IE please take me back

April 27, 2008 · Filed Under Internet · 1 Comment 

It’s been well over two years since I switched from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. I swapped over because I was growing tired of all the spyware that IE was letting through. IE wasn’t the fastest browser back then either. Now after using IE 7 for a couple of weeks on my laptop, I’m seriously considering using it full time again.

There are a few reasons why I want to swap back, Read more

NASA Go Live With Textpattern

April 26, 2008 · Filed Under High Profile · 4 Comments 

It’s always nice to see a high profile organization or company using an open source CMS to develop their site with. I was especially impressed with NASA’s latest offering, Astrobiology.

They’ve used a heavily modified Textpattern setup, 3,100 lines of custom plugin code to be precise. Although the site is still in the bug finding/fixing stage, it looks great and runs very smoothly too. Here’s what the designer had to say about it. Read more

Finally, a blog

April 26, 2008 · Filed Under News · 4 Comments 

After nearly a month of playing around with the Nerd gallery, I’ve finally got around to adding a blog to it. At first I wasn’t going to add a blog because I wanted to concentrate solely on showcasing brilliant designs. But then I realized, a blog will enable me to show off my findings even more because I can do the following: Read more