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Internet Explorer: Get the facts

Published 8 months ago in general, web

Internet Explorer is a horrid browser.

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Best Keyboard Cats yet

Published 8 months ago in general

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

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New Deviation: Me, Kristen, and Aristoclea

Published 9 months ago in design, general

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.

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New blog!

Published 9 months ago in design, general, rails

After quite a long while I have finally finished my new blog :-D. 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.

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Slideshow of professional photos from our wedding

Published about 1 year ago in general, photos

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

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Married!

Published about 1 year ago in general

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 :-D I am thrilled to say that, as of yesterday at around 3:15pm, I can now call Kristen my wife.

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Michael Crichton, 1942-2008

Published about 1 year ago in general

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.

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Our engagement shoot

Published about 1 year ago in general, photos

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 :-D.

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I'm in Keith Rowell's Project 365

Published about 1 year ago in general, photo

Me in Project 365

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iPhone

Published about 1 year ago in general, iphone

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

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Introducing: Claptrap

Published about 1 year ago in general, git, ruby, web

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

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New blog: Nigel McBryde

Published about 1 year ago in design, general, web

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

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Practice makes perfect

Published about 1 year ago in general

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).

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Survey for people who make websites

Published about 1 year ago in general

Survey

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Worlds Greatest Shave

Published about 1 year ago in general

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 :-P.

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Phantom of the Opera

Published over 2 years ago in general

Phantom mask 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.

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Nathan Hoad: Qualified Interaction Designer

Published over 2 years ago in general

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).

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One year to go!

Published over 2 years ago in design, general

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 :-P.

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First official blog post

Published over 2 years ago in general

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.

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