Entries from August 2004

It’s all change as that quintessential symbol of London (well one of many really), the red Routemaster double-decker bus is about to depart the bus lanes, to comply with EU disability access regulations.Transport for London is to commence progressively withdrawing the old buses from the streets after some 50 years of service.In particular the number 9 ... Read full entry

Well, I expect a federal election is about to be called in Australia. Not that I’m really interested in providing a news feed on the subject, it has nevertheless been “fun” watching the Sydney Morning Herald’s blow by blow account of events, in the last few minutes.Just a few moments ago I read that the Prime Minister (a lovely chap, by the way) was en-route to Government House to see ... Read full entry

Another motivational thought, by an unknown, anonymous, author:If you are still amazed by something you accomplished yesterday then today has been a waste.Well it would be something of a contradiction to lay claim to such a quotation more than a day after it was coined, right?

Does your work computer feature a dull, drab, default desktop image? Something that perhaps installs itself on start up? Something so “inspired” that it looks little better than a slide generated by a PowerPoint™ wizard?Then it’s time to reclaim your desktop!

Browse Happy is the lastest initiative from WaSP designed to encourage web users to move away from Internet Explorer, and install a newer, safer browser.As they say, they’re browser neutral, but after three years of release, with no significant upgrades, or modifications since, IE is well behind the field in ... Read full entry

Construction sites are hardly the best of places to seek out abundances of bright, vivid colours. If anything the most you will find are shades of grey (concrete, steel, and scaffolding), and brown (dug up earth and timber).Still the colour spectrum was far from my mind as I wandered passed this construction site, on the way home the other evening.So while the ... Read full entry

Sydney city, or CBD transforms into something of a ghost town over the weekends, especially on a Sunday evening.Compared to the week-day, business hours hustle and bustle, weekends are oddly quiet in contrast. You would surely expect the CBD of a city of four million people to be somewhat more active that Sydney’s is.Nevermind. Life is, as ... Read full entry

The king arrived home late last night. He was tired and hungry. Apparently he had spent the last few years traversing barren wasteland in a place that didn’t even exist. But with the ordeal over he was happy.Even though he had only one dollar to his name.One dollar.And you thought you had it bad. Money isn’t everything he said. He’d say something like that of course, having no money and ... Read full entry

Popup windows, or popups, were the next big thing... in 1999 or thereabouts. All the cool kids wanted them on their websites. All that was required was some fairly simple javascripting, and you too could create a popup nightmare for website visitors to deal with.Unfortunately this fad wasn’t just limited to personal sites. People who knew better (or, who should have) were also using ... Read full entry

Today’s motivational thought, thanks to Oscar Wilde:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the starsQuite.