Blogging to Nowhere

Hey,

Haven’t been posting in a while, mainly because I’ve been busy doing other things:

I’ve developed and successfully launched a new website for my Tramping Club, using Drupal – which I’ve now found is really awesome for community type sites like that btw.

I’ve switched to Crunchbang (Cruncheee) on my EeePC, which I really like. I intend to review it at some point, but I’m not sure when I’ll get round to it.

Also, this week has been the first week of uni, so I’m going to be busier from now on. I’ll still try and post as much as I can, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to write any long articles.

That’s about it. I should probably mention a bit of site news too:

I was just listending to Linux Outlaws 80 and they mentioned this whole drop IE6 thing, which I’m really in favour of! This site has now officially dropped IE6 thanks to the Shockingly Big IE6 Warning plugin for wordpress.

Also LO mentioned the email I sent them re Wikia search (yay!!!). Thanks Dan and Fab (if you ever read this!).

I just learnt about this whole Section 92A thing and the campaign against it that’s going on. Needless to say I signed the petition and set my identica and facebook avatars to blacked out. I find this whole thing completely wrong and see it as a capitulation to an industry that has wholly failed to ‘get’ the Internet. If you want to learn more or help out goto http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html

Went to see Top Gear Live last night. It was awesome! If you get the chance you have to see this show! I won’t write any more, otherwise I may spoil it for anyone who hasn’t yet seen it .

Hi!

Welcome to my new blog!

Here you’ll find my random musings on tech stuff, the web, Linux and Open Source, Tramping and the Outdoors and anything else I feel like posting. Hopefully I’ll actually keep to the promise I’ve made myself and post here and maybe someone will even read it (though I’m not holding my breath!).

I guess it’s traditional to write some stuff about myself seen as this is the first post. However, I’m going to break with tradition and not do that (I’ll put it on the about page instead, eventually!).

Oh, well, I guess that’s it for now. I’ll write a proper entry about something technical soon – I already have something to write about, I just need to finish it off (i.e. make it work!) and write it up.

See you soon!