In a small Colorado garage over 35 years ago Greg Lowe discovered the idea of making camera bags that would in many ways change the way people lug their cameras carting them to remote destinations. If you’re a photographer you’re bound to have your run in with a few lenses and gear that you build up over time. Ease of access and a safe, sucure and easy way of carring them is of paramount importance.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
Alright, so here is the little surprise that some of you may not have known… I’ll be in North Carolina for 7 days with the wonderful Nancy. And in that time we’d also be travelling to Chicago for 2 days, experiencing the Magnificient Mile, Michigan avenue walking past where Tintin and Snowy once did. Oh the excitement…
Tim Lucas along with fellow Sydney Rail enthusiast Hunter Nield is conducting an Introduction to Ruby on Rails Development half–day workshop as part of this year’s webDU which is targetted at developer interested in learning how to rapidly create quality web applications. This is the first of its kind in Sydney. Further details here.
Join the fun at their Flickr group where most of their session photos and feedback from the day would be posted.
And so the story goes…. MeasureMap was bought over by Google. As Jeff wrote here and here….
Mystic India rediscovers India, a land of many mysteries and fascinations, the one land that all desire to see. Home of the Himalayas, the tallest mountains, India is our world’s largest and oldest democracy, and contains an amazing wealth of wisdom, culture and spirituality. And within this earliest civilization known to mankind, lie hidden mystical secrets. It lies hidden in India’s silent spirituality, making her a mystic land of meditation, contemplation and enlightenment.
Valentines Day Flowers Send Valentine’s Day flowers online with ProFlowers. The flowers are fresher than flowers from stores or florists and make great gifts.
Thanks Russ for pointing this amazing tool out. coComment is a neat way of keeping abreast of comments in the blogosphere through RSS or even your browser. It captures shares and alerts as your comments grow in the blogosphere. You would be INFORMED when someone responds to your comments. You can SHARE YOUR COMMENTS on other’s blogs with your own readers? And keep all your comments without LOSING TRACK of your discussions. All in the one place! Neat!
Kiki is a washed up, boozed up chanteuse whose middle age passed her by some time ago. Herb, her piano battering, life-long accompanist, provides support both musically and emotionally. Show business has destroyed them but they cannot live without it. Featuring songs made famous by the likes of Eminem, Radiohead, Kate Bush and Britney Spears. We have booked tickets for the show on the 16th at the Opera House. woo-hoo! At table C right infront of the stage! Gosh I only hope Kiki doesn’t come bitch slapping right on our table! 
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What is the difference between Localization and Internationalization in the world wide web context? What are they and why do we designers and developers need to know?
The Lead of W3C Internationalisation — Richard Ishida (blog) during his visit to Australia conducted seminars in Melbourne and Canberra asking developers to think futuristically to allow for greater localisation of Websites and Web applications.
Russ, Lisa, Ajay and I are off to Canberra for the day to attend Web Standards Group meeting on Internationalization tomorrow. Russ has already blogged it so here goes! Can’t wait the drive will be fun. Canberra here we come. A small road trip before the big one 
NOTE: Read Part 1 and 2.
The traffic got heavier and slowly most roads started showing a City Link’ or the ‘City’ sign. If we’d lost anchor we’d have headed right back into the city and found our bearings and ventured up the Maroondah highway… with no maps around except for the one Hertz give us which is a one sheet photocopy of a ultra modern roadway that wasn’t to scale and has many roads missing we decided to follow our instincts… while we were trying to get our orientation right and enjoying the semi-residential scantily populated suburbs a car zoomed right past me. The registration number read “QUACK” We giggled! “R-U-D-E-ness” said David…
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Honyea, David and I are heading down to the pompus Royal Botanic Gardens in a couple of hours from now to watch ‘Pride & Prejudice‘ in the favourite picnic spot, jogging route of the Royal Botanic Gardens a home to a magnificent collection of South Pacific plant life, an old-fashioned rose garden, a succulent garden, a dark, dingy bat colony and breath-taking harbour views. It has been overcast all day and we hope it doesn’t rain… *fingers crossed*.
This is the 9th cosecutive year that The Open Air cinemas have been screened in the Sydney Harbour against a backdrop of the city’s astonishing skyline. This years show includes 10 premiere or preview screenings. And very specially this years program also included a special live performance by the Sydney Symphony to celebrate Mozart’s 250th birthday.
who sent this to me when and how. buttt…
After grabbing our bags from the luggage carousel at Melbourne airport we headed down to Hertz to pick up our hire car… it seemed to take a fair bit of time to organise though. Ah these melbournites are just not that professional are they now? The gentleman on the other side of the counter looked a bit worried… hmmm…. wonder what was cooking…..while we oggled at other passengers pick up their luggage, looking at the ceiling, outside, the Hertz representatives wrinkly forehead, the rear of his old windows computer (ughhh!) he made a third (yes I was counting) frantic call. He could hardly keep the glaring secret from his high flying customers anymore. Oh no, he was about to CRY! We reached for our used tissues. He paused and decided to gave away the secret. We were preparing to drop our jaws but the news didn’t suprise us much. Hertz Melbourne had over booked the airport outlet by 60 odd cars! Jolly Good! Splendid! But we got our turn and moved right along to champion a drive in the wet weather. Oh I love singing driving in the rain…
Getting up in morning is such a hard thing to do. Especially if its like 5:30am and then shower, makeup and look pretty all day. But we did our best and the cab arrived dot at 6:45am to take us to the airport. Virgin Blue counter looked a bit crowded already but one of the ushers moved us right on to the begining of a counter that had opened up just then. Oh nice! We sauntered up and exchanged greetings. He looked at us and said hello with a smile and said… oh must be the Tennis…(they had the tennis in Melbourne last week) David said nah we going to the wineries.
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