This impulse buying must stop…..first I buy a new case…which I totally didn’t need (nevertheless totally cool, see moblog) and then I go and spend more by buying a new side panel with a window….what the hell do I need that for? You’re damn right, I have no need for it what so ever.

someone hide my money.

I started making a new layout for my site a week or so ago, but I got a freelance web job and that has started to take up a fair chunk of my time. Nevertheless I put together a slightly different look and colour scheme. My old nav bar was annoying me no end, and even thought I did get it working nicely on all browsers, I still didn’t like how it looked. So it’s gone, and has been replaced with a nice basic navigation at the top. I will eventually finish my new look site, but clients take priority of course.

On other notes, starting to really heavily look for work in Melbourne now. I finish up at my current workplace at the end of the year and it’s time for me to get to the big smoke, I’m looking forward to next year, something different.

One of the bigger projects I’m working on is my portfolio script. Full user interface and interactivity, traffic light style warnings for missing and insecure issues, automatic user addition in conjuntion with most login scripts, and it looks pretty too. Probably the biggest PHP application (yes…I think this one is big enough to call it an application) I’ve ever taken on, and it’s all coming together very quickly. I’m finding myself having to reference sites and forums for tips and code snippets a lot less than usual and I don’t make random mistakes like missing quotes and semi-colons. Hopefully once it’s up and running at my workplace they will be able to keep it going for as long as they want without me there.

I’m off to philip island for four days. If I’m lucky I can get a decent photo of a penguin to post on my moblog. We’ll see what happens.

Not much going on at the moment, getting into the swing of things and looking for work in the big smoke (Melbourne). I’m totally happy with my moblog script, works just how I want it to. I’m going to adapt it soon and release it, I’ll also make it usable via a standard Picture of the Week script where the info can be sent from any computer to a specified email address rather than optimised for a MMS style layout. On top of that I’ve added a directory browsing script that displays like any Windows or Mac OS icon layout, which arranges it self to fit nicely to any size using floating divs. Nothing special really, but I think there’s a few people who would like to do away with the Apache or IIS layout and be able to display files in a better way. I use the same script at my Workplace on the intranet using an iframe and it works brilliantly.

Oh and I can’t stop playing Battlefield 2, it’s way too much fun. Just need a nicer computer so I can make it look like it’s supposed to.

Spiraloz.com has moved house, I changed webhosts a couple of weeks ago and was braced for the worst after migrating my database to the new home, as well as the rest of the site’s files etc. It went a lot smoother than I expecting, not really any hitches at all. I won’t plug the webhosts, but I will say that my new webhost is 1/3 of the price, 5 times more space, has a better control panel, and to top things off it supports all the PHP imap functions, so my moblog script is running it’s filling up fast, I’ve added an archive page, and it’s looking good. The only hitch I’m experiencing is with the photo gallery, but I think I’ll change that soon to my own script, one that looks kind of like the archive of the moblog script. The only thing I’m worried about now is my phone bill with this script .

Ever since moving to a div layout for this site I’ve encountered nothing but trouble with IE5 for Mac. as soon as I get one issue out of the way, another one arises, So to all you Mac IE 5 users out there, (all <3% of you) I’ll have the issues fixed asap.