Monday, July 21, 2008

You know you're a designer when...

You know you're a designer when you line up your MSN windows to the grid of whatever website you have open in the background.

Either that or you've got OCD :)

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Experiments with Home Automation

About a month ago while doing some hardcore overtime at work, I became obsessed with the Idea of being able to turn on my electric blanket remotely so that I could come home and go to sleep straight away. (a little sad I know...)

So anyway, my research on the topic eventually lead me to X10 Home Automation units, which aparently everyone but me had heard of before.

Ridiculous Vodafone NZ iPhone Plans

Vodafone announced their iPhone plan pricing today, which allows you to have a whopping 1GB of data a month for the small sum of $6200 NZD (4700 USD) over 2 years.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Bruce Dennis wins Country Music Song of the Year

I'm very proud to say that Bruce Dennis (my Dad) picked up the award for Country Music song of the Year at the NZ Country Music awards a few days ago, for his song "Ain't Gonna Run".

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

jQuery slideUp/slideDown jerky animation

The talented team at Enlighten has recently been investigating jQuery as a platform for enhanced user interface design and general ajaxy goodness recently, and I've been having the odd sensation that its actually a form of programming that I enjoy (wtf?).

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Relay for Life (fundraiser for cancer)

I'm participating in the Relay for Life, to help raise money for the Cancer Society this Saturday. If anyone is feeling charitable, I'm accepting small donations via PayPal here:

Donations are closed now sorry, I just got back from the relay, it was awesome, and i'll post some photos as soon as I get to a card reader.

Thanks to all who donated to a good cause.

Photos here: Relay for Life 08 (Hamilton)

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Web Design for a purpose

A few months ago I was asked to write an article for the Creative Coding newsletter.

You can read it here.

Monday, January 07, 2008

Distractions

Sorry guys, I haven't updated like I thought I was going to. After taking a well deserved holiday over xmas, I've been thinking about work related things (including this site) as little as possible, and have been focusing a lot on home music recording. If I manage to fluke anything vaguely listenable, I'll be sure to post it up here.

A bit of patience and things will start to happen this year on Subcide.com :)