Archive for the 'Just geek' Category

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.

Well for the time being. Monday morn­ing saw a flood of email announ­cing new fol­low­ers. I quickly traced it back to Australia’s Top 100 Influ­en­tial Twit­ter­ers. I was sur­prised to see myself as num­ber 62. Since that time my rank­ing slowly drop­ping, as more Aus­tralia twit­ter­ati are dis­covered. Cur­rently I am num­ber 85, and prob­ably by the end of the week I will no longer be one of Australia’s Top 100 Influ­en­tial Twit­ter­ers, but that is no loss. I will keep using twit­ter the way I have been.

In con­junc­tion with Edge of the Web, WebJam9 is com­ing to Perth on the even­ing of Novem­ber 6. You do not need to attend the con­fer­ence to go to Web­Jam. If you have never been to a Web­Jam, you need to exper­i­ence it at least once. Close to 20 geeks, giv­ing short, and I mean […]

The ACMA last week released a report into the ISP level fil­ter­ing. I have been spend­ing to much time on Friend­Feed com­mu­nic­at­ing with Amer­ic­ans and missed the release of this report. Note to self, open your feed reader more often.

I have man­aged to keep quiet on inter­net cen­sor­ship, mainly because oth­ers like Stilgher­rian have been doing a good job of provid­ing unbi­aised inform­a­tion on the issues. Then I tried to read what was attempt­ing to masquar­ade as a through sci­entific report, is was too much.

I might be fan of the TransPerth web pres­ence. How­ever, their cus­tomer ser­vice failed for me big time tonight. Work­ing late, I caught the 1935 train home from Perth, so I could con­nect with the 541 bus from Wel­lard sta­tion to drop me off outisde my house. The trip went well until the train attempted […]

There was some noise on Friend­Feed yes­ter­day after­noon, about the new search engine on the block, Cuil (pro­nounced cool). There was enough noise, that Read Write Web wondered How Did Cuil Get So Much Pub­li­city the answer in ped­i­gree ex-Googlers with IBM’s Web Foun­tain and Altav­ista background.

So like many oth­ers, I went and checked it out …

Do you have a Win­dows Mobile device and are jeal­ous of the Safari Browser on the iPhone? But can not or do not want to get an iPhone, well the latest Opera browser for Win­dows Mobile 5 or 6 is for you …