December 2004
14 posts
Support BlogAid
Update: I’ve added Google AdSense to the sidebar in hopes of generating a bit of revenue in order to donate to the relief effort.
Andy Budd has kick started BlogAid, a drive to get blog owners to donate the revenue from their blogs throughout the month of January to the tsunami relief effort.
Even though I do not have advertising on this site, I definitely support this effort, and as...
Christmas '04 Wrap Up
After spending this morning watching various news channel’s coverage of the devastation of the tsunami in Asia, I have a new found consideration of how lucky I am for everything that I have. My thoughts go out to those that have lost family members, their homes, as well as those that cannot contact family members in the area. If any of you have a little extra money left over from the...
Upgrade to Nightly
I’m in the process of upgrading to the latest nightly build of Wordpress, so if things seem a little out of whack here for a while, please bear with me. It will be fixed soon.
Update: I’ve upgraded to the latest nightly build of Wordpress (1.5-alpha-6 2004-12-28). Everything seems to be working fine. I realize that the search form at the top of the page is still a little...
More GMail Invites
I currently have 3 more invites to give away. I’ve also added a counter to the sidebar that shows how many invites I have remaining. Clicking on the number of invites will take you to the contact page.
I’ve just got another lot of GMail invites dumped into my account and still have 9 left. If anyone still wants one, just send me a message from the contact page being sure to include...
Merry Christmas To Me! (New Job)
My search for employment is now finally over. Yesterday morning I accepted a web design position with a company in Edmonton. I’ll be designing web layouts for their clients as well as helping to develop web application interfaces, and doing a bit of work with Macromedia RoboHelp to develop tutorial and help file solutions.
I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to find a job at...
Merry Christmas To One And All
I wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I hope that it is an enjoyable and restful break for everyone.
This Christmas will be a very different one for me. This will be the first time in my 23 years that I will not be spending Christmas on Prince Edward Island with my family and friends. Krista and I will be staying in St. Albert and spending some time with...
Some Pre-New Year Resolutions
I’ve sat down today and did a bit of analyzing of where I want to see my career headed in the next year. I didn’t see any point in waiting until the new year to get things started, so I’m going to dive in headfirst right away.
First off, I’ve decided to tackle the design of my portfolio website. I haven’t been satisfied with the design of the site even with the...
Future Projects
Now that “Prairie Skies” is pretty much tweaked to my liking, I’m trying to come up with some new projects to work on, but seem to be drawing a blank. I like to keep myself constantly working away on web design projects in order to keep my skills honed and sharp.
So if anyone has any ideas for me, or possibly has an idea for a collaborative project, please leave a note in the...
del.icio.us Links and Amazon Wishlist
After seeing Jeremy’s post regarding posting to del.icio.us from NetNewsWire I decided to ditch my Recent Links plugin in favor of a combination of del.icio.us and the del.icio.us cached Wordpress plugin.
So for those of you that subscribe to my Diversions RSS feed, make sure to update the links in your news aggregator to: http://del.icio.us/rss/fromaway.
I’ve also added my Amazon...
Memories of 2004
I’ve seen the year end lists popping up around many of the blogs I visit on a regular basis, so I thought that I’d throw my hat in the ring as well.
Music Self Titled by Probot Inferno by Motörhead With The Lights Out by Nirvana New Found Power by Damageplan Hot Fuss by The Killers Honorable Mention: Archetype by Fear FactoryMovies Kill Bill Vol. 2 Anchorman The Village...
Version 2: "Prairie Skies"
Welcome to Version 2 of From Away titled “Prairie Skies”. I’m quite proud of this design, I was getting kind of tired of the old layout, “Antique”. The structure of the site has remained pretty much the same but there are many major improvements, even besides the new graphics.
One of the major issues I wanted to address this time around was the archival system...
Spam, Spam and More Spam
This site has been inundated with spam for the past 3 hours, so I’ve had to turn on comment moderation. If you happen to post a comment on any of the articles, it may be a few hours before it appears as I’ll have to approve it before it actually gets posted.
I’m holding off installing any spam filters until Version 2 is ready to go out the door, as I have a number of plugins...
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott 1966 - 2004
As I awoke to The Bear this morning, I heard the report that last night at an Ohio nightclub, a crazed fan shot and killed “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.
Any of you who are remotely into heavy metal music no doubt know who Dimebag Darrell is. But, for those who don’t, Dimebag was the lead guitarist for the now parted Pantera, a pioneer in the hardcore metal scene. Since the...
Version 2 On The Way
My prospects for employment are still a bit on the slim side, so in order to take my mind off that and financial matters, I’ve been working very diligently on the new design for this site. It will still be most likely a week or so before I have the new design completed, although I don’t want to hint at any target dates, because who knows what the next few days will bring. Things...