Archive for February, 2006

Why LowePro for Camera bags?

Why LowePro for Camera bags?

Ease of access and a safe, sucure and easy way of carring them is of paramount importance.My love for Lowepro stems from the fact that I have used LowePro since 2001 and never once has it failed me. And most of all Lowepro is very environment friendly, they are members of alliance, conservancies and are proud supporters of: The conservation Alliance The Valhalla Wilderness Society Amazon Watch and Native PlanetAn understanding to support causes for a better tomorrow can only come from within, can only ever occur to a human being and or collectively to a comany that believe strongly in preservation and in betterment.

In North Carolina soon

In North Carolina soon

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 [...]

Ruby on Rails workshop

Ruby on Rails workshop

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 [...]

Measuremap a part of Google now

Measuremap a part of Google now

And so the story goes…. MeasureMap was bought over by Google. As Jeff wrote here and here….

Mystic India — our valentine treat

Mystic India — our valentine treat

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 [...]

coComment – Join the conversation

coComment – Join the conversation

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 [...]

Kiki and Herb

Kiki and Herb

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. [...]

Localization and Internationalization

Localization and Internationalization

Some people use other terms, such as ‘globalization’ to refer to the same concept.Internationalization is the design and development of a product, application or document content that enables easy localization for target audiences that vary in culture, region, or language.Internationalization is often written “i18n”, where 18 is the number of letters between ‘i’ and ‘n’ in the English word.Internationalization typically entails: Designing and developing in a way that removes barriers to localization or international deployment…. Examples include date and time formats, local calendars, number formats and numeral systems, sorting and presentation of lists, handling of personal names and forms of address, etc. Separating localizable elements from source code or content, such that localized alternatives can be loaded or selected based on the user’s international preferences as needed.Notice that these items do not necessarily include the localization of the content, application, or product into another language; they are design and development practices which allow such a migration to take place easily in the future but which may have significant utility even if no localization ever takes place.How to get involved?Both as an individual or an organisation W3C Internationalization welcomes people around the globe to help improve the appropriateness of the Web for multiple cultures, scripts and languages.

Richard Ishida on Internationalization

Russ, Lisa, Ajay and I are off to Canberra for the day to attend Web Standards Group meeting on Internationalization tomorrow…. A small road trip before the big one ;) Richard Ishida, the Internationalization Activity Lead, and chair and staff contact for the GEO Working Group is visiting Australia in early February.Richard will be doing two W3C/Web Standards Group meetings while he is here – Melbourne on February 9 and Canberra on February 10.Internationalisation is an area that is becoming increasingly important to developers – especially those in the Government sector.

On to Yarra – Day 1 Part 3

On to Yarra – Day 1 Part 3

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 [...]

Pride & Prejudice in the Open Air Theatre

Pride & Prejudice in the Open Air Theatre

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, [...]

I no longer remember

I no longer remember

who sent this to me when and how. buttt…

On to Yarra – Day 1 Part 2

On to Yarra – Day 1 Part 2

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 [...]

On to Yarra – Day 1 Part1

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 [...]

Back from Victoria

…butttttt have been run off my feet. updates soon.


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