Jimmy's weblog

It seems Google is now making their Gmail webmail service available to more users. After inviting a few to my friends, I still have ten Gmail invitations available. If you are interested, drop me an email at jimmyharris AT gmail DOT com and I’ll invite you to join up.

Continuing on from last week’s post, here’s how I created a custom Galerie photo album based on a blogger.com template.
By default, Galerie stores its templates in the /Applications/Galerie/Galerie Templates/ directory (this can be changed in the preferences). I copied one of the directories and renamed it to “Blogger”.
The template directories contain a number of [...]

Another album uploaded to the site, this time from a hiking trip to Wilsons Promentary. Details of the trip are in a previous post.

The process of organising and uploading my photos continues, this time with an album from Perth in 2002 and another from a EuroTrash-themed birthday party last year.

I use Google-owned Blogger.com for this weblog and I’ve been very happy with the free service. It’s easy to create and manage posts and Blogger will allow you to host the blog on your own server so you don’t have to put up with any advertising (other than a small logo on your pages). [...]

Record companies are quick to squeal about their alleged billion dollar losses due to Internet file sharing, so wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect to see the effect on their bottom line? Apparently not when it comes to members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The latest financial results released by ARIA [...]

Melbourne has retained its number one position as the world’s best city, sharing first position with Vancouver and Vienna, and ironically finishing ahead of other Australian capitals due to its good weather. No doubt this will surprise residents of other Australian cities who enjoy making fun of our changeable climate, but after drowning [...]

Here’s an anonymous quote I found on the Internet, slightly adapted for Australian politics.
“The Liberal Party is the evil party, the Labor Party is the stupid party, and bipartisanship is when they join forces to do something both evil and stupid.”

I’ve been pretty slack in writing in my weblog over the last three weeks or so, mainly due to being very busy in work and play as well as being sick last week. Things have slowed a little now so hopefully I’ll have some more time to write and I’ve had some time to [...]