http://www.gregory-brine.com Gregory Brine personal website Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:49:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've had my old Wordpress theme - Neoclassical by Chris Pearson - for a while, and as well as it's done me, I'm bored of it. It was nice, it worked, no-one ever complained. But is that enough? Well, no. Before I talk about why I went with this theme, you need ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/97sJiaP0Xsc/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2009/10/01/using-the-unstandard-wordpress-theme/ I feel I need to start this blog by reliving part of my old site. When I went travelling back in 2005, my friend Pete and I had been working on building our own CMS/site combo in PHP. The tools we built allowed me to easily upload my travel photos ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/19sTSUM74jk/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2009/08/12/my-second-wordpress-plugin-this-time-its-a-gallery/ Everyone knows @likeomg and me created a new species for Amnesia Razorfish in the Velociroflcoptersaurus recently. That ballooned into a social media competition spanning across Twitter and the search engines and is somewhat of an urban legend now. At the last count, there was around 7,500 results in Google and 15,600 ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/1OCIq6IRmoQ/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2009/02/04/see-my-inteview-about-the-velociroflcoptersaurus-story-with-likeomg-eunmac-delic8genius/ I'm at that point where my blogging has calmed right down. I used to write several blogs a week, either for work or for myself. But of late, I've been struggling to get the inspiration and I'm not sure why. To defend myself on how slack I've been, I love writing, ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/rGnhCrVgUmI/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2009/01/23/i-should-write-more-blogs/ So I've been on detox for a week now, and lot of people doubted I'd make it even this far, let alone finish. Why? Because I'm known for my going out antics, love of a good beer and a good cup of coffee. What makes it worse is that the detox ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/FngpSWzdr2U/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2009/01/12/end-of-th-first-week-of-detox/ So it's not quite perfect yet. I still need to finish updating a few bits of it - like the left nav and the archive. But this blog is to give a big shout to the guys at NCL Hosting! Transfering my site across, and moving the domain proved a little ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/YejUZCnbFOQ/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2008/12/22/thanks-ncl-hosting-site-is-back-up-and-running/ Have you heard of this legend? Very few have seen it, but apparently it appears only during fits of uncontrollable laughter. It was first reported in the Amnesia Razorfish offices in Sydney, but word has it that it has started to migrate through channels such as Twitter and Google. We will be ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/BjNzfU3SoU0/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2008/12/04/the-legend-of-the-velociroflcoptersaurus/ We all know and love round the clock on the pool table. It's simple, fun, and challenging at times. But, today, whilst in the pub, we decided to add a drinking twist to it. And I thought I'd share our idea with you. Feel free to comment and let me ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/nUa5MAJWIBU/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2008/10/25/round-the-clock-pool-with-a-beer-drinking-game-twist/ For those of you that haven't discovered their site, I highly recommend that you check out the Smashing Magazine website. They carry a great range of how to's and example of beautiful things. This can range from photos to websites. Font to stencils. I don't know how they find them ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/d9-3vNQK5Ek/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2008/10/21/smashing-magazines-article-50-beautiful-movie-posters/ Yesterday - Saturday 27th October - must have been one of the most perfect spring days in Sydney since I've been here. It was around 30degrees, clear sky and a very light wind to keep it pretty much perfect. It was Dave's stag do, so we figured a day at the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gregory-brine-com/~3/7cy82-UhFAs/ http://www.gregory-brine.com/2008/09/28/spring-carnival-randwick-racecourse-eat-churasco-coogee/