For a tasty treat visit the new MON Blog, Haloumi Parmigiana.

I can blog about train delays now – except of course if I’m stuck in a tunnel with no mobile coverage.

I’m also getting pretty sick of typing this post on the soft keyboard. In three paragraphs! Still, it’s far better than my old Palm and it’s grafitti… Enough for now!

Oh, and a photo of Dino is attached because I can!

Mobisnap was never intended to be coded (by me at least). But I’ve always liked the idea of a mobile photo editor and I’d love to see it in action…

So therefore, if anyone wants to take this project on-board I’d love to support it! I’d like to see it developed using the Official iPhone SDK (it can’t be that hard to raise $99 online can it?). If there is enough interest, it might make a cute little open-source project.

Scroll back through the DECO1200 category for more information on the application design, I’m sure it will be useful!

Post comments with ideas, suggestions!

Due to the incredible amount of spam that has been hitting the site recently, we’ve changed the comment publishing policy to be moderated before publication. So those of you leaving legitimate comments, don’t fear, they will be published.

As you can see, Colonel is a bit stir crazy from all the time off. So we’re going to try and get into a more regular blogging pattern from now on. He could post a trip-report of his world tour, but “my photos are at home”, he says.

Of course, like most new-years resolutions, saying we’ll blog more often has been made to be broken.

Futher to tradition, I also tend to begin the year by posting ideas for the website in coming months. But of course I don’t get to them. On the current MON to-do list is a redesign of the blogs. The current WordPress theme has served us well since 2005, but it doesn’t support WP Tagging, the sidebar has become an unruly list of dates (which no-one cares about [much like the blog itself]), and quite honestly it just needs a good update So that hopefully will come soon. I have some Photoshop mockups of what I want it to look like. I just have to implement it using the Plaintxt Sandbox theme as a base. In the meantime, here is a sneak-peek at what’s to come on The MON Blogs.

Also in MON Update news, there is a longer term goal to post content more regularly to the site. Hopefully with the benefit of people actually seeing it. If anyone does read this, please post some opinions of the rest of the MON Site. Pretty please?

Yay!

Go and explore my final Minisite. It’s Appleicious! Probably too Appleicious… But I didn’t steal much from them – just their whole company branding… But that’s all. Really. I’ve Photoshopped (sorry, manipulated imagery using the Adobe Photoshop image editing software. Damn US trademark law…) all of the graphics myself.

I wish I had been able to improve the prototype further, but Flash was beginning to get upset with me… Note to self: next time, don’t use keyframe animation to make an application.

Anyway, enough with the chatter. The website is available on my uni web-space or from MON Productions. Whichever you prefer.

I’m off now

Right now, my biggest worry isn’t actually my website submission. It’s actually the rumble of thunder above my house. I need compy to have power for a few more hours yet! Especially given the state of the power-grid down here… If the power dies before 5:00 I’m going to be very annoyed.

In other news, Apple did actually update the MacBooks. Very quietly indeed – i.e. they’re shipping with no announcements. They’ve been bumped to the new(er) Intel Santa Rosa chipset with the new X3100 graphics card. So do I want to go and buy one now?? They’re very nice… Although I’m freaked out by the concept of spending $1700 on a computer (spending $1200 on a ski-trip is fine…). On the other hand, it means no more updates for 6 months…

On the DECO1200 front, Minisite 3 is progressing nicely. I’ve just got to decide where to put what… Not fun. But the design is done, and it’s looking exceptionally shiny (Apple eat your heart out!).

Speaking of Apple, there are rumours floating about of new MacBooks being released tomorrow… With faster CPUs and better graphics cards courtesy of Intel. The only problem for me is should I a) buy now, have a cool toy for the holidays and figure out how to use MacOS X before uni goes back; or b) wait until just before uni goes back, wait until other people work out the bugs inherent in 1st Generation Apple hardware (not to mention Leopard), benefit from the 9 cents of interest I can earn until February and then grab myself a Mac? Decisions, decisions.

In other news, I’m still waiting on bloody Australia Post to deliver my copy of Half-Life 2: Orange Box. I’ve finally got my desktop stable (my Radeon x1950 Pro killed motherboards). It apparently shipped last Monday from Brisbane. I want Portal dammit!

We also handed in the evil final DECO1008 3d modelling render today, it was worth 80%. Hopefully Steven and Marc think it’s as shiny as I do. I’m actually quite proud of it, and it’s developed a fair bit in the past few days. Thanks to Kaz for his comments and suggestions – although I never did get the “crapification” layer to look right.

Now, the only assignment left is DECO1200 Minisite 3. It will blow your mind!

Thanks too to Rob for being one of the few lecturers we’ve had who has given useful comments, actually been interesting to listen to and hasn’t been abusive towards us (well, only 1 lecturer falls into that category). Cheers!