Black Ops.
Thursday 19 June, 2008
The boffins at Atomic Ninja Labs are occasionally called upon to assist others with design and project work as well as bang spanners on personal side projects — this is a rough journal, or store-house as it were of recent creative designs, experiments and more-or-less stable code.
The lab boffins are not-for-hire, however may consider contributing to projects that take their fancy. Shiny toys and devices that go bing may tempt the monkeys out from The Lab.
Presenting in no particular order, the whirlwind sixty-second tour (frequent course language and nudity not included):
Recent design work.
Amateur Neurotica — a simple blue design, with a focus on clear serif-based typography. Text sizes are intentionally beefed up for legibility and to help accentuate white space.
Atomic Ninja Labs — home base and test-centre for crazy caffeine obsessed boffins. Designed to be an easily read source of news, views and generally crazed talk.
101 Fun uses for XML.
Shortwave Search — a Firefox search plugin for Shaun Inman’s fantastic Shortwave javascript powered bookmarklet and command driven meta-search tool.
Got Qurli?
Get Qurli — a simple, fast and friendly service to turn stupidly long and unmanageable URLs into svelte short links. Spreading the ‘curly’ love, one link at a time.
If you have comments to make on the above, or would like to engage a boffin in discussion over pretty much any project or pretence, please do make contact using the form below.
If you prefer to drive email (and who doesn’t) try the make contact link in the footer below.
Thank you and goodnight.
About.
Thursday 24 April, 2008
The Atomic Ninja Labs was born out of a need to have a home for the author’s wacky experiments, discoveries and generally irrepressible nerdery — I highly recommend the sixty-second whirl-wind tour.
Presently authored by Brendan Borlase1, the labs run on (dv) dedicated virtual servers supplied by the equally irrepressible boffins at Media Temple and served in (mostly) valid XHTML by the CMS platform TXP.
The author is a professional geek2, residing in Adelaide, Australia. When he isn’t pulling WinTel servers apart, researching the next hair-brained scheme or rummaging through PHP and CSS code he can occasionally be glimpsed running around Team Fortress 2 with axe and flame-thrower.
Should you wish to follow the author’s exploits beyond the lab, you can do so in a number of ways:
You may have noted that there is currently no method to post comments in any article — the author feels strongly that communication is of greater value to that of comment alone. As a result, visitor and regular alike are most welcome to and indeed encouraged to make contact.
1 With occasional guest writers.
2 Systems Administrator and Wrangler.
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