August 2004

Surfing the big wave goodbye

August 31, 2004

The internet is killing itself slowly. Ironically, the biggest advantage of the internet is the one that’s slowly killing it. The internet allows anyone, anywhere to do what they want in total anonymity. That’s great and very liberating. Now what about those of us stuck on the sharp end? The internet isn’t owned or regulated [...]

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IPD: Blurry Screenshot #1

August 26, 2004
Piccie!

I’ve been working hard (cough) on Invision Power Dynamic, our upcoming new CMS, for a little while now. Development has been stopping and starting between IPB 2.0.0 updates but we’re finally getting to the stage where the back-end code is inplace and I can now flesh out the code structure. With that in mind and [...]

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Spam of the week

August 26, 2004
SPAM!

My inbox was jam-packed with spam again today. Thunderbird does a good job of filtering most of it out but I like to check in the junk folder now and again to make sure that it’s not decided that all communication from fellow IPS’rs should now be junked. I would ‘whitelist’ [at]invisionpower.com but I often [...]

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Phantom of the Opera

August 26, 2004

My previous blog entry was mentioned over at the Opera.com forums (my.Opera.com) and a helpful member posted a fix for my CSS quagmire. So, thanks to ‘adcott’ this blog should now render just fine in Opera. It’s probably broken it in IE but that’s half the fun of the CSS see-saw. Now, to add that [...]

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I have no standards

August 25, 2004

No – I’m not talking about loose morales, I’m just spelling out what the internet has been telling us since day 2. (Day 1 was inventing smilies). The internet is essentially a huge unmoderated confusing mess. A section of the internet community then decided to try and standardize everything and that’s when the fun really [...]

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MicroPost

August 25, 2004

I finally got around to making this place a little more homely by introducing a little IPS-ness into the design. I’m working on Invision Power Dynamic (or IPDynamic for short(er)) <digression>why do programmers get the urge to correctly close all nested parenthesis? </digression>. I’m really excited about this project as I have been able to [...]

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Blogging is silly

August 24, 2004

I’ve decided that blogging is silly. I’ve spent the better part of my ‘down time’ (that’s the microsecond it takes to save a BBEdit file) deciding what to “blog” today. I don’t want to become one of those nerdy bloggers who spend all day coding and then all night writing about that days coding. I [...]

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Stupid. Pointless. Annoying. Monday

August 23, 2004

Monday is SPAM day. All over the world people are firing up their email clients for the first time since Friday lunchtime to download their first spam of the week. Monday is extra special because all that wonderful spam has built up over the weekend patiently waiting for that innocent looking “get mail” button to [...]

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Hello World!

August 20, 2004

I’ve finally been convinced that this blogging lark is the new rock and roll. As soon as I discover what happened to the old rock and roll, I’ll let you know. In the mean time, don’t expect much ‘blogging’ activity until after the weekend.

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