Archive for February, 2007

Over a year ago Miles, Kay, myself and oth­ers where talk­ing about about a col­lect­ive noun for Perth blog­gers both on the web and at the pub. At some stage the name West Coast Blog­gers, a play on the West Coast Chop­pers brand was sug­ges­ted and before long the domain name was registered, a logo appro­pri­ated, a feed aggreg­ator set up and West Coast Blog­gers was born. Some­body even turned up a Web Dir­ec­tions with a West Coast Blog­gers t-shirt.

Another con­fer­ence, another t-shirt required, so I cre­ated the West Coast Blog­gers web 2.0 logo. The ver­sion that will be on my t-shirt will not have roun­ded corners (lack of illus­trator skills), then I worked out the easy way of doing it in pho­toshop. So if you see some­body wear­ing a t-shirt with a design like this wan­der­ing Aus­tin, Vegas, Moab or even Perth come over and say hello, I don’t bite.

I have just signed up with 3 for 24 months (yes it is a long time) for mobile broad­band. I can not com­plain about the price $0 upfront, $50 a month for 1Gb of traffic and while I had to give 3 cus­tomer care a couple of phones calls. The install­a­tion instruc­tions were a little vague and because I was try­ing to con­nect within a hour of sign­ing up some­body had to manu­ally flip a switch, it was not a dif­fi­cult task.

The good news …