Keks

I’ve just signed up for a Zooomr account, and hopefully, this post will be processed by the powers that be at OpenId and I get my free upgrade to Zooomr Pro for being a blogger.

The photo shown was taken on Saturday during our family outing to Puffing Billy. It was taken between Cockatoo and Gembrook. Beautiful country, and for some reason, this photo makes me think of France.

A big thanks to Natalie at pixelkitty for the heads up about Zooomr and the free upgrade.

Just one gripe about Zooomr from my initial use, I’m unable to edit the GeoTag, which has somehow placed this photo somewhere west of Melbourne. Anyone know how to fix this?

A lot changes in five and a half years… and a lot stays the same.

Take this blog for example.

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Blogware: Original URL:kex.netsol.net.au/weblog
Site/Design Status: Dormant ¹
First Post: 1st of January, 2001
Last Post: 11th of February, 2002¹
Comment: Despite using Blogger, I opted to utilise the webspace provided instead of going for the blogspot option, though, I’m not all that sure that blogspot was an option back then, not a fully integrated and viable one at least. Whilt it served it’s purpose, Blogger was too slow and limited in it’s feature (back then) and I transfered my attention to a more powerful blogware package.

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The period between February and July of 2002 saw a couple of different headers and minor tweaks to a default MovableType template… I consider those days as being “the days of no fixed design“… hell, the site was even renamed (temporarily) in this period… crazy!

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Blogware: Original URL:
kex.netsol.net.au/mt
Site/Design Status: Extinct ²
First Post: 14th of July, 2002
Last Post: 23rd of May, 2003
Comment: This was inspired by the goalkeeping uniform worm by Rustu Recber ³ during Turkey’s 2002 World Cup campaign. While I quite liked to design, the use of tables simply didn’t cut the mustard when CSS really took off… and CSS was a few years away from the round corners capability required to recreate the design… this was a design before its time.

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Blogware: Original URL:
kekoc.com/mt
Site/Design Status: Extinct/Mothballed ⁴
First Post: 23rd of May, 2003
Last Post: 20th of October, 2004
Comment: This design was my first attempt to design a fully W3C compliant weblog. Initially successful, complaince wasn’t long lived as more an more breaches were posted with each quiz and test code published. This designs demise came with the complete collapse of MovableType with the overload of comment spam which grew to epedemic proportions by mid 2004.

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Blogware: Original URL:
kekoc.com/wp
Site/Design Status: Active/Retired
First Post: 4th of December, 2004
Last Post: 31st of May, 2006
Comment: This design was a slight modification of the Kubrick theme, which at the the time was reasonably popular in the WordPress community but nowhere nearly as overused as it became when it was adopted by WordPress as part of the default installation. Despite almost every man and his dog using it after that point, I continued using this until May of 2006 ⁵.

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So… as you can see… a lot has changed, but a lot hasn’t.

Notes:

1. I’m still able to post to it as it’s still active, however I have no plans to do so [↩]
2. I did temporarily resurrect it to get the screen capture [↩]
3. An image of which is not easy to find [↩]
4. It’s still exists as an archive, but it not functional as a blog [↩]
5. The current design isn’t mentioned here as it is only a temporary design as is considered in the same way as the designs used in the Feb-Jul 2002 period. If however, a new design isn’t implemented before October 2006, it will be included here [↩]

Now that I’m finally on broadband, I’ve been able to do something I’ve wanted to do for ages… download podcasts

And I reckon I’m hooked.

It’s quite liberating being able to listen to radio programs (and other stuff) as I walk at lunchtime. I’ve been able to listen to Dr Karl thanks to his podcast on Triple J… and I haven’t been able to do that, apart from the odd occasion when at home sick on a Thursday, since mid-2000.

But I have to say, downloading podcasts on a 256K “broadband” connection isn’t all that pleasant… I’m glad I never attempted it on dialup, but I’m thinking I might have to upgrade my account to something with a bigger pipe. “I need more power”

I’ve been surfing the podcast feed sites, Yahoo Podcasts, PodcastAlley, Podfeed, Odeo, Podcast Directory and a few others, while I download another couple podcast… this time it’s John Safran and something new which gets a few mentions in the “most popular” lists on a few of the podcast sites (no mention of it yet in case is sucks).

I’m even considering getting membership at a local radio station, and getting my own podcast up and running. “Radio station? Not necessary to podcast… and it’s old media, get with the times old man.” I here you say… well, tell me something I don’t know, but the radio gig would give me some broadcasting experience and access to equipment I don’t currently have nor can afford at the moment.

Another nice idea that will remain just that, an idea, perhaps… but you never know. Think I’ll at least give the station a call tomorrow (or should that be later today).

I took the “Draw a pig personality test” and it told me that I:

• am a realist.
• believe in tradition, am friendly, and remember dates (birthdays, etc.)
• am emotional and naive, care little for details and am a risk-taker.
• am secure, stubborn, and stick to my ideals.
• am a good listener
• draw pigs with medium sized tails

I did intend to show the drawing here, but it was too ugly a drawing… you can see for yourself.