Nathan Hoad .net

Internet Explorer is a horrid browser.

If you don't know what Keyboard Cat is then just watch these videos and laugh. It's that simple.

I just uploaded the original image that I modified for my about page to my Deviant Art profile. It has been a while since I updated my Deviant Art gallery so I think it's about time that I started doing just that.

After quite a long while I have finally finished my new blog . My old blog was powered by an aging PHP/MySQL system that I wrote almost 2 years ago. The shiny new system is built on top of the Ruby on Rails framework.

Ben and Justine Rugers (of XSight) have uploaded their slideshow of some of their photos from our big day

My recent lack of posts has been for a good reason. In the past month Kristen and I had been finalising everything for our wedding I am thrilled to say that, as of yesterday at around 3:15pm, I can now call Kristen my wife.

The world has lost one of the greatest writers of all time. Michael Crichton sadly passed away on Tuesday after a difficult battle with cancer. Crichton's books were enjoyed by everyone and will continue to entertain countless generations to come.

It's about 43 days until Kristen and I get married. Time is flying. We had our engagement shoot back on the 12th with Ben Rugers and have just got some of them back. Ben did an awesome job. The photos came out great .

I got a brand new 16GB iPhone this afternoon (this message was posted from the iPhone).

A couple of weeks ago I deployed my first Rails app; The Claptrap site .

Nigel McBryde, a graphic designer friend of mine, has thrown his new design blog up on the net.

I just read a very good article over on Coding Horror that included a rather insightful anecdote (originally from the book 'Art & Fear' by David Bayles and Ted Orland).

Yesterday I got a slight hair trim... and by hair trim I mean shave, and by slight I mean complete. This year I decided to participate in the Worlds Greatest Shave so at high noon yesterday I marched on down to the Public Shave Event on Little Cribb St and had my head shaved. I always wondered what I would look like with a shaved head .

Kristen and I took a trip to Southbank last Thursday and saw The Phantom of the Opera for Valentines Day. For a special treat we had decided to get VIP tickets which gave us seats in the middle of the third row . Although we had heard all of the songs countless times before, nothing compares to seeing them performed live, right in front of you.

Today at around 3:30pm I officially became a qualified Interaction Designer . I graduated from a Bachelor of Information Technology (in the field of Interaction Design) from the University of Queensland. The idea of graduating from university doesn't really hit you until you don the robe and trencher. Here is me getting my complimentary empty blue cylinder from the Chancellor of UQ (I got my actual testamur about 43 seconds later after walking to the back of the hall).

Only 1 year to go until Kristen and I get Married!!! Now that we have broken the year mark, time should fly until the big day .

This is my first official blog post on my new folio/blog site. I have been posting things to this blog for the past week and a bit but this is the first post since the site went up this afternoon. I might set up a project page for this site to keep track of changes that I make to the system. Feel free to have a look around.