Travel is on the cards this weekend… *rolls tummy*… my tummy says it would be down south from Sydney into the victorian wineries… hmmm sounds lovely…
Monthly Archive for January, 2006
I’ve have been looking for a rental unit in lower north shore for a while now. I am a bit over Hornsby(though I kinda love the greenery and the bushland shire feel it has to offer — my weakness), will give you that Russ… and I’m dead bored here so am trying to move out of this place. But its not always easy to find a place even if for a short time… Far worse none of the ads in papers or on the internet EVER tell you if they take pets which means you have to call them or find out when you visit…
UPDATE: Yojimbo widescreen view hack from HicksDesign. This will help the 2 column Yojimbo app to work in 3 columns which in my opinion is a tad more user-friendly if you have a wide screen.
BareBones has done it again!! Another great app with yet another daggy icon. Egh! You’d need 3 shots of tequila to look at it for more than half a second! So RED! So Ninja! (I don’t dislike Ninjas ) but so ‘not’ macish! Was the iconist working in dim light in an underground garage, with pirated software and more specifically designing on a Windows machine? C’mon Barebones!! Hire some good icon makers!!!!
If you live or are travelling around the UK, chances are you would at some stage end up on the tube! After all who doesnt do the tube in London? Life is hard and cold and you’d be tired and fall asleep and land up at a completely unknown destination unless you were Christopher Boone. (There is only one of him, sorry) But in times like these, when there is no one to fall back on you can always rely on the cute lil’ ingenious idea of Wake me Up. Wear your sticker, dream of flying greasy smoked yummy kebabs and also get woken up at your destination. Isn’t that a wonderful thing. Just make sure you dont wear ‘em all at the same time though… well, these days… you never know!!
With little sleep and a lovely but hot and busy weekend (that wasn’t meant to be a complaint) and apart from starting work a little after half past 6 this morning I am a b-i-t exhausted. *yawns* Y-a-w-n-s again!! Y-A-A-A-W-N! But I am looking forward to meet all you cool cats and can’t wait to discuss the next leg of our to be Death Valley experience! Maxine’s pick for the night Lord Roberts Hotel (in line with leather boots, cowboy hats, guns and rough trade [1, 2]*ahem*) for drinks and then onto Bar Reggio to satisfy our inner man with much amoré. Hey I even bought myself the Beach Boys to get in the mood. Its summer too… What can I say…
Continue reading ‘California Road Trip plan part 2′
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I have two free Wagamama vouchers that expire on the 31st January 2006. If you are interested in having them please reply this post. These vouchers can be redeemed at any Wagamama outlet in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth. Feel free to exhibit your greed!
A great new addition to WebKit—the Web Inspector. It lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact HUD style window, catering to the needs of web developers. The Web Inspector highlights the node on the page as it is selected in the hierarchy. Search for nodes by node name, id and CSS class name is also possible within the same window! Whoa!! I like it already!
Download the nightly build from http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=41 and run the followinf in Terminal.
defaults write com.apple.Safari \
WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true
And you should be set to go. You’ll then see a new “Inspect Element” contextual menu item on any web page. This will open up the Web Inspector and refocus to the node under your cursor.
Lisa, Congratulations!! I have been looking forward to redQueen, since the evening you told me!! The design is simple and very sauve! Great colours! Awesome job!
Well, it is a bit of a give away… well scratch that, it IS a dead give away if I ask about things like… ummmm well if you were in the US of A and doing a little road trip between Las Vegas and San Francisco in just under three days or therabouts… what are the places you would like to see along the way. I am trying to keep Utah, Grand Canyon and the like out of this road trip… the things that jump out to me are Death Valley, Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequoia Natlonal Park… the list keeps growing. I am thinking about the road through Monument Valley and all the other iconic western thoroughfares that are easily accessible from the southern point of Nevada.
Its already the 17th of January 2006! And it wouldn’t be long before we board the plane to head all the way over the Pacific onto Austin Texas for South By South West 2006. There will be lots happening and if all goes to plan I’d be off to North Carolina for about a week to meet my dear dear friend Nancy before heading down to Austin where we all would catch up again. We also have a few exciting plans post SXSW2006 
more to be revealed soon. Don’t forget to tag all your posts (photos and blog entries) South By South West posts by sxsw2006.
For those of you who have looked ‘closely’ at my flickr photos from the last 2 days or so and what I mean by looking ‘closely’ is, if you had bothered to check the EXIF data you’d know I am shooting with my new toy!! Yes, I bought myself a Canon Digital Ixus 750! Yoo-woo! Call me reckless and imperative yeah thats me!! I wanted to get a small digital camera for taking happy snaps… tired of lugging the 20D around all the time… there couldn’t be a better time for this indulgance that the stocktake sale! So there I was running around in the rain between Chatswood and Hornsby to get myself a good deal on Friday the 13th. While I haven’t taken a whole lot of photos you’d surely see some on Flickr soon enough. And to this end I have also set up a Flickr Group for those of you who might have a Canon digital Ixus 750. Please join the group and post away.
Russ posted an article on “Nested lists used to create a simple folder metaphore“. Thought I’d apply the same mark-up and change the CSS to create Left-hand navigation to re-purpose and re-use the same code. So here goes. ‘Course, I’d expect you’d change the pixel sizes to em and make it all relative. The CSScan also be streamlined a bit further.
Continue reading ‘Nested list to create ‘n’-levels of Left Hand Navigation’
Do you believe in Luck? Well, I don’t but I don’t mind if you do, although I have sometimes found myself using phrases like…. “you lucky thing”, “Oh so lucky!” But they are merely expressions of half-hearted self-centred joyfulness. I neither believe in luck, yeah I said that a second time nor do I advocate anyone reading this… so you are on your own if you read this on Friday the 13th and a missile goes through you head and you die and land in Hell in Devil’s bedroom lying naked next to his warm skin on his fur bed surrounded by the fires of Hell and Devil’s slippery green mossy tail hissing over in slow meandering manouvers over your face? Chances are you’ll never come back to planet Earth to design a Web Standards compliant website nor talk of Web Accessibility or bitch and moan about the shitful IE or even take the micky out of ya mates on Flickr, what a shame — but then you would have Devil’s undivided attention wouldn’t you just and I’m sure he’ll keep you entertained!
‘The chronicles of Narnia‘ — C.S. Lewis’ timeless adventure, set in World War II England which follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings – Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter – who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of hide-and-seek at the rural estate of a mysterious professor. They discover a charming, once peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the magnificent lion, Aslan, the children fight to overcome Jadis’(the white witch) powerful hold over Narnia that will free her from her icy spell forever. A movie well worth seeing and just as well it is the hottest movie of the month and the Holiday season.
Macintosh is not only the preferred platform for professional web developers but almost most certainly for Professional photographers or most that do dedicated media work! It is true to say that serious photography and print and media work only ever happen on macintosh…not windows! Sorry Bill. This is because when you are on macintosh you get a lot of inherent advantages (native to mac OS X) working your graphics or photography there than you would elsewhere. I recently came across Rawshooter, from Pixmantec ApS a new RAW processing software. The premium package of this software sells for about US$99.00 Not too bad! Certainly competetive and boasts of a lot of features that photographers like myself would love to have… so I did sign up for a trial and to my amazement RawShooter is only available for windows WHAT!! Exactly!
