Matthew Sweet’s Weblog

I’m just having a go at some of the new features in Wordpress 2.5 - specifically images!

I just did a major update of fg.com over the easter long weekend.

Finally moved from my www.mediatemple.net account to my own www.servint.net vps server
Installed Wordpress 2.3.3 with fantastico!
Installed the latest following plugins:

Adsense Delux - 0.8
AVC FLV-Player - 2.5.5
Akismet - 2.1.4
All-In-One-SEO-Pack - 1.4.6.3
Google Analyticator - 2.1
Google Sitemaps - 3.0.3
reCAPTCHA - 2.6
ShiftThis | Newsletter  - 2.2.6
Twitter Widget [...]

Wow,
Os Hillman slipped his iPhone out of his left pocket this morning and showed it around to us poor ignorant Aussie’s down here with no iPhones. Funnily enough he didn’t gloat one bit, and he was so nice about it! I didn’t get to touch it, maybe I will get to touch one when Brett [...]

I have been working a great new site for my old landlord and now client Bryce Roadley.
www.wealthwithattitude.com is starting to look really awesome, we have been putting alot of work into it the last few weeks and I’m excited to see how it will go as a full membership site.
We a using amember, a membership [...]

Ok, it’s official, as a special treat for myself paying off alot of debt, I’m buying myself a new iPod Nano. Now I will be able to enjoy video on the trot! Podcasts and movies and TV shows and stuff!
So just for those of you who think they way you do (you know who you [...]

Hi Just spent two days with a fellow Pastor Ian Rumsey at Charity Computers in our nations capital.
I wasn’t sure what to expect but to say I was blown away when we entered their massive warehouse was an understatement!
I was the size of two tennis courts and stacked with pallet after pallet of donated computers!
They [...]

There is alot I like about Myspace.
It’s an incredibly viral and sticky site.
What I mean is, it’s addictive and I keep wanting to come back for more.
I love how you can customise your profile to look any way you want.
Looking for old friends is like a game, a kind of synthetic hide and seek!
Most of [...]

Myspace is web 2.0?
Hmph
It’s more like a web 1.0 application incorporating social networking concepts.
Problems with Myspace:
1. Interface
You would think that a site worth so much to Murdock would get a major overhaul in the user interface department. It’s seriously lacking, uses very little DHTML or AJAX to speed the overall user experience and has an [...]

A mate of mine was at work today and the brother of one of his co-workers turned up (having just landed from the states) with a red-hot iPhone coolly hanging from his left mit! Aaron (my mate) got the chance to polish it for a few minutes while trying out some cool moves reviewers from [...]

This is the most classic error message for a social website login I have ever seen!
I discovered it after using an incorrect username on www.verb.com
I had completely forgotten the last time I had seen this error message, must have been the last time I had a paper jam with an old mangy HP Laserjet III [...]