Monthly Archives: September 2007

a new web direction…

September 29, 2007 – 8:48 am

Web Directions South (wds07) is over for another year and I feel a bit like old Juan Antonio Samaranch when I say it was definitely the best one ever!
Everyone was left buzzing with excitement by the closing keynote, Mark Pesce, whose inspirational speech had an effect like a coaches address at half time in today’s [...]

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Andy Clarke

September 25, 2007 – 8:43 pm

First workshop session at WDS07 Andy Clarke’s ‘Transcending CSS’. Not bad either.
To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by how little CSS I learned. It tells me I’m at least across the stuff, even if I’m not using it fully in the University environment. And that is the nub of Andy’s message. It’s time we [...]

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travelling light : a bad trip

September 25, 2007 – 8:36 pm

A trip to a Sydney shouldn’t be this hard! The signs were not good at Melbourne Airport when I arrived at 11:20 yesterday morning. The longest queue I have ever seen stretched from one end of the QANTAS domestic terminal to the other… broken baggage conveyer. Half an hour in the queue and my flight [...]

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Apple’s forgotten placeholder

September 18, 2007 – 9:24 am

Shouldn’t laugh at the misfortune of others – however small – but Apple’s website is usually so perfect, everything in its place, that when there is a problem you’ve gotta make the most of it! In this case, the hoary old chestnut, the nemesis of graphic designers everywhere – forgotten placeholder text.
On the Australian store’s [...]

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google australia goes bahasa

September 17, 2007 – 10:03 am

I don’t know how widespread this problem is or if there’s something the Australian government isn’t telling us, but this morning when I visited Google Australia for a search, I got this, which appears to be the Indonesian localisation.
C’mon guys – jokes over!

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