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Oliver Boermans works as an interactive media designer in Adelaide, South Australia. This is his web interface — a place for Ollie to rant, reflect and share. Read more about Ollie

September 2003

Favicons in NetNewsWire

Favicons in NetNewsWire? Why Not? And a rant about users' presentation control in a RSS reader in contrast to a browser.

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404 with more

Looking at my web stats I was surprised the other day when I saw how many “404 Not Found” errors were reported. At this point I have no idea how to analyse my stats to reveal exactly what queries are...

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Updated NetNewsWire stylesheet

After using my proposed CSS for NetNewsWire for a few weeks I’m very happy with it. Giving something back to the wonderful NetNewsWire was good for the warm fuzzies but has also improved my everyday experience using it. My trial...

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Scientific literacy for designers

My suspicioun that I'm actually a frustrated scientist lost inside a graphic designer has been confirmed today. The endeavours of both designer and scientist are creative problem solving activities in which an understanding of the world is of equal benefit....

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New favicon and inner truth

My first favicon is now out of favour. The new, more thoughtful, icon has taken it’s place in the root of my home directory. The old quarter donut icon has been survived by the cache of an accidental visitor here...

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Flashy Applescript applications

Applescript applications generally restrict themselves to the system widgets available. Although I believe this is a good thing, a couple of newish applications led me to thinking what might be possible if you added the graphic power of Flash to...

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Favicon

Tonight I made a quick stab at adding a favicon to this site. A little lacking in refinement at this point, but like the rest of the site, I’m happy with small beginnings. Safari required no encouragement to show it....

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No more archives

There appear to be a lot of reasons for customising the default archiving preferences for Movable Type. I believe my changes have resulted in a more elegant, friendly and future proof system for this site. On most points I have...

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Months of 2003