June 14th, 2008
Conversation vs. Noise
The title might sound like linkbait, picking on some of the new darlings of social networking, but my question is should we be the services using them in combination, flooding the channels with a lot of noise and little chance of conversation.
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June 13th, 2008
Blank Generation
It started a couple of weeks beek reading Nathanael B’s post on Gen Y workers in the Gen Y workplace. I thought I better check that I was Gen X before commenting, so off to the authority of wikipedia …
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June 10th, 2008
Ben tagged me with the my way home meme, and being busy last week, I ignored my feed reader until the weekend. I had originally thought I should do it in reverse, take the photos on my way to work and reverse them, because I start work late and return home late in the dark at this time of year. I also chose to take the photos last Monday, which was one of the few stormy days of the year and instead of riding my pushbike to the train station, I took the bus. So here is my trip home on a stormy winter night.
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June 10th, 2008
Do I want one of those brand new 3G iPhone, YES. But I will wait until what will and see what is going to happen with the offers by all the major telcos in Australia, before committing…
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May 24th, 2008
I am looking for your views on an issue I am having with a design for a new website at work. I am a fan of elastic design (which you might of noticed if you are reading this via my blog). The original intention was to have a basic design for the smaller (< [...]
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May 20th, 2008
The site of the Western Australian Premier is one of the alarming number of websites that are built just for broadband users, while ignoring those on dialup or those on expensive mobile broadband networks. The home page in question weighs in at over hefty 750kb. Which is fine for business and home users with decent broadband, but not everybody has access to fast and cheap broadband in Western Australia.
I am not just talking about outback Western Australia …
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May 10th, 2008
Direct from BarCamp Perth2.0, here are the slides, the presentation plan and introduction I used.
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May 5th, 2008
The W3C are running a free online training in Mobile Web Best Practices, you can find out more on the course overview page or you can head straight over to the registration page. You might need to rush seeing the course is limited to 100 participants.
Update 1720WST 5 May 2008 , just got informed by W3C the course is now full, the 100 places where filled quicker than they expected.
Hat tip to Scenario Girl. See you on the course Lisa.
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April 24th, 2008
After the buzz of last year barcamp in Perth and hearing so much about the recent Barcamp Sydney 3 and the initial Barcamp Canberra, I am so looking forward to another barcamp in Perth.
Well my prayers have been answered. BarCamp Perth 2.0 is on May 10 at Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth. Over [...]
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April 22nd, 2008
Yesterday, I finally posted on ENABLEnet, the free wifi at the State Library. I did mention that it had been reliable and asked for feedback on your experiences. Well guess what, today it had problems. …
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