Philip Roy

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About Bluengrey.com

Written on 04 April 2015.

Why the name Bluengrey.com?

Short answer : Lack of fashion sense!

Long Answer : Well, the art of coming up with the name for your web site isn't an easy one. After thinking about it for a while, I settled on 'blue n grey'....a bit of a running joke amongst friends about the colour of the clothes I tend to wear or buy. Why not?

What does "Qua tendis" mean?

The ship and the motto date back a number of centuries to Scotland. The ship is just one very minor component of our family Coat of Arms, but is the focal point of signet rings that have been worn in our family for a number of generations. We've always translated the Latin to "Wherever you go", but a more accurate translation is "Whither do you steer".

What's with the Thunderbird 2 image in the sidebar?

I'm not an obsessive fan, I just love the programme. The image is from a Thunderbird 2 alarm clock, given to me as a leaving present by the staff when I left a teaching position at Southmead Primary School, Wimbledon, London in 1992. I'm told one of the dinner ladies had sent her husband to queue for 4 hours outside Hamleys Regent Street to get it. I wish I had kept the box! The alarm still works, but it is far too loud to use each day. The kids I taught had performed a play I created called "The Thunderbirds save Santa" as their Christmas performance that year.

See, I'm not obsessed at all...but I was the first person in the world to back the Thunderbirds 1965 Kickstarter project in 2015 and here's proof!

What did you use to build Bluengrey.com?

The site runs on the Joomla open source Content Management System (CMS) which you can learn about at http://www.joomla.org and uses a commercial theme called "Aurora" by YOOtheme

I use Hover for all my domains and the site is hosted at SiteGround

I also used a few extensions that have been added into the site to increase functionality. They are as follows...

  • WidgetKit2 - YOOtheme
  • CacheCleaner - Regular Labs
  • OSMap - Alledia

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eLearning specialist. Former owner NZMac.com, NZ Macguide writer, Adobe Education Leader & NZ Flexible Learning Leader.

  • Home
  • News
    • Reviews
    • Site News
  • About Me
    • My Profile
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Bluengrey.com
  • Apple Expertise
    • NZMac.com and NZiPhone.com
    • NZ Macguide
    • iPhone Development
  • My Work
    • Adobe Captivate
    • Adobe Connect
    • Articulate
    • LMS
    • Web Development
    • Other Work
  • Apple Visits
    • DC and London 2018
    • Covent Garden 2010
    • Cupertino 2009
    • Santa Clara 2009
    • San Francisco 2009
    • Sydney 2009
    • Hoodoo Gurus 2009
    • Cupertino 2004
    • San Francisco 2004
  • Silly Stuff
    • Nevis Bungy 2008
    • Shotover Jet 2008
    • Zorb 2008
    • Tandem Bungy 1999
    • Fly By Wire 1998
  • Contact