Patrick's Soapbox

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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I registered m.ac.nz a couple of weeks ago, had nothing to do with it so thought "I'll use it for experiments. So, here's the first. Experiment A. It's a slideshow of my photos with the tag favourite (though I can...

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I haven't done a post in a while, and in fact posting has been really quite rare for the last 3 months or so. There is a really good reason for this. I've been working 58 hour weeks, which I'm...

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I'm of the opinion that the only real way to learn a language is to actually have something to code in it. So I've finally actually written something in Cocoa that, well, does something. This is not to say I...

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I haven't been doing much programming in the last week (with the exception of the html/css for the Colophon). I have however still been reading the usual collection of rss feeds that I read regularly (70 odd of them). There...

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Hmm. 8 days since I last posted in my blog, 4 days since I last posted on LiveJournal. Hmm. Where does time go? I've not been busy, not really. Haven't blown up any large (or small) buildings. The plans just...

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I decided the app to make that will cause me to learn cocoa and stuff! I call it CD Sonar. Ok, sure, it's been done before, but quite frankly, the idea behind re doing it (without a similar piece of...

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Well, today was a walk in the garbage can! Ok, I: Went to meet Jake. Had a milkshake. And then we went to Mr Buns before going to sort out Nebulous banking. We did that. I came home, and waited...

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Another day gone to the ether No work for me today though! I didn't even do any uni work, I really really needed a break. So I took it :) Um, my arm is hurting me atm - I fell...

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Ok, what is the first thing you do when you get a new OS installed? Well, programming it usually isn't the first, but it's got to be up there somewhere. So that's what I'm attempting to do with Cocoa and...

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