Great Designers Steal, And So Do I
Welcome to the new girtby.net site design. If you’re in an aggregator, please feel free to head on over to a browser and admire the countless hours of work that I’ve put into … stealing someone else’s...
View ArticleSoftware That Goes Clunk
In the world of the manufactured consumer item, there has long been a tradition of techniques which convey an impression of underlying quality to the prospective purchaser. For example, it is never...
View ArticleMonkeying With JavaScript
It’s funny really, one of my main reasons for switching to a Rails-based blogging platform way back when was to become more familiar with web technologies. As it turned out I never really did much of...
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They Don’t Call it Hardware for Nothing
Sometimes you blog because you’ve accomplished something. Sometimes you blog because you just want to salvage something from failure. Today I’m going to do both! Yes, hardware is involved. Nintendo DS...
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A Kamikaze That Doesn’t Crash And Burn
Long-time readers will know that I’m a big fan of the OpenWrt linux distribution for home routers. It’s a great little linux distribution that lets you do all sorts of geeky networky things, and is...
View ArticleStaging Wordpress With Bazaar
Version Control Systems, I’ve had a few. But then again, too few to mention. Keen observers will have noted that I have tended to blog each time I try out a new version control system, and this really...
View ArticleEasiest $100 I’ll Ever Make
Recently, before boarding a flight up to Hamilton Island for a $WORK junket conference, I purchased a puzzle book. On the flight, I shared the puzzles amongst colleagues, and fun was had. One...
View ArticleAt The End Of One’s Tether
Many carriers, most notably AT&T, but also others such as Optus, are getting a lot of bad press for charging their subscribers extra for “tethering” their iPhones to their laptops. This does seem...
View ArticleSleeping Bloggy
It should be apparent to prettymuch anyone who reads this blog that I have lost the impetus to publish regularly. Although I still have many things to say to the internet, it seems to be getting harder...
View ArticleArchiving Tweets
If you’ve run Damon Cortesi’s handy curl command to download all (or the last 3200) tweets from your twitter account, you’ll have a directory full of files with names like...
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