Monthly Archive for September, 2005

Off to Web Essentials ‘05

Check out the latest happenings at WE05 on our flickr group.
Listen to podCasts of each session soon after they are done at WE05 website or Odeo
Track what blogs are saying about WE05 via technorati, and make sure you tag your blog posts like this
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Moody blur

UPDATE: You may like to download some of my very own handcrafted homegrown wallpapers :-P from my desktop section. Yes, gratis!

flower in my backward

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Reflecting opera House, Sydney

Opera House Sydney

It was yet another glorious day today and am glad I decided to go out. Later in the day when I was loaded with retail therapy I felt this sudden urge to go to the National Art Gallery. To cut to the chase, well, I never made it there. Maybe next weekend. In the mean time… must say and sorry for this short feint — if you have bought an iPodnano you must buy the armband. Its really worth every cent. So there I was after my retail therapy at Chatswood, a lovely curry to satisfy my inner man and a fresh boyish haircut and some new gel they slammed on my hair, draped in faded diesel jeans and a light brown T-Shirt. I was flashing my new red armband on my left muscly (both are) bicep in skimpy sleeves with my black 4GB iPodnano tucked in vogue. Trust me I couldn’t have been any more vain as I blasted music in my ear canals and tapped away to NO Rougher DJ Scot Project.which I often do

wearing the red armband for iPodnano

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Follett International

Maria,.. and Nancy I couldn’t have been happier when Nancy (lovingly Nan) called to tell me that she joined the Follette International Library Resources. It was a long sequel of events that led her to meet Chuck Follett, at Follett International in McHenry, Illnois. Nan’s primary reason to get in touch with Chuck was to see if some help be available from Follett Library for her Rotary International project in Dhanbad, India. Nan is also the president of Maysville Rotary, in North Carolina, USA. Subsequent weeks that followed led to an exciting trip to Chicago to get inducted to the Follette resources and the workings of the group. Even though she has put up an entry about her jottings of the Follettes and pics on her flickr I thought this needed a worthy mention. Educating the future, gratis, without seeking any in return is a very noble and worthy call and seen far and few between in this day and age. In fact its reaching out beyond ones social scene and cultural peripheries — that in itself is a call very few can answer. Well done Nan! Very proud of you!

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The Eye - monologue

This is a monologue I wrote in my creative writing class yesterday. Unedited, raw and in fifteen minutes flat. Yep! you got it, don’t judge :)

I cannot quite tell the colour of her eyes. I see green, tiny patches of soft china blue, green, more green and a smidge of yellow.

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Dead Europe - Christos Tsiolkas

photos of the cover of the book Dead Europe

THE FIRST THING I was ever told about Jews was that every Christmas they would take a Christian toddler, put it screaming in a barrel, run knives between the slats, and drain the child of its blood. While christians celebrated the birth of Jesus, Jews had a mock ceremony at midnight in their synagogues, before images of their horned God, where they drank the blood of the sacrified child.

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Gave in to my minty lust

What is Mint?

Mint is a concise, flexible, dripping with AJAX RSS and deliciously bundled wuth PHP, MySQL and referrer-spam-proof stats generator created by Shaun Inman. In other words Mint is ShortStat reborn. It keeps both current and historical data about each visit and presents it in a neatly organized fashion. And to say the least when I had problems getting it to work Shaun helped me troubleshoot. Thanks again Shaun. I’m a mint freak now :)

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Digital Dictaphone?

Do you use them or have seen friends and enemies flashing ‘em around? Well I’m considering buying one… okie here’s the bit I am keen to hear about:

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