What was Australia’s illustrious Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer trying to say in parliament the other day? Apparently, a video of Douglas Wood and his Iraqi dissident captors was delivered to Australian officials by “message stick”. Does this implicate Australian Aboriginals in the sorry tale? (perhaps in retaliation for not saying sorry!), have the ancient ways …
Author Archives: woowoowoo
one wheel & madness
I was telling a story today when someone at the table said “that’s the sort of thing you should have on your blog!”, so I thought I’d better follow through with it. I can’t remember why, but a while ago I found myself looking at a totally insane video on the interweb showing a couple …
annoying mobiles taken to the next level
It’s not politically correct to admit it, but I hate public transport. It’s bucketing rain this morning so I didn’t ride my bike (powered or unpowered), I caught the tram. I don’t like the waiting, the fact that when I do, it’s usually cold and wet is a bummer, but I can put up with …
the world’s worst website?
I know, it’s a big call but rainbowprimates.com incorporates unimaginably awful design, the very worst elevator music, a ‘terrorist alert’ indicator and a christian chat room! What more could you want?? This site will leave you utterly speechless. It’s so bad you will almost forget to be outraged at the basic idea of selling monkeys …
that eye in the sky
I admit it, I’m a bit of a map nerd… I just love ’em – the more detail the better. You can learn a lot about a place just by looking at a map. You can learn even more by looking at an aerial photograph, and google maps has got lots of them! So far, …
Nikon’s encryption bungle…
I was amazed by recent reports about Nikon encrypting the raw files in their high-end digital cameras… what were they thinking? The glare of publicity has been aimed at this story since Thomas Knoll, the ‘creator’ of Photoshop attacked Nikon for the practice, which appears to impose some ownership by Nikon over a photographer’s creative …
Doing my bit for the National Debt…
Yes, I’ve been busily consuming… spending money. I confess to being a bit of a technosucker. I’ll usually find a justification for some gadget or another if I really want it. I never could justify an iPod. Not heavily into my music, not really in need of a portable hard disk or even an organiser, …
the social bookmarking experiment…
I’ve recently joined the wave of web users to try online bookmark tools – specifically del.icio.us – known as a ‘social bookmarking’ tool. Del.icio.us is simple and, for what it does, it works very well. The social aspect is the real revelation though. You bookmark a page and see that others have also bookmarked it, …
another site launched
Quite pleased with this one: Melbourne University Publishing, it’s the first time I’ve had a high profile site with full css layout. Very accessible and pretty much compatible with most modern browsers, but best looking in firefox on a mac (of course!).
Send a link from Safari
I love Apple’s Safari browser. There is a level of polish not even available in the wonderful Firefox, however, I’ll admit it’s sometimes a little short on functionality. One that annoys me is the lack of a quick ‘send link’ function to email a URL to someone. All fixed now! Drag my ‘mail this‘ link …
Bollywood and Jane
Just been to see “Bride and Prejudice” at the Nova. It was great! what a laugh – what a riotous party of a movie. One of my criterias for music I like is that it should sound like it was fun to make – if you can hear the musician’s enjoyment coming through, it’s bound …
upgrade time!
Ok, the observant ones among you will have noticed that my website looks different. I have upgraded the blog software, wordpress, which went swimmingly well. Not wanting to push my run of good luck too far, I am going to leave the look and feel for another day. Til then, you can enjoy the default …