Category Archives: meaningful labor

I’m going to move my blog…

I want to get away from this current site, it doesn’t show off anything of my professional work nor does the site itself actually resemble or build on anything I’ve made (apart, obviously, from WordPress site implementations). How to go … Continue reading

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Site Launch — Tales of the Unexpected

Last week saw the launch of TOTU: Tales of the Unexpected, a Summer Madness and Exodus project. The site was developed by me with visual identity design by Connie & Craig, the super-talented folks over at

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Admit it, you’re one of them huff duffers aren’t you?

Today I huffduffed for the first time. I’ve planned to for a while… The word Huffduffer derives from a technology called Huff-Duff [HF/DF] that was used to triangulate the position of radio transmissions. Huffduffing on the web is a way … Continue reading

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Simple Thinking Sphinx on Dreamhost

*** Please note – this will probably not work (at all) (for more than a day of light use) without Cron use. And isn’t at all authorised by Dreamhost!! *** For a recent client project I’ve used a Dreamhost unlimited … Continue reading

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Rails / LAMP / WordPress Setup Guide

I’ve had huge amounts of pain getting WordPress set up locally over the last few weeks on my old machine and when it struck again with my new development environment it definitely time to write down the required steps to … Continue reading

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Git Pro Tips!

Stumbled across this fella on Twitter today, noticed he worked at Slide (who make successful/annoying Facebook Apps). None the less (I joke) he writes a blog at http://www.unethicalblogger.com/ and has recently been writing a series of ‘ProTips’ on using Git … Continue reading

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Final Cut Express Choppy Output Resolved

Final Cut Express seems by default (or maybe I did it) set the default Render frame rate to 50% to speed up the NLE previewing process. These render files however are the same ones that are used to put together … Continue reading

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Belfast Giants Cardiff Devils LIVE FREE WEBCAST

Hi All This Saturday evening Live from the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, HiDavid Ltd and giantslive.com are proud to present to you the Belfast Giants in action for the first time this season as they face the Cardiff … Continue reading

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One thing… (aka. The joys of rendering)

There is one thing that would put me off the notion of working semi-professionally in the video field. That thing is Rendering. Rendering is when you take some source videos, audio and whatever processing you wish to apply to them … Continue reading

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Angus Buchan Mission Northern Ireland

Check out http://www.healingtheland.net/ for information about the mission going on in Newtownabbey this week starting Sunday evening and continuing til Wednesday. (Follows in Magherafelt). There’s two videos on the right hand side of that page which I put together for … Continue reading

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