the linux server that isn't carl), and it's ok. (see it here.) I know lots of people have been criticising it recently, mainly for licensing moves,...

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May 11, 2004

New Design

Um, yeah. "coolzen" has now been pushed through as the default theme on my site(s). All working here, there's a bug in the template that affects Internet Explorer uses while using viewing photogallery pages, but I will fix that some...

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May 03, 2004

No more comment spam!

Well, who knows if it will work or not, I don't. From now on on my blog (not on LiveJournal), you will not be shown the comment form unless you go to Preferences and click the "I am a human"...

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April 30, 2004

Comment Spam

I am getting slowly annoyed with comment spam. I don't get a lot, maybe one every few days. It's easy to delete, but that's not the point. I have a solution. I could make it a "preference" that you are...

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March 17, 2004

Autumn 2004

I decided it was time for a slight overhaul for the site style. So I added a drop shadow glow effect. Now it looks new and fresh again, which makes me happy. That really is all I have to say...

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February 03, 2004

Not again

Um, my site got another face lift. It's still style79, but never mind. That's life, I say....

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January 26, 2004

New Style

I started work on style style79 today. But the logo is made of around 2,214 little boxes. I made the mistake of trying to change all of their borders to a differnet colour. At the same time. Without saving the...

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January 11, 2004

Welcome bluewall

Just now I release the newest design for my site/LJ/everywhere. It is now affectionately known as bluewall. Why? Because I came up with the codename before I actually made the style. It didn't start out blue, but it bizzarely enough...

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January 08, 2004

The Engine

As an amazing first an engine that has powered my site has actually lasted in production on pftqg.com (and now patrick.geek.nz) for into it's third year. Well, ok, it landed in late 2002, but it has lasted through 2003 and...

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January 06, 2004

B2 Hacking

I hacked in yet another fix to my b2 setup tonight. Now you can post comments (I, uh, had to point the URL to a file that actually existed), and I can actually do trackbacks (the URL given to the...

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November 13, 2003

More Hacks

Well, patrick.geek.nz now has my blog. (Through some mod_rewrite rules almost any http://pftqg.com/blog/ request should up in the right place on the new engine.) /> It's still b2, though it's URL's and it's archive browsing would not make it at...

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November 12, 2003

How bizzare

I found an interesting site today, href="http://www.patrick.geek.nz/">patrick.geek.nz. I also went into town with DamoK, and hung around Caltex, like the crazy person that I am. I don't think I actually scared any customers. Probably not. shrug anyway. /> I saw...

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November 03, 2003

Um, geeky. (as I'm going to carolina

Last night I worked, and had amusing prank calls. Today (being Sunday) I have done very little, but that is just me. Tonight (still being Sunday, but heading into Monday) I decided to make a new CSS file for my...

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October 21, 2003

text/xml-newstyle

Wow. Today I discovered a piece on the Apple site about PHP, and on that page about parsing XML (there for the sake of demonstration reading an iTunes library xml file. My 4.1mb library file took a while to load...)...

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October 01, 2003

Things and what not

I updated my portal, made it look prettier. /> I went places, and it rained. I finished my GST return, and don't owe billions of dollars. /> I spoke to the IRD, and I don't owe them billions of dollars...

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August 04, 2003

Introducing MasterKey

While Towel is still not complete (and as I discovered today, may have to be renamed, but that may not be the case), work has more been placed on MasterKey (which is yet to have a brouchure site of any...

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July 14, 2003

Towel makes its debut ...

Hey everybody Tomorrow school starts again, which is ok, because I'm ready to go back to having stuff to do, although i've just starting making Towel, my new CMS idea. Now, what is different about Towel, you might ask. Well,...

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May 26, 2003

DNS and down time.

Wow. I transferred primary dns servers for soapbox.co.nz from ns[1-3].snap.net.nz to ns[16,18].zoneedit.com midday (I posted not longer after I did it). It now resolves through zoneedit. How is it did it this time, but every other time it's been a...

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May 19, 2003

Happy happy, land the trees

I just landed: The new design for pftqg.com, and hence also for my livejournal. I think it looks funky, but hey, feel free to comment, and like say comment or, be horrible, or something. (Actually, you don't have to be...

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May 18, 2003

Sate of the Union

I decided that the default vhost on 203.79.110.59 needed a bit of spunk, so I made a nicer Host Not Found message, it's 'default' file actually does some host name checking of it's own, so that I can do host-redirect's...

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May 13, 2003

Me on PHP

a iBooks screenshot. I also updated both pftqgbase.class and the photogallery script to handle this kind of url. So, now instead of going http://photos.pftqg.com/random?img=4, I say http://photos.pftqg.com/random/(4)/. Incidentally if you try and use ?img=4 it just redirects itself to /(4)/...

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May 04, 2003

Me, on CSS layouts

For over a year now I've stuck to doing CSS only sites for all of my designs, including the one I used for soapbox (no longer active, but linked for the sake of showing the resultant page). As for incompatabilities...

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March 24, 2003

To Live Another Hour

I have decided LifTP ain't so bad after all. Despite flauting the Apple HIG's, it provides you with 'use aqua look', so you can get rid of the brush metal look, and, wo and behold, it starts looking like a...

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Soapbox.co.nz

Tonight I made a really really hard decision. I closed soapbox.co.nz. It's bizzare the emotional attachment you get to something so intagible, so 0 and 1ish, but I do. I feel sad. Soapbox has been 'that thing that I've done'...

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March 11, 2003

Google, A Can of Worms, and The

Did the usual ego booster... searching google for me :-) Funny things: First result is pftqg.com. This is really good - my own site is usually #3 on the list at the highest. Second result is http://go.pftqg.com/evillaughter. I only use...

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March 04, 2003

I

Did some work on my existing design, which thanks to the wonders of CSS automagically propogated itself to LJ (well, more specifically, LJ uses my stylesheet). I've also added a cool feature (though this won't be in LJ for a...

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