2003

Another fresh default install of Movable Type, another blog, another first entry.

For development purposes I have set-up a duplicate, offline, copy of the skeleton of ollicle.com on my Mac at home. OS X makes this pretty painless, I may document some key pointers I stumbled upon setting mine up in a...

A well meaning work buddy has lent me his copy of Myst III Exile. Determined to make some impact here before I put the first of four CDs in. I'm going to delete a few bits unneeded bits from index...

As a solution AntiBlaster was criticised for the damaging internet traffic its deployment created. Beyond that, the difference between AntiBlaster and what Microsoft is considering seems to be a fine one.

Still within the first handfull of posts here, I have become distinctly aware of my creation / consumption imbalance.

Maude says,

Keen to see this in action I had a go making my own NetNewsWire style sheet. The most interesting aspect of the CSS below is the use of fixed positioning to keep the title of the entry visible in the non-combined view.

There appear to be a lot of reasons for customising the default archiving preferences for Movable Type. I believe my changes have resulted in a more elegant, friendly and future proof system for this site. On most points I have...

Tonight I made a quick stab at adding a favicon to this site. A little lacking in refinement at this point, but like the rest of the site, I'm happy with small beginnings. Safari required no encouragement to show it....

Applescript applications generally restrict themselves to the system widgets available. Although I believe this is a good thing, a couple of newish applications led me to thinking what might be possible if you added the graphic power of Flash to...

In coming up with the new design it seemed fitting for the Ollicle to draw some inspiration from the Oracle:

My suspicion that I'm actually a frustrated scientist lost inside a graphic designer has been confirmed today. The endeavours of both designer and scientist are creative problem solving activities in which an understanding of the world is of equal benefit....

After using my proposed CSS for NetNewsWire for a few weeks I'm very happy with it. Giving something back to the wonderful NetNewsWire was good for the warm fuzzies but has also improved my everyday experience using it. My trial...

Looking at my web stats I was surprised the other day when I saw how many

Favicons in NetNewsWire? Why Not? And a rant about users' presentation control in a RSS reader in contrast to a browser.

People seem to like the idea of favicons in NetNewsWire. Although another possible trade-off occured to me, beyond the odd ugly icon.

Just a short rant regarding a small CSS tweak to my NetNewsWire user stylesheet. A few RSS feeds appeared tonight with particularly long titles. These were originally cause for me to update my NetNewsWire stylesheet. Hence my surprise to notice...

I'm suprised that this small humble site has already been subjected to comment spam. Hey spammers don't bother! I don't get the traffic to warrant it. So far I have only had a few which were simply deleted, but it...

Compared to the numbered digital display there is something more human and approachable about the analog clock. The challenge of displaying the time on ollicle.com with a friendly face and hands demonstrated why I hadn't seen this any other blogs....

What better time than the first day of daylight savings to be thinking about time. The time icons have had the subtle upgrade they demanded since my last post. As promised I’m documenting their construction. Lately I have spent a...

I had the good fortune of being one of 400 people present when Matthew Collings, of This is Modern Art fame, gave a lecture here in Adelaide late yesterday.

Dear EMI Yesterday I purchased Radiohead – Hail to the Thief. I am very disappointed to discover that the Copy Control Technology prevents me listening my new music on my iPod. This greatly reduces the value of the CD as...

Music buyers are not alone in the belief that they should be free to choose how they listen to their purchases.

I'm yet to hear an another artist sing the word fuck as beautifully as Jodi Phillis.

Right now I'm pretty sure Stonie is somewhere in Kangaroo Island bagging another fish or sea dwelling meal. If not, his holiday is over and Andrew Stone is looking for a job in Sydney. He ought to have no trouble...

Caught a free preview to Tim Burton's latest wonderful creation Big Fish last night. When it comes out, in Februrary here in Australia, by all means get out and pay to see it. If your taste in escapism is anything...