Blog archive for June 2002
29.06.02, 02:13
Another net access terminal offering
After trying out the Eircom smartphone, I decided it would be interesting to compare it to the competition's offering - ITG`s web access terminal. In short I found it improved on the Eirom in some ways but was let down read more
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28.06.02, 19:56
Sitting in the airport checkin' my mail
Well, I'm currently sitting in Dublin airport waiting for a delayed flight to Paris so I thought I'd try out the new Eircom Smartphone and check my email etc. Unfortunately, the experience is not going entirely smoothly. The unit itself read more
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28.06.02, 14:58
Migrating to Mac OS X?
I've been wondering... how design companies in Dublin are Mac based and looking to migrate to OS X-based workflows? I've been investigating this for my own employer since the public beta (and running OS X 90% of the time since read more
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24.06.02, 23:26
MT oddities causing problems; but some progress on content
Lots of work on the site today, but alas little progress to show for it. I tried adding a calendar to access archived entries, but I have set it to hidden in the stylesheet because in the template supplied with read more
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23.06.02, 22:53
Weekend work on home page and error screens
Busy weekend (had a BBQ and also had some fun setting up the new speaker stands for my surround sound system) so I didn't get too much done on the site. Fortunately did get around to finally doing the 404 read more
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21.06.02, 21:52
Styling fixes to comments
Finally got around to editing the template for the comments pop-up and re-styled it to fit in with the rest of the site. I fixed a CSS glitch on the header which was causing scrollbars to appear at ay window read more
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21.06.02, 15:41
Welcome message
Welcome to this, the future site for all things 'me' - my interests, my work, my life, and well... lots of other boring stuff. If you've stumbled across this site, drop me an email and let me know what you read more
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20.06.02, 14:43
Confusing email error messages
I work in a company with 15+ employees, all of whom are computer literate and most use complex creative packages like Quark XPress, Illustrator and Photoshop without trouble. Yet nearly every time an email is undelivered, delayed or returned I'm read more
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20.06.02, 14:26
Real content arrives!
Well, I made some changes to the HTML templates and CSS files today to clean things up a bit. Unfortunately, I'm still being lazy about testing in various browsers so I'm probably in for a shock when I do. Still read more
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19.06.02, 18:59
Up and crawling
Despite what I said in my previous post, I decided to go through and put my proper home page back on the site, and I even managed to fudge my way through converting my XHTML to an MT template. All read more
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19.06.02, 17:11
Yahoo!... oh wait, damn
Well, finally got Moveable Type running on my host. My problems where down to paths to important files being incorrect because of how paths are set up on a shared host. Thankfully, all that is worked out now. Unfortunately, when read more
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18.06.02, 18:43
CSS fixes and mail problems
Yikes, how asleep was I last night?! Made some stupid mistakes in the CSS and HTML files which I've fixed now. I came across some excellent links today which I'll post tomorrow. Work on MT is underway, but I'm still read more
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17.06.02, 18:49
Minor progress and a few software updates
Haven't progressed much on the site today. I read some more of the Moveable Type manual and also checked out Drupal. One look at the requirements though and I dropped that idea (don't have the time yet to be fiddling read more
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16.06.02, 18:51
Moveable Blues
Decided this weekend to run my blog on Moveable Type. Its my first time trying to install a CGI-based program so not all went well. Surprisingly, installation on my Mac OS X based system at home went fine, but I read more