Entries from February 2008

A photo taken in New York by Zac Zavos, which I saw on Lost At E Minor reminded me of the design of an apartment development not far from where I am in Randwick. Could the architect have drawn some inspiration from the New York scene when designing the apartment block, which is built on the site of ... Read full entry

A Guide to Web Typography In the recipe for great web design, typography is an essential ingredient. Typography for the Web has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee flipped the switch in 1991. Back in the days of IE 1.0, good web typography was something of an oxymoron. Today things are different. Not only do we have browsers that support images (gasp!), but we have the opportunity to ... Read full entry

Dave Dribin launches Daring Furball. Oh hai! I've been working an a rather unusual project, a website, actually: Daring Furball (http://daringfurball.org), a translation of John Gruber's Daring Fireball into LOLspeak. It gets updated once an hour (no feed, yet). Read it and enjoy. Let's hope Gruber keeps on using "jiminy" as I quite like the LOLspeak translation. If your cat owns a Mac Daring Furball is for ... Read full entry

Smart money on the Finn review Martin Ball's painting of Crowded House's Neil Finn has been selected as the winner of the Packing Room Prize in this year's Archibald Prize. The $500 Packing Room Prize, awarded by the gallery staff who handle the entries, went to New Zealander Martin Ball for his portrait of Crowded House's frontman, Neil Finn. "It's a very good picture and it's very Neil Finn," ... Read full entry

Coming soon Imagine this... TO SEE what the future of film distribution might look like, go to a website called ZML.com. It offers 1,700 films for download to personal computers, iPods or other hand-held devices, or to burn to DVD. It is inviting and easy to use, with detailed descriptions of each movie, editors' picks, customer reviews and screen stills. And the prices are reasonable: "Atonement", for instance, costs $2.99. If ... Read full entry

Why short is tweet for the blogging community I'm still to really get into Twitter (in fact I'm yet to login again after setting up my account months ago...) but Guardian media and technology writer, Jeff Jarvis, is a convert. I just Twittered this: "I'm writing a column about Twitter and Twittering that." Not everybody on Twitter saw that update on my life, only those people who care ... Read full entry

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly, or Le Scaphandre et le papillon, was nominated in the Best Directing category in this year's Academy Awards but lost out to the Coen brother's No Country For Old Men. While it was the calculated, cold minded violence of No Country that stayed with me after I left the movie, The Diving Bell And The Butterfly ... Read full entry

Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8 After all the talk of IE8's version targeting feature, web developers will soon be able to see it in action, with the pending release of the Internet Explorer 8 beta. Microsoft executives are expected to reveal further details about the browser's features at the software maker's upcoming Mix conference in Las Vegas next week. Last year at Mix, Microsoft outlined some ... Read full entry

What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Categories Categories are definitely something I need to sort out here, but then again disassociated's entire under-carriage needs a bit of a tweak. Because of the way they are misused all over the Web, categories have grown to become something that we regard in a purely user-centric light. We think of them as navigational tools and guides for users, but in reality, categories are ... Read full entry

Hope dims that Earth will survive Sun's death Hopes that planet Earth may survive the Sun's red giant phase, which will occur in a couple of billion years time (hopefully later rather than sooner), have been dashed by a recent study into the eventuality. In a few billion years, the Sun will fuse the last of its hydrogen into helium, turn into a red giant and expand to 250 times ... Read full entry