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New forum for Australian Reptile Keepers

June 5th, 2009 · No Comments


There's a new Reptile forum on the Australian scene, known as the Herp Community Network

Herp Community Network

"Herp Community Network aims to be a contact medium for today's Reptile lover. We welcome and invite anybody to join us whether it be the Professional Reptile keeper or those of who are generally interested in Australian Reptiles.

What makes us different to the rest is that we aim to allow you full access to HCN services free of charge…"

If you are a fan of Aussie Pythons, Elapids, Dragons, Geckos or Turtles then you should pop in and say Hi.

We have our first competition up and running now, where all members are eligible to to enter the competition to win a Darwin Carpet Python. For more information, click the banner below.

Win a Darwin Carpet Python

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Gimp Button Updated

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments


With the release of Picasa 3 and Gimp 2.6, i revised the button slightly. There were no changes required for Picasa 3 support, however a slight change was required for Gimp 2.6.

More information can be found here

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Measuring Reptiles

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments


After trying to use a few different methods to get an accurate measure of the length of a snake, I found a piece of software called Snake Measurer (available at Serpentine Widgets) that allows you to measure them using an image after doing some simple calibration. While this works fine, I find it a lacking a few features and so (since I am a geek) I wrote my own, more feature complete version for fun Laughing

There is more informationavailable here

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Edit in GIMP from within Picasa

June 11th, 2008 · No Comments


I have found that editing images in GIMP from within Picasa a little laborious, so I've written a simple button that will allow users to load the currently selected picasa images in gimp.

 More information can be found here

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Sybil Video

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments


Took the camera out in the yard today and got some video of the little girl exploring. Enjoy :)

 

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Jungle Python

April 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments


After getting my reptile license recently, I have acquired a yearling Jungle Carpet Python, who has been dubbed "Sybil"

Sybil

She's a lovely little girl, though she's still a little nervous and tends to nibble on your hand a little Undecided.

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Karate Kid

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments


Ezra achieved his first grading in Karate this evening. He is now a White Belt Yellow Tip

Grading 1 Grading 2

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New resident in the hen house

March 11th, 2008 · No Comments


Introducing Frank the Rooster … the hens are very impressed and have been strutting around with their wings spread trying to get his attention. There are some more pics in the gallery here.

 Strutting

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Sick little guy

March 3rd, 2008 · No Comments


This bloke is in need of some love and attention. Hopefully he will pull through

Blue Tongue Lizard

Update: Unfortunately he didn't make it. Multiple punctures to his chest cavity, and most probably his lungs, meant that he didn't survive the night :(

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Updated Projects

February 14th, 2008 · No Comments


I've added some of the projects that I have been working on in my spare time to my page. There is information about a small widget for wordpress that allows users to add a CGIIRC "live chat" login to their page, and added some info about the FlyLife search page that I did last year.

More info available here

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