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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).

For those Aus­trali­ans that missed it, the Prime Min­is­ter announced the 2020 Sum­mit. Which is aimed at get­ting Australia’s 1000 bright­est minds to Can­berra to dis­cuss the long term future of Australia.

I have yet to pur­chase my copy of Leo­pard, but from a couple of com­ments on one of my pre­vi­ous posts on the XU870 and Tiger upgrades. It appears that upgrad­ing to Leo­pard also breaks XU870 sup­port out­side the US for the unwary.

I found a help­ful post of a Ger­man Mac users Google group. Roughly trans­lated (cour­tesy of Google translator):

I came, I saw, I learnt, I presen­ted and throughly enjoyed myself, even if over too quickly.

The most sur­pris­ing thing, was that while the first Pod­Camp in Aus­tralia was sup­posed to of been organ­ized by Adam Pur­cell and Jared Mad­den. I met them early in the day, but they dis­ap­peared into the crowd and did not even present. The organ­iz­ing of Pod­Camp Perth 2007 seemed to be handled by Bron­wen (of Per­th­Norg fame) and Simone (of EnjoyPerth fame), with the help of a large num­ber of Perth people.

My second Web­Jam was inter­est­ing event. Held after WDS07 on a Sat­urday even­ing, in front of a couple hun­dred people. What was inter­est­ing was the line up of speak­ers. The biggest sur­prise for me was the lim­ited num­ber of local speak­ers, there was three inter­na­tional speak­ers Andy Clarke, Aaron Gust­afson and Chaals from Opera, add to that the WA con­ti­gent of me and Myles and you had I think 9 locals.

Some of know that Perth has very act­ive digital com­munity, we beat Sydney 2 to 1 in vot­ing for the inaug­ural Pod­Camp Aus­tralia. How­ever, the first week of Decem­ber looks like it will outdo any­thing that has happened here in the past. With:…

After a late arrival yes­ter­day after a QANTAS ground­crew man­aged to dam­age the rear cargo door just prior to take off and the res­ult­ing two hour delay. As pho­to­graphs where sent around the globe to QANTAS engin­eers in Sydney, the Civil Avaition Author­ity in Can­berra and Boe­ing in Tacoma to get the ok to fly after some pan­el­beat­ing. Lach­lan and Lisa where good enough to pick me up from the air­port and deliver me to my hotel, which is great little apart­ment around the corner from Oz-IA.

First stop today was …

The story as I tell it. About fives years ago when Miles was work­ing as a freel­ance web developer, he felt isol­ated from oth­ers in the insustry. So Miles and a few oth­ers set up the Port80 forum and most import­antly decided to meet the first Wed­nes­day of each month at a local pub to com­plain about cli­ents over a few beers…

Thanks to Green­Guy, my moment of glory/infamy at Web­Jam is now on YouTube.