This week, I had occasion to play for a few minutes with the latest toy of technolusters – the Apple iTouch. Definitely one of the ‘must haves’ of the decade, obviously, if I lived in a location where the iPhone was available, then I’d probably graduate to lusting after that instead, but for now let’s …
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who do you trust?
With the Australian election underway, we are being bombarded by all the usual political ads, but one particularly puzzles me… The government keep going on about how 70% of the opposition front bench have come from a union background and that this is somehow supposed to be a bad thing. Well, thanks to wikipedia and …
Sony Bravia goes stop motion
When Sony released the now famous ad with the bouncy balls there was huge speculation about how they did it. Was it computer generated, was it faked – the discussion was quickly stopped as eye witness accounts told of the amazing photo shoot. The next ad was the exploding paint – again brilliant and memorable, …
a new web direction…
Web Directions South (wds07) is over for another year and I feel a bit like old Juan Antonio Samaranch when I say it was definitely the best one ever! Everyone was left buzzing with excitement by the closing keynote, Mark Pesce, whose inspirational speech had an effect like a coaches address at half time in …
Andy Clarke
First workshop session at WDS07 Andy Clarke’s ‘Transcending CSS’. Not bad either. To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by how little CSS I learned. It tells me I’m at least across the stuff, even if I’m not using it fully in the University environment. And that is the nub of Andy’s message. It’s time …
travelling light : a bad trip
A trip to a Sydney shouldn’t be this hard! The signs were not good at Melbourne Airport when I arrived at 11:20 yesterday morning. The longest queue I have ever seen stretched from one end of the QANTAS domestic terminal to the other… broken baggage conveyer. Half an hour in the queue and my flight …
google australia goes bahasa
I don’t know how widespread this problem is or if there’s something the Australian government isn’t telling us, but this morning when I visited Google Australia for a search, I got this, which appears to be the Indonesian localisation. C’mon guys – jokes over!
eliza’s mother is very cross!
Eliza has beautiful, long, wavy golden hair. When she announced tonight that she was going to have it all shaved off in the name of charity, her mother forbade it… not that she took any notice of that… she was always a headstrong girl! Anyway, she seems committed, so next Friday it all comes off …
forests and our precious water
I was delighted to read on the Google Earth blog about a fantastic initiative of the Victorian Rainforest Network to create accurate and educational overlays for Google Earth that clearly illustrate a range of threats to our precious forest environments. Of particular interest is the maps of logging in catchment areas. Organisations like the VRN …
my $20,000 bicycle – for sale
this is my bike – I’ve had it for about 6 years now and I reckon it’s worth about $20,000, would anyone like to buy it? What? too much?!? don’t be so hasty, let me fill you in on the details: Initial cost $250, maintenance and accessories $400. I’ve ridden it the 7 km. to …
Crikey!
Steve Irwin’s number finally came up. It wasn’t one of his beloved crocs, or a shark or any of the spectacular, glamorous and lethal animals he’s so often photographed with, but a Stingray. Apparently a spike through the heart dealt the fatal blow. The Wikipedia page about stingrays even mentions the possibly fatal effects of …
drops of kindness
Hasn’t rained much in Melbourne lately, so when I parked my bike yesterday I made the classic mistake of leaving my helmet open to the elements like some big bucket. Of course, it poured! However, when I got back to the bike I found that some wonderful passer-by had spotted the potential problem and used …