Hello, my name is Sandy. I'm an artist/designer in Perth, Western Australia. This site is the hub of my internet home.

In the last couple of months, I have been introduced to the aural pleasure that is Gui Boratto. I’m not very good at naming music genres, but if it helps, I was asking for “tech house” when he was recommended. Above is a Gui remix of a recent Pet Shop Boys song. If you can get a hold of his 2009 Essentials Mix too, you won’t regret it. :)

Got archives working. w00ty! Definitely not as straightforward as I expected of WordPress; wouldn’t instinctively create a Page for it, although it probably makes perfect sense to an average smart person.

Permalink. Posted 29 August, 2010. Tagged: music, wordpress.

The company I work for announced today that it would launch a series of new broadband plans with a massive quota allocation.

• This is the press release they put out
• This is a pretty FAQ about the new plans

The biggest plan in the suite is ONE TERABYTEzomg, which is pretty cool considering I’m on ADSL1 at the moment and have been shaped for the last 3 days. :(

In my head, all this means broadband in Australia is officially getting to be a utility like water and power.

Although – strange that we take water and power for granted, harming the environment in the process; but we’re still mindful of safe, eco-friendly internet quota because it’s shape-able or bill-able. Would be interesting to see if and how these fat plans change our internet habits.

It’s webmaster time at the moment. Some late nights and random encounters that we should probably send to Clients from Hell. Padding my evenings out with Starcraft 2; just the campaign and custom maps so far. Still too scared to play a ranked match. Check out this sick third-person shooter mod, by the way. How awesome must the map-maker be. :)

Well, I’m off. Long-ass day today. Time for more funs.

Permalink. Posted 18 August, 2010. Tagged: environment, internet, starcraft 2, technology, web stuff.

The Expendables. Gratuitous, brutish, indulgent, completely unashamed of its tenuous storyline and crass dialogue. This is 2 hours of pointless, action-packed entertainment – indeed it has plumbed beyond the depths of shit and emerged victoriously brilliant out the other side.

Awesome closure to a good weekend. I scored a goal today too, and had pizza pockets for tea. :) Happy!

Permalink. Posted 15 August, 2010. Tagged: boy stuff, football, shit films appreciation, snacks.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had a blog on here. I’ve been looking with envy at all my mates’ blogs – pretty, shiny, running on WordPress. Well, I’ve had about all the envy I can swallow. After ten years of shuffling through different content management systems, I’m back.

And I’m apprehensive. Hosting a blog feels like raising a pet. You have to look after it, feed it, be responsible for its archives. As I write this, my cat is chewing a bit of plastic she found on the floor.

Does anyone remember when WordPress was still b2? I was a MovableType-er then, fresh off the Blogger boat as what we today call “social media” had just begun its maiden voyage. After that: Textpattern, a stunning CMS; tidy, for the blog developer who’s a little OCD about structure. I still run a few sites on it, though my installs are well out of date now.

With web 2.0 and the new smartphone era approaching, luck would have me awaken unto a new dawn of nightlife, drinking and being regretfully hungover the next day, with no time or motivation to dick around with plugins and server configs to set up a moblog. So off to a free service I went. First, a Romanian moblog provider that no longer exists; then to Vox for a couple of years; then to the okaysandy blog at Blogspot… and now here again.

I’m not the feverish stay-up-all-night web developer I used to be. Those days are behind me. It’s been 6 years since I pulled an all-nighter on a personal project. I’m almost 29 now; a web producer. I can’t stay up as late anymore cos I get tired and sad. I can’t remember how to just fix shit. I can’t even tell my cat to stop eating plastic off the floor.

But I would like to… kinda. It feels like I’ve been coasting a bit. About a year ago, I found myself quite anxious and depressed, so I got back into art and music – stuff I used to enjoy heaps; back into writing again, making zines. I’ve had a pretty good run since, and I’d like to get excited about my web projects again too.

So I’m doing some blogging here again. Don’t know how long for, but you know how it goes.

Wow, so here’s my first post, totally about something uninteresting… Still got it. :)

Permalink. Posted 9 August, 2010. Tagged: blogging, cats, sharing, wordpress.

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Permalink. Posted 8 August, 2010.