Here’s my last photo for the year decade! It’s the 9:30pm fireworks at Wollongong harbour, as seen from Bulli tops, like my other steel works photo (my camera can zoom in a long way!).

You can download a larger version:
Wollongong NYE 2009 (3.8MB)

It’s a panorama made up from a couple of 15 second exposures. The RAW files were batch processed in Photoshop, then stitched in Autostitch.

Almost a year after it was started, my Lego Star Wars stop-motion video is complete. I had actually finished the animation quite a while ago, it just needed a sound-track, which I finished on the weekend.

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Text editors annoy me. Microsoft Word is too slow and is usually overkill. Apple’s TextEdit and other RTF editors are good, but usually a little too basic.

That’s why I have decided to create my own text editor. It uses Adobe Air, so I can create it in a similar way to creating a website (with HTML/CSS/Javascript). Adobe Air also means it will be cross platform — Mac, Windows (and Linux coming soon). It is based on TinyMCE with a totally custom interface, with much less clutter.

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I have started to create a new version of the SWF Object Generator. The old one doesn’t look very nice, so I decided to make it a bit nicer.

Because the audience of this is mainly web developers, and all web developers shouldn’t be using Internet Explorer, I decided to totally not support internet explorer, and have fun with new CSS styles! (This is a very rare opportunity)

My version is based on the old one (copy/paste code, then modified) which means I have released it under the MIT license.

It still has has a lot of work to do (like adding javascript tooltips on the help messages).

This is the best panorama I’ve ever made. It is made up of 25 long exposure (2 sec) images. After hours of stitching and enhancing, I finally finished this 15000 pixel wide (yes! Fifteen-thousand) masterpiece.

I stitched it together with Autostitch on my 4 year old PC because the program isn’t free on Mac. It did something weird when I stitched all 25 photos at once. I then decided to stitch them in 4 smaller sets them stitch the 4 together. It finally worked in the end after about 4 hours of rendering, blending and option tweaking.

I don’t plan to do another one of these in a while!

I have now made a to-do list for my new content management system “Filing Cabinet”. It is not complete but if you are interested it will give you an idea of what I’ve been doing.

I have resumed work on my new content management system, Filing Cabinet.

I haven’t posted much information about it at all yet but a mini site is coming sometime soon. Basically, Filing Cabinet is a Content Management System (CMS) that uses all the modern web technologies. It uses AJAX, XHTML, CSS.

I took this photo a few years ago and i liked i but I just left it sitting around. I finally remembered it again and decided to enhance it as it was very pale and washed because I took the photo on a cloudy day.