Entries from March 2005

I’ve been a little busy lately. Life has been eventful. I’ve reinvented myself, albeit temporarily, as an event manager. More accurately, I have been consulting for an event management company these last few days.I’d post a link to their website if they had one. It’s something I might try and look at, if I have some time. I’m working there because the founding partners have had a few problems. Two ... Read full entry

What’s happening at K10k these days? Or, more to the point, what’s not happening? Once, many years ago now, Kaliber 10000 used to be the be all, and end all, of design portals. It was the first website many designers looked at each day, and probably the last as well. Not to mention several visits in between to check out the rapidly ticking over news ... Read full entry

Seeing movies at the cinema, in this part of the world, has been good value for the last few weeks. “Cheap Tuesdays” are an institution whereby cinemas reduce their ticket prices once a week, on what is presumably one of their quieter trading days. It’s a way of getting the punters in basically.Usually the reduction is in the order of three or four dollars off the normal $14 or $15 ... Read full entry

Dude, where’s Durstan? The latest “bit of fun” in the blogopshere, find Durstan, he whose photo was left off the book cover of “Professional CSS”, which he co wrote. Check out the sports stadium snap Andy Budd has posted. I’m not so much interested in the background story as I am the (extreme) foreground image though ;).If at first ... Read full entry

If you build it, they will search for it? I’m not completely sure why, but in the last couple of months there has been a dramatic jump in the number of search engine queries for “construction sites” leading visitors to disassociated.Last year I started to notice two or three such queries a month. People were more often than not ending up on this page. However ... Read full entry

Online News Editors wanted: “Smooch Magazine are looking for two Online News Editors to join the Smooch Team, one each from Melbourne and Sydney. We are looking for people with a real passion for design.”What did you think of the Semi-Permanent conference: Join the post conference wrap up discussion.And some Semi-Permanent photos: Courtesy of New Zealand designer, Chris ... Read full entry

There’s been a furore over photography in public places in Sydney recently. Particularly at beaches. It seems people with phone cameras especially, have been taking less than flattering photos of some sun bathers and swimmers.Interestingly, sun bathers and swimmers who are usually female and in their early twenties. A rather intrusive practice which saw a male in his late twenties convicted and fined a few months ago.Since then some local ... Read full entry

Another resource for home based workers: Home Office Voice is an useful site/blog to keep an eye on. Especially for small businesses.Could this be the beginning of a lasting happiness?: While you may meet an actual Russian bride here (they link to a prospective bride each week) The Russian Brides is a Sydney band formed in 2002.404 for the people: ... Read full entry

Web designers love to have something they can argue about. Something that can be thrashed to death in the comments area of someone’s weblog posting on the given topic. Something that allows even the most minute of details to be vigorously debated at length.Something that allows people on either side (or sides; nothing is cut and dried on the web...) of the argument to quote, or refer to the work ... Read full entry

d factory: Sydney’s newest networking event for creatives and designers.How to be bigger than Elvis in a few simple steps: Greg makes it look so easy.dandruff; the blog: Steph is a Montreal based designer with a bent for promoting web standards.Last night a Master’s thesis changed the galaxy: Ok, so ... Read full entry