New Domain

February 15th, 2009


You can now access the site from http://HazelMcKendrick.com (I hope).

Ever so professional, right?

I guess I’ll probably just get it pointing to the About Me page when I update that. Which will be soon. Honestly. :(

On a related note, this means the site will probably be down for a couple of hours at some point, so I can get some things transfered and sorted out with my host.

More Changes.

February 3rd, 2009


So, any of you who’ve been hanging around longer than a couple of days (ok, so noone. You’ll just have to take my word for what follows) will have noticed that there have been a few changes around the site lately.

As you can see, for the first time I’m using a theme which I did not create myself. I have plans for how I’d like the site to look in future, but given my lack of time for web programming and my hatred of PHP, I suspect KCNB’s appearance may not change for some time. I do intend to keep updating the site, but I wouldn’t hold your breath for regular posts. I’ll write when I have something to say.

We Need Some Time Apart

January 5th, 2009


Suffice to say from my lack of updates (again), blogging isn’t really working out for me.  I’m kind of sick of this updating for a couple of months, having uni, and giving up again thing.  So I won’t be posting to KCNB in its current form any further.

However, I have found something which was working well for me: Tumblr. I guess most of those posts wont mean a lot to anyone but myself, but I found it a great way to keep my thoughts organised during a project and stay on top of links and sources I’ve used.

This in itself is not really enough: I’d like to have a space to maintain my portfolio of projects and games. So my intention is to cut things back here, have space for my work and use it more as a personal homepage, and incorportate a micro-blog into the site. This means I can easily share what’s going on in a way that is useful to both myself and hopefully to others facing similar problems, with a system I might actually use, and also have the space to make longer, more thought out posts if the need arrises.

Computing Posts From Across The Web Part II

August 30th, 2008


Probloggers group writing project is now over, so I thought I’d update you with some more top computing posts which were submitted in the third and final days. If you missed my first selection, you can check it out here. The post I submitted was 8 Reasons Why Every Computing Student Will Love Linux.

 

 
Did you enter a post in the Problogger group writing project? Or have you written a computing related post recently you’d like to share?
Feel free to share your links in the comments.

Computing Posts from Across the Web: The Best of Problogger’s Group Writing Project.

August 28th, 2008


Recently Problogger announced a group writing project encouraging bloggers to write a post on any topic, focussing on giving it a killer title. I’ve been looking through the list of entries so far, and I wanted to share some of the top computing related posts.

  1. 5 Reasons You Should Use Plain Text To Save Your Data from Rarst. A short, but informative and convincing post on the benefits of using plain text to store your documents.
  2. But Mom, You Guys Look at Porn Sites Too from Data-Drop. An amusing post on the importance of cleaning your cache and browser history.
  3. Memo: Please Erase All Memories of Lost Memory from Tech Cult. Thoughts on the Britains current trend of regularly loosing our personal data.
  4. Geek-Speak and Legaleze – Fess Up! from GrowMap. A portrayal of how inexperienced users feel about the technical terms open source users find commonplace, and the amount of legal jargon found on the web.
  5. 9 Super Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now from Listropolis. A list of the hottest betas online right now.
  6. Best Blog Footers are Standalone Creations from Webomatik. Views on why great footers are important for websites, and a selection of strong examples.
  7. 9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client from Just Creative Design. A selection of ideas from presenting mockups of websites to a less than tech-savvy client.

I hope you find some of those links useful. As for me, I entered my post 8 Reasons Why Every Computing Student Will Love Linux.

Today is the final day of the project, so I’ll update this list with the best of todays entries when it is published tomorrow. If you’ve entered, feel free to link to your post in the comments below.