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    • Apr21

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      Finally! (Warning! Geek Speak Alert!)

      Posted in: Site News

      So after much pfaffing about, I finally have the new design live.

      I was pulling my hair out trying to get things working, constantly making tiny changes and then FTPing them to the server. I was so sick of it that today I finally installed WAMP here and WordPress on that machine.

      Talk about time saving, all coding complete and tested within 3 hours. Few tweaks to the graphics and I was done!

      So with the hard part over, all I had to do was upload via FTP and change to the new Kitty Loves Japan Template, sort out the placement of a few Widgets and their content, and voila!

      In other great news, the Shop is almost ready to go back online – I’ve downloaded and installed eShop for WordPress, and hope to have it all working as I want by the end of next weekend. It’s also a good process to learn for potential clients, as most carts are simply too excessive for the small business that only wants to upload a new product every other week!

      I’m really looking forward to your feedback about the design :)

    • Apr15

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      Playing With Your Food – Totally Allowed

      Posted in: Japan

      Noodle Slide

      Noodle Slide

      This awesome object is from Bandai – the same people who make Transformers and ReMent.

      Basically, it’s a noodle slide – the noodles slide down in a stream of water, to land in a dish that has an inbuilt strainer.

      The noodles come out of the tiny house at the top – how kawaii is that?

      Little Noodle House

      Little Noodle House

      Bandai are selling these for ¥8,400. You’ll never have to drag your kids to the kitchen table again!

      Kid's will eat it up!

      Kid's will eat it up!

      I’ll be trying to get one of these on my next trip to Japan.

    • Apr14

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      Easter

      Posted in: Australia

      I’m not a religious person, so the only reason I celebrate Christian Holidays is that my Government forces me to take the days off work, and shuts down the entire country for them. I don’t really understand why we celebrate the holy days of one religion, and not those of another, but that’s just how Australia is.

      I use these holidays as a time to recover and relax with family and friends. To reconnect with people, who like most of us, are so busy during the rest of the year that these holidays are the only time we can get to spends hours together.

      Because I cannot actually see my family at Easter as they live on the opposite side of the country, I spend time with close friends, and my Husband’s family. Husband’s family tend to have a huge family gathering that consists of about 30 people or more, all bringing a dish to complement the Host Family’s already beautiful spread of delicious food. We exchange eggs, eat a wonderful meal, catch up on new happenings, and reminisce about old happenings.

      All in all, it’s rather a lovely thing to do when you all have the same day off from the mundane routine of daily life.

      Happy Easter

      Happy Easter everyone! I hope you too spent time with those you love.

    • Apr6

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      Australian Broadband – Oxymoron or Myth?

      Posted in: Australia, Site News

      The reason for no posts in the past little while, is that the bandwidth for my internet connection at home has been throttled.

      Basically, living in Australia – broadband means you get really OK speeds (nothing like you get in Japan or North America) until you use your pitiful allotted quota of bandwidth for the month, and then you are slapped hard on the wrist with a wet wooden ruler and your internet speed is cut back to that of a 1992 modem.

      You may think I joke, but I do not. I have been unable to view photos on Flickr, read my favourite websites or even simply watch a single YouTube video. It’s been a LOLcat free zone and for that reason alone I hate how Broadband is metered out here in Australia.

      I actually have spent the time a little productively. I have around 100 photos to upload to flickr, not all Blythe related (mostly cars actually), a new website design for a client to go live and a new design in the works for here, as promised.

      This site will commence to be mirrored at Pixelkitty.net as well, because it’s the longest running domain name I’ve ever owned, and I feel I’m neglecting it.

      Check back next week for updates, photos and pretty colours.

    • Mar27

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      ATM Skimmers – Could you spot one?

      Posted in: Australia

      Recently here in Melbourne, a bunch of Romanians decided to fit skimming devices to various ATMs around the city, and many people were relieved of their cash.

      Now, watching the story on the news, I thought “wow, how dumb would you have to be to use an ATM that has a device fitted? That giant grey box is sooooo obvious.”

      Then I was emailed this fantastic PDF from the Commonwealth Bank about Skimmers, how to spot them, how they work and how to report them.

      On the ATM, a skimmer is undectable to you and me. There just doesn’t seem to be anything there. Until they remove the skimmer itself you wouldn’t even know it was installed.

      So, please feel free to link to or distribute the below PDF, and don’t feel you’ve been at all silly for not spotting one – I know I couldn’t have!

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