Archive for November, 2008

Well at least for the next two years

aka a review of Everything you know about CSS is wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank

I just fin­ished read­ing Everything you know about CSS is wrong! by Rachel Andrew and Kevin Yank. The title was chosen to be con­tro­ver­sial, the book is about using CSS tables for layout.

The Aus­tralian Web Industry Asso­ci­ation is organ­ising a Web Mixed Grill to show­case some of the bright minds the Aus­tralian web com­munity, I assume in 24 ways kind of way.

While I do not con­sider myself one of the bright­est mind in the Aus­tralian web com­munity. I am more than happy to con­trib­ute. So what would you like to see me contribute …

If you have wandered across my flickr stream lately you might of noticed a couple of pho­tos of my latest bicycle. So here is the story behind it. I reg­u­larly com­mute the 2.5km to and from the train sta­tion each day. Until recently on self destruct­ing cheap chinese hybrid, that is in des­per­ate need of replace­ment. So when the latest bulk rub­bish col­lec­tion occurred in our sub­urb, I decided to see if I could find a suit­able replace­ment. Unfor­tu­nately I spent the week­end clear­ing our shed of 10 years worth of junk to have a good look locally.

A few days later, on the way home in the bus (it was rain­ing heav­ily), I spot­ted a suit­able candidate …

Greg Dwyer is col­lect­ing mater­ial on the pro­posed inter­net fil­ter­ing in Aus­tralia. So I am shar­ing my thoughts and par­tic­u­larly my exper­i­ence with the fil­ter­ing soft­ware I now look after at the State Lib­rary of WA, with you as well as Greg.