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After a week on excess­ive alco­hol, nicot­ine (I do not nor­mally smoke) and caf­feine at WD06, I have been slack about cyc­ling to work. It was not until Miles Burke at port:80 meet­ing men­tion that he was reg­u­larly going to the gym, I finally got back to cyc­ling to and from work. The res­ults were:

Cause of a little sleep depriva­tion and a lack of blog­ging for the past fort­night. She is a very good puppy, act­ive, inquis­it­ive and a quick learner.

That act­ive two week old blue merle bor­der col­lie puppy (top right) clam­ber­ing over her sleep­ing black and white broth­ers and sis­ters will be ours in four or so weeks time. At the moment we are stumped for a name and are hop­ing for suggestions.

After twenty years with Depart­ment of Con­sumer and Employ­ment Pro­tec­tion and its pre­de­cessors the Min­istry of Fair Trad­ing, I star­ted a new job last week, a second­ment to the State Lib­rary of West­ern Australia.

To those of you not famil­iar with the mys­tical inner work­ings of the West­ern Aus­tralian pub­lic sec­tor, a second­ment is a tem­por­ary loan of an employee from one Gov­ern­ment Depart­ment to another …

Are four words I need to remove from my vocab­u­lary when I give a talk.

I have just heard the pod­cast of my talk I gave to the Perth WSG. Other than using those four words appear­ing far to fre­quently, I am fairly happy with the res­ults. Even if I do not say enough, I ten­ded to gloss over things, often skip­ping words that I included in my notes to add detail. I also spoke too slowly …

tagged pub­lic speak­ing present­a­tions giv­ing presentation

1. Assume that your s5 present­a­tion will look exactly the same when viewed via a pro­jector when using fire­fox, as it did on your screen. FF pays atten­tion to media=“projection”, for­tu­nately Safari ignored it.
2. Assume you cord­less mouse will work with S5 on your power­book pro­jector com­bin­a­tion exactly the same way it did on you PC screen combination.
3. Let some­body else buy you a drink, before you present. I was fool­hardly going to buy a middy of beer before my present­a­tion, but Kay offered to buy me a beer and I ended up with a pint. Men­tal note to self, next time try Red Bull.

Another event to plug, you will find the offical inform­a­tion over on the Web Stand­ards Group and organ­iser Kay provides more details on her stand­ards blog, includ­ing almost say­ing nice things about me ;-).

I will be doing a present­a­tion on the but­ton ele­ment, going into more detail that what I have already done here. Do not worry if you are not loc­ated in this obscure corner of the world called Perth, West­ern Aus­tralia. I will post the present­a­tion here and the scary part is that it should be pod­cast as is hap­pen­ing with most WSG events.

Looks like my week­end in Dwellin­gup was not with out a price. Either that week­end or in the next week or so I got bit­ten by a mos­qui­toe and infec­ted with the Ross River virus.

Well I sur­vived the week­end in, with barely a scratch, other than a couple of close encoun­ters with the thorns on black­berry bushes that were over­hanging the trail in a couple of places and a grazed knee with the sil­li­est of get offs.