From Away

The tales of a nomadic Islander

Archives for March 2008

My Home Office

March 28, 2007 at 04:27 PM

Seeing Garrett’s post made me realize that I haven’t posted a recent shot of my office since I started working from home either.

I’m fascinated with seeing other people’s workspace as a means to add to or improve my own. So, if you’ve got a recent shot of your own home office link to it in the comments.

See the photos after the jump.

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Comments: 8 (view/add your own) Tags: apple, home, intel, office, personal, setup, shorts, workspace

Installing Simplelog on A Small Orange

March 26, 2007 at 08:40 AM

Having recently installed Simplelog on my A Small Orange hosting account, I thought I’d go through the install process here for the benefit of those that might be running into problems getting it set up. I’ll also throw in a few other general tips and tricks for those that may be setting it up on a similar setup.

First things first, you’ll need to download the latest version of Simplelog from the Simplelog website: or, if you’re feeling adventurous you can download the latest development version from Simplelog SVN: using the username and password ‘anonymous’.

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Comments: 6 (view/add your own) Tags: rails, ruby, simplelog, webdev

Resume Broadcast

March 13, 2007 at 07:00 AM

Well, after an absense that was entirely too long to be called temporary, From Away is back in full swing. As you can tell from this post, I was a bit disillusioned with the whole web industry and decided that I needed to give myself a bit of a break from maintaining this website and extra-curricular web work in general. But, in light of the events of the last couple of months, I’m back and quite refreshed.

The New Gig

My biggest motivating factor for getting this website back up and running again has definitely been my new job.

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About Me

My name is Jeff Smith and I'm a web developer and graphic designer living in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. That being said, I'm not originally from the prairies, I'm a maritimer, born and bred, namely an Islander (Prince Edward Island).

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