Archive for September, 2006

Andy Clarke presents Andrew Krespanis a pair of brit­pack pair of under­pants at WD06

This should be the right video now

A dir­ect quote from Andy Clarke, his present­a­tion was the one that has got me think­ing the most at WD06. Par­tic­u­larly about this blog, I know I need to fix my typo­graphy and javas­cript. Dur­ring the social net­work­ing last night, I was given a solu­tion to my flash and OsX flash­player prob­lem, so I was ready to do so refin­ing work to this blog, but Any got me think­ing, so stay tuned …

I made it to Web Dir­ec­tions 06 and have sur­vived two work­shops and three nights of net­work­ing. The con­fer­ence proper starts today. …

I was sit­ting cross legged on the floor of the lounge room, typ­ing a blog post, when a four month old bor­der col­lie puppy came run­ning around the chair I was using as a back rest, and leapt over my legs. The Power­Book screen took the full impact of a 12kg (26lb) puppy at speed. A resound­ing crack, the Power­Book slide along the floor and the puppy con­tin­ued on her way.

The puppy and the LCD sur­vived without any dam­age, the same could not be said …

I am sur­prised by the num­ber of people I know or read their blogs of who will be attend­ing Web Dir­ec­tions. Cameron Adams and Tim Lucas cre­ated Web Con­nec­tions 06 to con­nect the people attend­ing WD06. Of the forty odd people who have con­nec­ted so far, I have met half of them, from sit­ting next to them at WE05 and exchan­ging busi­ness cards (Kevin Yank), to going to school with a couple of dec­ades back (Gary Barber). If you are going to WD06, go and con­nect it is an good little app, even if my pro­file has ceased to function

1600 21 Septem­ber, the ruby mon­keys put my pro­file back ;-) it was only for 10 minutes or so and only my pro­file, every­body else’s I checked worked fine.

RSS Read­ing Habits — Sur­vey by Microsoft Research Asia, Cen­ter for Inter­ac­tion Design via Kevin Hale on of the people behind Wufoo.com. Microsoft Asia are look­ing car­ry­ing out an anonym­ous sur­vey of RSS read­ing habits. Sure it is Microsoft, but they are will­ing to share, they will pub­lish the res­ult so every­body can see. So why not take the sur­vey it is only eight ques­tion, plus the option to upload your OPML file.

Now fixed

I just changed hosts and the rewrit­ing of URLs for Word­Press stopped work­ing. I assumed a .htac­cess or mod_rewrite where prob­lem, but I have not had any prob­lems with the other five blogs that I have set up on via Reseller Zoom account. So after scratch­ing my head this morn­ing. I got home, upgraded my ver­sion of Word­Press to the latest ver­sion and that fixed the problem.

If you are not aware, the National Fed­er­a­tion of the Blind is tak­ing Tar­get to court in the US over access­ib­il­ity of Target.com (this has big implic­a­tions, as I under­stand the e-commerce engine used by Target.com is the Amazon engine).
I have been watch­ing this case with interest and was read­ing Joe Clark’s inter­pret­a­tion of […]

Com­plete with gra­tu­it­ous puppy video shot on the i6

I bought the i6 as a stick in my pocket take every­where cam­era, I did not expect a replace­ment for my trusty Canon G2 for tak­ing ser­i­ous pho­tos. I have been pleas­antly sur­prised by i6, it does everything I wanted.

I got myself a new mp3 player, so it was time I replace my old head­phones with a bet­ter pair. Head­phones make a big dif­fer­ence, even to someone who suf­fers from mild hear­ing prob­lems, like me. I do not trust the cheap pair included in the box with any music player.

A quick search of the web turned up a few recom­mend­a­tions, then it was a quick google of “head­phones perth” to see what was avail­able loc­ally. I found Head­phonic…