Well after a few years of hanging out here… I’m moving to tumblr! Keep up with me at http://tumble.timokeller.net 
So this year we got a lot of really fun April Fool’s jokes and gags. Google, as always, was awesome! Thank you for the fun Google! I also managed to catch out Alain and Luke, which was endlessly entertaining.
gDAY with MATE - Not bad
http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html
Gmail CustomTime - Quite Funny
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
Virgle - Clever, clever, clever!
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html and http://www.youtube.com/user/projectvirgle
-Tim
Hello hello!
So here’s something worth admitting: I’ve been running Wordpress 2.0 since 2006 and have never once bothered to upgrade to the latest version - unlike Jonathan who seems to update to the current stable almost daily! So without further ado, let me welcome you to the new Wordpress2.5′d timokeller.net 2.0. I designed this rather simple theme to run on the effortlessly awesome K2 theme for wordpress, and I think its come out okay. Suggestions?
Congrats to the Wordpress guys on a stunning new WP-ADMIN panel and the already huge number of downloads they have received. Its funny how even though its just a blogging script, it gets much more attention than Drupal releasing 6.1!
I’ve spent most of the past four months working on ChirpFX, a simple MVC Framework for developing human-centric web applications in PHP 5. The first application to use the framework is ChirpSchool - a highly extensible webapp for school and student management, assessment, promotion and monitoring. Its been picked up by the likes of Sun Valley Primary School and other local schools, and we’re looking forward to expanding at a rather exciting pace. We’ll have a promo website up soon with more information. More on that in the coming weeks.
If you want to keep an eye on me, follow me on Twitter. If you’re not on Twitter yet I’d highly suggest you join - its a really interesting way to interact with friends and followers!
Schedule for the next few weeks:
- Cognitive Behaviour Analysis Tutorial Assignment and Project
- Computer Science Network Architecture Tutorial 2 and Test
- Professional Communication Unit Paper due
- Deliver SMS and Assessment Modules of ChirpSchool
- See lots of Amy!
Thanks for catching up! See you on Twitter.
Tim
Hey all
It has - yet again - been ages since I’ve posted. Sorry to keep you *all* waiting!
We here at OneWebStudios have had great fun writing a lot of code over the past year, in various languages, and so today I’m pleased to announce that we’re going to start opensourcing certain projects. This won’t happen overnight, nor will it include our major projects (ChirpSchool, etc) but it will include smaller projects that we’d love some help with. If you’re keen to join the OWS family, drop us a comment on this blog post.
In the meantime, watch www.timokeller.net/opensource for news.
Tim
Matrics across the Western Cape will rewrite Paper 2 of the English Exam on November 23 said a spokesperson for the WCED this morning. This story courtesy of www.iol.co.za [direct link to article]
Western Cape matric students are to rewrite an English paper after it emerged that it was handed out in error in an earlier exam.
The province’s education department said the English first language higher grade paper two would be rewritten on November 23.
It said the paper was mistakenly handed to some candidates at the South African College High School (SACS) on October 10, the day before the exam, and details of it had spread to other schools.
The department had terminated the contract of the chief invigilator at SACS and had issued a verbal warning to the head of the English department at the school. - Sapa
I’d like to state categorically that I think this is a pathetic waste of time. If 5% of the Western Cape students were even aware of the leak it would be a lot, an even smaller percentage of those would be aware of the paper’s content. The “termination” of the chief invigilator’s contract is without a doubt a desperate reaction by the WCED to save face. Surely the invigilator in question made an honest mistake? And a verbal warning to the Head of English at SACS? Hello?! What is this world coming to?
The interface on my gmail account is clearly new and revised. Its not earth shattering, or even earth-trembling… but its something.
New features found:
- Ability to Attach an Event Invitation
- Revised Gtalk Gadget
- Prefetching of messages so there is no waiting when you click to open an email.
- AMAZING new contacts manager
- “Old Version” button
- “Loading box” is now yellow and centered
- Initial Loading screen now features an Arial “Loading…” rather than Times New Roman
-Tim
Greetings kind readers,
I’m on study leave this week as I prepare to write what I predict will be the final Mathematics (Calculus) exam of my life, the next Computer Science exam of my life, and the similarly next Psychology exam I must write in order to inch closer to my eventual Bachelor of Science.
I can’t recall the last time I typed ‘www.cnet.com’ into my browser’s (Firefox 3-Alpha9-Nightly, by the way) address bar - and yet I seem to be finding my way over there increasingly often via Digg, Reddit and other links. Anyway, my point is there is a blog called The Digital Home by a freelance tech journalist named Don Reisinger whom you may recognise as a (now fairly regular) TWiT.tv panelist which keeps appearing in the most popular section on the website - and it most certainly worth your subscribing to his RSS feed.
Don’s just published a piece on why Leopard will open the Mac OS X floodgates (and embarrass Microsoft) which is not only well written, but very insightful.
Word on the street is that Apple will be releasing a new range of MacBook laptops soon (like really soon). If such an event comes to pass I will be deeply, deeply tempted to make a purchase.
Kinda important or cool things on the web at the moment
- Google’s Facebook killer?
- Make your linux look like Mac OSX
- The Prism Project from Mozilla
- Aptana IDE
- Myst Online: Try the free demo!
Later. [TK]