http://syllie.com I speak geek Sun, 23 May 2010 00:32:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wordpress Developer Sometimes all things seem to happen at once. I have been working hard this week - creating a new Wordpress template for one of our clients and slowly I feel more like a WP developer. I had a discussion on such matter before - some years ago. This was with ... http://syllie.com/?p=351 Time flies! I think that almost evey article I write can start with the title "busy busy busy" - but what would that add? I need to find a proper balance between computer stuff for fun, computer stuff for work and other activities. My dude is a hardcore computer geek - ... http://syllie.com/?p=348 A long time ago I wrote a post with a question.. how do people find the way to my blog (and why would they want to find my blog as it contains mostly personal stuff)? At that time I had a vague notion about search engine optimisation - SEO - ... http://syllie.com/?p=343 Cat update Our poor kitties have had serious down moments and one night Dax had serious respiration problems. My mate took her into the bathroom, opened the hot water tap to generate steam and ease her breathing. Next morning we both took them back to the RSPCA vet. They checked them ... http://syllie.com/?p=340 As I wrote in my previous post, we went to the RSPCA and picked up the 2 cutest kitties. They are awesome! Moogie is very well adjusted and a bit more reserved but loves to cuddle, gives happy nudges and has a purring engine that would make a Benz jealous. ... http://syllie.com/?p=338 Job Hunting I really enjoy my life in Oz and I have enjoyed extreme freedom in doing freelance work and creating our resources site verysimpledesigns.com. And whilst my partner encouraged me to continu my solo ventures, I thought it would be good to look around for a cool job that at ... http://syllie.com/?p=326 I am working on improvement of the Joomla! template we use on verysimpledesigns.com. And as that is mostly an after hours job, it progresses slowly. I have to divide my attention to creating new content, finishing tutorials and re-design. All fun to do, but it is sometimes more fun to ... http://syllie.com/?p=318 I started to write a tutorial about seamless pattern creation in Inkscape a long time ago. I really struggled with it, as I was afraid it would not show enough original content, and also because the use of seamless patterns within Inkscape comes with quite some limitations. Through verysimpledesigns.com I received ... http://syllie.com/?p=309 When we started with verysimpledesigns.com last December, we did things low profile as we were frantically going through our designs to decide what could be used for download, what could be turned into a tutorial and we were not really sure what direction to take yet. Thing is that we design ... http://syllie.com/?p=306 Our cute cat Most weeks life goes by in a nice reasonably predictable way and the days sorta smoothly roll over from one into another. Other weeks things happen like wild water rafting. This was such a week. Worst thing that happened was that our cute cat got hit by a ... http://syllie.com/?p=300