sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Ramblings, Tech, Wordpress Widget Reviews on Jun 29th, 2008
I’ve blogged about the WP-Ecommerce plugin from instinct.co.nz before, and how seriously impressed I was with the plugin itself and how seriously UNIMPRESSED I was with the documentation!
Usually, the internet is full of those that deplore things, and say how bad they are, but rarely do those people actually do anything about it.
I approached Shayne [...]
Posted in Tech on May 12th, 2008
So, I have a customer.
Customer wants a new website. They’ve outgrown their existing one.
Website should be an ecommerce site and be really accessible to the search engines (I added the last bit!).
To be honest there is nothing in those short statements that would bother most website designers (which I am not by the way!). [...]
Posted in Tech on Mar 22nd, 2008
Genetic scientists have created a tiny creature that resembles a mythical dragon by combining the DNA from a bearded dragon lizard with the DNA structure of a bird.
The creature is no more than an inch or so long and the scientist even added smoke to the picture in their press release in order to build [...]
Posted in Tech on Mar 12th, 2008
GTA IV (Grand Theft Auto 4), the much anticipated sequel is predicted to have sales exceeding 9m units, and the expectation is that at least 6m of these will be shipped in week one according to analysts Wedbush Morgan.
Despite endless criticism of its’ violence and apparent glamorisation of crime by rewarding behaviours in the game [...]
Posted in Tech on Mar 12th, 2008
The Japanese are currently investigating incidents of the 2GB iPod Nano emitting sparks and setting fire to things!
It appears that when the 2GB iPod Nano (from Apple) is recharged a fault is causing it to emit sparks and cause the fire risk.
Japanese shops have sold in excess of 400 000 of these units and authorities [...]
