Entries from September 2007

Bloggers Beware! Your Privacy Might be at Risk: this is a must read for all bloggers. Did you know details of your home address may be online, in the public domain, for all to see, without your knowledge or approval? Even if you are using a business or PO Box address on your Whois records and the like? Finding Your Blogging DNA: by Glen Stansberry. What sort ... Read full entry

May 2025, in a galaxy far, far away... The opening scene of Star Wars 10, "The reincarnation of Captain Kirk", is set in that rough and tumble old bar on Tatooine, the Mos Eisley Cantina, that has by now become familiar to several generations of movie goers. Aside from the fact John Thorpe is the now the owner, and it sports dozens of poker machines, it otherwise remains unchanged since ... Read full entry

Office gossip, an essential skill: This is of interest. "If you are constantly off having coffee with a colleague, chatting in the tea room and swapping office gossip over the printer, you are not a slacker. Not at all, in fact you are likely to be a high-performing manager." 7 Ways to use StumbleUpon as a Discovery Tool: great write up from Meg at Dipping into the ... Read full entry

The recent launch of BlogRush goes to show just how easy it is to generate a load of hype and bloated levels of expectation over what is really only a blogroll. Blogrush, blogroll, see? Hailed by its creators as a "Cooperative Syndication Network", the BlogRush widget lists recent posts from blogs that are part of its member network each time it loads, or is served, on a participant's blog. Whether or ... Read full entry

Wordpress 2.3: ground breaking news this... version 2.3 of the world's favourite Content Management System (CMS), Wordpress is ready for download and installation. Also known as "Dexter", the latest version includes increased support for tags. What are tags? Short, simple, usually one word, summaries of blog posts, and you can see them at the foot of this very post! 3 Reasons Blogger is Better Than WordPress: on the ... Read full entry

Skulking around the darkened grounds of monasteries isn't exactly my idea of living it up on a Saturday evening, but there I was last weekend, up at the Sacred Heart Monastery in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, armed with my camera looking for photo opportunities. I've been intrigued for some time by a floodlit building that I can see across the ... Read full entry

Dear Apple, How often must we download updates for your fine iTunes software? It seems nowadays nary a week goes by without the appearance of that dreaded software update notification pop-up on my lappy screen. Why, these days I feel I spend more time downloading your music playing software than I do downloading music to play on it! My question, and maybe that ... Read full entry

Wire & Twine: "We are a group of designers, coders, screenprinters, photographers, artists, moms, dads, and down-to-earth people - and we like to make things." Things like t-shirts, first aid kits, and baby shower packs! Love the website design also :) Get Out from Behind the Curtain by Sarah B. Nelson at A List Apart examines the designer's age old conundrum of retaining creative control of a ... Read full entry

Five Questions is where I talk to bloggers about their projects and some of the other things they are doing. I ask {Q}uestions, and hopefully get some {A}nswers! Bloggers are always interested in hearing about new, server melting, ways to promote their work, and if it's a mob scene you're looking for at your place then go no further than YouMob. ... Read full entry

Sea spray, gale force winds, and pounding surf, Sydney's Clovelly beach has the lot. It was hold onto your hats, and only open doors on the downwind side of the car, weather at Clovelly yesterday afternoon. I could taste the sea salt on my lips for hours afterwards, but hopefully the spray didn't affect the photo quality too much. The snaps ... Read full entry