Jun 7th, 2010
So, my impending move to Darwin is getting closer and with each day so the thoughts regarding how I plan to transplant my life to this distant city become more concrete. You can only make a decision like this if you can imagine yourself there, but this does not always translate into the practical reality…
Jan 14th, 2010
Alice Springs is a weird and wonderful place in the most clichéd and unique ways – it is both iconic and exotically foreign. But this fact goes largely unnoticed and ignored whenever Alice Springs scratches the surface of the national public consciousness. Because of The Alice’s iconic status we outsiders think we know why things…
Jul 15th, 2009
So, thanks to Mick, I found a great hosting deal with just host and have now moved my sites to their new domain: bernardleckning.com. I’ll eventually develop the home page into something akin to a CV, once there is enough of a professional life to speak of. In the meantime I’m thinking of installing WordPress…
Feb 23rd, 2009
Since the original blog is completely busted, I had to get rid of it completely. I have, however, retained the posts and imported them into this blog. So, everything prior to and including the 2nd of January, 2007 is from the old blog. This includes some classics like my attempted conversation with a spammer (here,…
Jan 5th, 2009
It was actually unintentional, but the new site is quite usable on the iPhone. This is the default view when the home page first loads: As is the case with most non-PDA sites, the rendering is not that easily read. But Safari’s zooming is what makes the internet experience on the iPhone that much better…
Dec 31st, 2008
I like grammatically lazy and cliched hyperbole like my title. Something can’t be a new beginning since the one implies the other. Grammar aside, the site is undergoing it’s yearly aesthetic change. In 2007, it was the under-employed sociologist. In 2008, it was over-worked. In 2009, it shall be the Duke of Conceptual Architecture. This…
May 2nd, 2006
Have moved the blog to the comfy surrounds provided by TSD mob. Cheers Big A! I’m sure there will be lots of bugs as I sort out the various little backend scripts that used to run on my old server. If there are any probs that you find, pls let me know.
Feb 15th, 2006
At the moment, my script for pulling in my last.fm journal entries isn’t working properly. There’s some problems with parsing the date from the last.fm. Anyway, I’ve manually dated a couple of recent posts correctly, but I think I’ll turn it off until I figure out what’s wrong. So please visit my last.fm journal to…
Jan 27th, 2006
At the moment, the blog infrastructure is in some disarray. Categories and tags are not set up properly and I’m currently spending my life savings just typing away this little message at an internet cafe in Alice Springs. As soon as I get back to Sydney, I promise to have made my bed (and to…
Jan 18th, 2006
I’ve come across my first problem with the WP2 installation. I rolled my own XML-RPC server that inherits from the WP one in order to write some of my own XML-RPC calls for importing my last.fm journal. This stopped working with the WP2 version of the XML-RPC server. In fact, all XML-RPC stopped working because…
Jan 17th, 2006
Upgraded the blog to v2.0. Simple enough so read the instructions and do it yourself if you’re still lagging behind on 1.5.x. First impressions: Not impressive. Plenty of back-end improvements that I’ll probably never touch. Usability of the admin interface is better. Nevertheless, it’s still worth it, if only for the last point. I’ve installed…
Dec 23rd, 2005
But it sure as hell does not look as interesting as it should. I wonder if I should perhaps have browser specific CSS?
Dec 22nd, 2005
Once again boredom kicks in and my site has changed look. I was browsing the photos on my hard drive thinking about how I should put them up on flickr, when it dawned on me to create a WP plug-in that would make the background of my blog a sort of flickr slideshow. Well, sort…
Oct 6th, 2005
I’ve been looking at aggregating my last.fm journal into this blog. I wanted to make this a batch job. Simple enough except when it comes to dealing with identifying existing entries. Well this is a problem that’s not easy to overcome using the existing WP XML-RPC. There’s no way of having a common unique identifier…
Oct 5th, 2005
I’m currently seeking out ways in which I can post songs I rate in iTunes to my blog. I’ve been looking at scripting iTunes to do this. The idea is to use a script to assign a rating to the current song, which will also be sent to my blog using XML-RPC. The problem at…
Sep 29th, 2005
I found some neat javascript over here that generates a menu to navigate the current page based on all the header tags it finds. Neato! I modified this script for my blog so that it adds a new sidebar menu, called ‘goto’, that contains links to take the user to posts for a given date…
Sep 28th, 2005
I’ve touched up the ole blog a bit. Working my way through some nifty CSS and Javascript snippets from who else? Lots more work to do. There’s some fine tuning of the CSS and layout to be done. Then I’m going to aggregate my whole online presence onto the blog!! Stay tuned.