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The Blog Is Dead. Long Live the Blog(s).

SkySigal — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:57:00 GMT

I'm killing this blog. The reasons are several: The primary reason is that I've come to hate DNN that much. I can't bear to go back in and fight it one more time. So I'm just going to let it rot here in the breeze tills it falls off the tree and that's that. For future blog posts, I'm going to use the following links: tech.blog.skysigal.com me.blog.skysigal.com I'm splitting my posts into two because I know I rant...and that...distracts from discus ...

Well…that was a TOTAL nightmare…

SkySigal — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:15:14 GMT

I didn’t think I could hate DNN more.

I was wrong.

Gonna Get Rough…

SkySigal — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:07:21 GMT

Sorry for the appearance for a while…going to have to do an in-situ update of this crappy old DNN site…

And things are going to go …shpong… while I remove a custom skin, and try to get back to something upgradeable…

Design for the Mobile

SkySigal — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:19:28 GMT

Rank . Country . . . . . Population . . Subs . Sm'phones . Migr.Rt . . Per Capita1 . . . . Singapore . . . . . . . . . 4.9 . . . 8.1 . . . 4.4 . . . . 54% . . . . 90%2 . . . . Hong Kong *** . . . . . 8.0 . . . 14.0 . . . 4.9 . . . . 35% . . . . 61%3 . . . . Sweden . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 . . . 13.6 . . . 4.8 . . . . 35% . . . . 52%4 . . . . Australia . . . . . . . . . 21.6 . . . 29.8 . . ...

Parenting

SkySigal — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:42:44 GMT

I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend. Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it." The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able ...

Could not get much worse

SkySigal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:04:00 GMT

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia's long-awaited Windows phones may be too little, too late in the smartphone war dominated by Apple and Google, despite positive reviews by handset critics.Its first Windows model, the Lumia 800, has won little interest from consumers, with only 2 percent of Europeans in the market for a smartphone saying they would pick it, according to a survey by Exane BNP Paribas. Never thought I would see the day, but with Windows 8 only coming out at the end of next year, MS, as a des ...

Old Newspapers

SkySigal — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:13:10 GMT

… and my Dad… Src: http://bit.ly/ssph7Q

Complex v. Complicated v. Simple v. Sh**

SkySigal — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:24:23 GMT

I’m still annoyed. Last week someone wrote off a whole bunch of work because it was too complex. Reminded me of Amadeus….”too many notes.” Simple really means “guess what – if it’s easy there’s lots of competition”. A burger joint is a simple. It’s repetitious, easily understood, and frankly nobody cares. You own a burger joint, you aren’t making the world any better. Complicated is the opposite. A complicated system means it has too many wires, bits, pieces, etc. hanging out all over the place. its expens ...

Anglo-Saxon boozers

SkySigal — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:14:51 GMT

Britain is the drunk man of Europe. Alcohol consumption in France, Germany and Italy is down by between 37 and 52 per cent since 1980. But in the UK it is up nine per cent, with binge drinkers sinking more booze than ever, putting unprecedented pressure on the NHS, police and social services. Src: http://ind.pn/t5XDTN And as for NZ…it’s depressing: http://bit.ly/uCDkYw

NZ’s shame

SkySigal — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:06:17 GMT

"Bullying and fighting is a national issue” That’s unfortunately true. But if that weren’t bad enough, what happened to this 14 year old girl is sooooo far beyond “bullying”! A school beating that leaves here with spinal injuries?!? Are you kidding?!? “Adriana Kemp has several screws in her head to help her recover from spinal injuries after she was repeatedly punched by two girls at Flaxmere College.” That’s criminal assault! God help our children if the country can’t recognize what that was. htt ...