Archive for April, 2008

After the buzz of last year bar­camp in Perth and hear­ing so much about the recent Bar­camp Sydney 3 and the ini­tial Bar­camp Can­berra, I am so look­ing for­ward to another bar­camp in Perth.
Well my pray­ers have been answered. Bar­Camp Perth 2.0 is on May 10 at Cent­ral TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth. Over 50 […]

Yes­ter­day, I finally pos­ted on ENABLE­net, the free wifi at the State Lib­rary. I did men­tion that it had been reli­able and asked for feed­back on your exper­i­ences. Well guess what, today it had problems. …

Free wifi at the WA State Library

ENABLE­net is in the­ory still in trial mode and has not been pub­licly launched, but has been run­ning quietly for the past two months. Being open to dis­cov­ery and word of mouth has res­ul­ted in over 150 ses­sions a day in the past few weeks. As many people use the wifi on Fri­days, week­ends and pub­lic hol­i­days when the lib­rary is open for fewer hours as they do dur­ing the week.

There is an inter­est­ing mix of devices connecting …

For those of you old enough to remem­ber Mr Squiggle. He and his friends are vis­it­ing the State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia this month.

Be warned part of the dis­play area has be turned into a clas­sic early 70’s lounge room com­plete with a col­our scheme that looks like it was taken from this blog. So you can watch Mr Squiggle reruns in nat­ural sur­round­ings (and no I did not design it).

Up until a couple of years ago, I mis­takenly believed that cap­tion­ing was just a souped up ver­sion of sub­titling. I was very wrong.

I learnt a lot about cap­tion­ing work­ing with a hear­ing impaired col­league to arrange cap­tion­ing of a work video, a few years ago.

One of the main issues is there is no stand­ard or even code of prac­tise for cap­tion­ing in Australia …