Josh Nunn’s Geekorium

I’m a republican at heart, but some things just shouldn’t be tampered with. This morning when thinking about the issue of whether Australia should be looking to rule itself, and cut ties with the British monarchy, only one thing played on my mind as a possibly unintentional consequence of such a move.

photo credit: Edgley Cesar

This issue should not be taken lightly. Whilst it is a slim possibility, even a remote chance should be enough to halt all talks of such a change until this issue can be sorted out.

Would the Brits still send us new episodes of Dr. Who?

» Continue reading Why Australia should remain part of the Commonwealth of Nations

I’ve linked to comics I’ve liked in the past, and have been meaning to do the same with this one for a while. Starslip Crisis is the cleverest web comic I read. Set in the year 3441, the crew of the Starship Fuseli take art and culture to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy.

Image via Wikipedia

» Continue reading Another fantastic webcomic - Starslip Crisis

CushyCMS - Take the work out of managing content via kwout

I’m researching what might be the best approach for creating a web page for a client with some limitations (i.e. html only hosting). Probably the most fantastic approach I’ve found so far is CushyCMS. CushyCMS lets you define editable areas in your plain HTML then lets your client edit a page’s content without touching the page itself.

» Continue reading CushyCMS - easy website editing

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

I instantly thought “Calvin and Hobbes” when I saw the second half of this… Then *WHAM*

photo credit: niallsco

Checking out the Photo Dropper Wordpress Plugin, that lets you search for a keyword, and insert creative commons flickr photos into your posts automagically. I’ve used Flickr photos in the past, but it’s taken some searching of flickr, and some copy-pasting to get them into Wordpress. Photo Dropper makes it much easier.

I’ll reserve judgement till I’ve tried it more, but it seems like it could be very useful.