Archive for September, 2004

Subscribing to my Blog

Friday, September 24th, 2004

You can subscribe to this blog, if you use an Atom reader (see atomenabled.org) or Mozilla Firefox 1.0 with the new live bookmarks feature.

Subscribing in Firefox 1.0 PR.

Browser Stats

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

Mozilla’s recent marketing effort launched alongside the release of Firefox 1.0PR – has hit the 1 million downloads milestone in less than 10 days.

The marketing effort otherwise known as Spread Firefox (or sfx) uses a number of techniques to increase the market share of Mozilla’s technology-leading browser.

The browser statistics for my website (Robsta.id.au) can be seen below.

Currently Internet Explorer holds the largest share at 51% of hits. I hope to increase the share of Firefox to over 50%. Internet Explorer has dominated for too long!

freegmailinvites.com

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Hey I’m been hard at donating and guess what? I’ve busted the 50 Gmail invitations barrier on FreeGmailInvites.com. I’m a friendly person!

Head over and play FreeGmailInvites.com for your chance to win your very own Gmail account. 80 invites were given away in the last 24 hours, and the odds are 1 in 216 of winning.

The Beat-Boxing Harmonica

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Ran into this amazingly funny flash video clip. It’s about a guy that can beat-box whilst playing the harmonica. Check it Out!

Archive.org

Monday, September 13th, 2004

I’ve always liked Archive.org’s Wayback Machine for visiting previous versions of websites. Today I found indexes of my very own website.

Christmas PC

Friday, September 10th, 2004

Here is the PC Santa is buying me for christmas,

Motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro: VIA K8T800, 800MHz FSB, 3xDDR400, ATA/133, RAID/133, SATA/150, 8X AGP, Firewire, GigaLAN, Sound, ATX  
CPU AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU + Fan – S754, 2.0GHz, 512kb, 800MHz
RAM GeIL 1Gb 400MHz CL2.5 DDR Memory Kit (2 x 512Mb 400MHz DDR RAM)
Hard Drives 120Gb Maxtor SATA/150 7200rpm Hard Drive – 8Mb Cache, 3Y
120Gb Maxtor SATA/150 7200rpm Hard Drive – 8Mb Cache, 3Y
Video Card HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600XT 128Mb AGP 8X Video Card + DVI/TV Out
Case CoolerMaster CM Stacker Tower Case (*NO PSU*)
Power Supply Zalman 400w Noiseless ATX Power Supply

Thanks to SecretNet.

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Undercover Projects

Friday, September 3rd, 2004

Hey all,

I’ve got a couple of ideas for some pretty nifty projects. First of all, I’ve come to love Google’s interfaces. They’re plain, friendly and fast-to-boot. I decided to whip up some templates using Dreamweaver and Fireworks. I’ll post a screenie soon!

Anyway I realised it would be good to add some PHP class logic and develop a simple system for whipping up web applications. I haven’t named it yet, nor is it particulary useful (it saves time and thats about it), but it is a functioning concept. Simply define a few variables and bang it generates the HTML for you. All too easy :) .

Every computer literate person also builds a photo gallery system in their time. Mine is yet to come, but I started one.

Once this webhost I use polishes up their system, I will no doubt release quite a few of my projects. Licenses are the next thing to consider.

BSD vs GPL? I need to explore each route.