About
Me
I am an IT Architect at TelstraClear Limited, in Auckland, New Zealand, where I primarily work with broadband and internet technology and projects. (However, please see disclaimer.)
The website
This site is a bit of a playground for me, where I can try out different web technologies. It is also my “online home” where I post my hopefully occasionally interesting ramblings in the Notepad section.
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The site is built using the following software and tools:
- Standards based XHTML, CSS and Javascript;
- WordPress 2.9.x;
- Gimp for graphics (I cannot justify buying Photoshop!);
- Emacs for HTML, CSS and Javascript editing;
- Vox typeface for headings (from Canada Type via fonts.com);
- Vox Alt typeface for logo and logo type (from Canada Type via fonts.com);
- SiFR 3 for Flash rendering of headings;
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard running on a 20″ iMac for development;
- MAMP, the Mac OS LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) for development;
- VMWare Fusion running on my iMac with Windows XP guest OS for browser testing (with Explorer 6-8, Firefox 2-3, Opera 9, and Safari 4);
- Media Temple Grid-Service web hosting;
- Ecto for Notepad/blog postings;
- Feedburner for RSS feed distribution;
- Google Analytics for web site statistics;
- TelstraClear broadband.
Other sites I have designed
I have also designed:
