Archive for the 'Just geek' Category

It has been very quiet around here, for a num­ber of reas­ons. I did expect my three week enforced rest to be spent learn­ing and exper­i­ment­ing with the likes of CSS3 and HTML5 and then blog­ging about it. Instead I spent most of the time in the shed play­ing bicycle mechanic.

Once back at work, my usual blog­ging time on the train trip to and from work dis­ap­peared, as my Mac­Book Pro died and I star­ted rid­ing to work more often.

I need to start blog­ging on a more reg­u­lar basis …

For those who have not seen my Edge of the Web CSS3 demon­stra­tion I used the CSS Zen Garden HTML. Why, because I wanted to use some­body else’s HTML, mainly because I wanted to show it works with any HTML and that most people would be famil­iar with the site.

I will not sub­mit it, because Dave has not accep­ted any new sub­mis­sions almost two year, my demo is far from the visual stand­ard of most other design and I broke one major rule the CSS does not validate.

Well I am speak­ing at the Edge of the Web Con­fer­ence in Perth in Novem­ber. The title Pro­gress­ive Enhance­ment with CSS: Or how I stopped wor­ry­ing about IE6 and start­ing lov­ing CSS3.

The aim is to show how you can use CSS2 and CSS3 to improve the exper­i­ence of vis­it­ors using mod­ern browsers, while not block­ing access to those people still using older browsers like IE6 …

Twit­ter has changed the way I watch pro­cyc­ling races, it has provided me far more inform­a­tion, than I was get­ting before and it is all Lance Armstrong’s fault …

Then purely by acci­dent I saw the Crumpler Yee Ross on the Crumpler web site, a Crumpler back­pack that can be used as a hydra­tion pack. So I went to my local Crumpler store, check it out and walked away after pur­chas­ing last year’s model (more on that later) …

This is my infam­ous bag that has been repor­ted to the local Crumpler store on more than one occa­sion, because I had the auda­city to sten­cil my blog URL on it, to clearly identify as mine.

Three years ago, I bought a Crumpler bag on …

aka thoughts on what every­body else is doing

I have just fin­ished read­ing The State of the Web sur­vey res­ults. I was sur­prised by the res­ults of the sur­vey of cur­rent web prac­tices, I always con­sidered myself an early adop­ter of design and devel­op­ment prac­tices and tech­no­lo­gies when it comes to HTML, CSS and the ilk. With an early adop­ter audi­ence, I expec­ted to be in the middle of the pack of the sur­vey with my design and devel­op­ment practices.

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.