8 December 2008
Glize and Ben are proud to announce the birth of our son, Aaron James, born on December 8th 2008 at 9.40pm weighing 3.3 kilograms.
He was two weeks early, so I wasn’t here at the time. I’ve been in Malolos since the 10th of December.
Aaron was baptimed at St. Joseph’s family church. Click here for some photos.
24 December 2008
AJView is a simple image viewer for Mac OS 10.5. AJView will not modify images.
After launching AJView, open a folder via the menu (File => Open Folder…), or by pressing Command-O.
The main options for viewing can be found in the View menu. Other options can be found in the preferences (File => Preferences, or by pressing Command-,).
| Key(s) | Function |
|---|---|
| l | Lock zoom to current level. The level of zoom will be applied to subsequent images viewed. |
| w | Fit images to the current window. This setting applies until the zoom level is changed. |
| + or = | Zoom in |
| - | Zoom out |
| 0 | View the image at actual size |
| f | Toggle full-screen mode |
| ←, ↑ or b | View the previous image |
| →, ↓ or n | View the next image |
| ⌘← or ⌘↑ | View the first image |
| ⌘→ or ⌘↓ | View the last image |
| r | Rotate image clock-wise by 90 degrees (buggy) |
Full-screen mode can also be accessed by double-clicking the main or thumbnail images. Double-clicking during full-screen mode also returns the view to a normal window. Full screen mode can also be closed by pressing the Esc or Q keys.
The thumbnail sizes can be controlled by moving the slider bar located below the thumbnails.
Images viewed in the normal window are scrollable if the size/zoom level is larger than the viewing panel. Move two-fingers on the touch-pad to scroll around the image.
AJView attempts to automatically rotate images according to the Orientation meta-data. This works for photos from Nikon cameras, but is untested on other cameras.
(self-explanatory)
Requires Mac 10.5 Leopard
Download AJView here. Open the DMG file and drag AJView into your Applications folder.
Automatially: drag the application folder into your favourite application deletion utility, such as AppZapper,
Manually: drag the application folder into the trash. Delete the file com.ajsoftware.AJView.plist found in home_directory/Library/Preferences.
25 September 2008
Glize and I were married in Malolos, Philippines on Sunday, September 14th.
My family flew up from Australia, and my buddies from Singapore.
The photographers haven’t delivered the photos yet. In the mean time, here are some photos taken by my brother Mark
We all piled into a van and flew down to Boracay, a beautiful tropical island, for a few relaxing days. Here are some pics taken there, and also some from Malolos and Manila
6 September 2008
I believe that I haven’t talked about the origin of Something Changed. Something Changed is a song by Pulp, my favourite band of all time. It’s about unexpected and amazing changes to one’s life. Something Changed on October 21st 2006 when I met Glize. As the lyrics go, When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing, that in a matter of hours we’d change the way we were going.
Something Changed, and the courses of our lives are becoming one on September 14th.
Something Changed:
22 August 2008
They tell me I don’t update this site frequently enough. I say I don’t have anything earth-shattering to unleash upon the world.
I recently picked up a copy of Textpattern Solutions and finally got a grip of what Textpattern is all about. Textpattern is the content management system that Something Changed is built on/around/in. After many years in the wilderness it now makes complete sense.
What you’re looking at now is a half-way revamp. A quick redesign and rebuild of SC. If the borders on these boxes have square corners then you need to use a real browser – Firefox or Safari are both good.
That’s it!