I originally wrote a jQuery plugin to draw files from an Imagistable JSON feed — that’s how the random thumbnails on the left-hand side of this page are added.

That plugin isn’t very usable for anybody other than myself, because well, nobody else can yet upload to Imagistable, so I’ve adapted the plugin to work on flickr, taking full advantage of their URL-based JSON API.

Usage is pretty simple:

1. Import the latest jQuery library and the jquery.flickr.js plugin
2. Set up some options. Only the flickr ID is required.
3. Apply the library to populate a designated div, like this: $(’#gallery’).flickr(options);

The usage is best described with a demo. Click here to view a demo page using the bare minimum of markup. A more comprehensive example, complete with styling and customised options can be viewed here.

The plugin can be downloaded here. A full description of the available options can be found in the source file.

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.

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

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:

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!