You wish you were here…

Here’s the QTVR that I wanted to share yesterday. Nothing fancy, just a shot from outside the main reception area at the resort. should have done more of them!!! Enjoy! [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ]

Wow! Need I say anymore? What a wonderful weekend, the weather was next to perfect (albeit at times possibly too hot), the setting was STUNNING, and the wedding and reception were rock solid! Amy looked spectacular, and Oliver couldn’t hold back on the emotion of the day. We had a terrific time which panned out [...]

And so the end of year journey’s begin. First cab off the rank, sunny Coffs Harbour, for OJ‘s wedding. Here’s a shiny Google Map for anyone who is interested: [gmap name='coffs' width='400' height='300' lat='-30.271623' lng='153.142022' zoom='15' desc='11 Firman Dr, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450, Australia'] I’ll probably post piccies once I get back. You will wish [...]

So you like coding in Ruby, but want to optimise your production speed? Rails and Vim. OJ, this one’s for you.

We are in the process of experimenting with Radiant CMS at work, and while looking at the sites that have been built with it, I stumbled across an excellent (and aparently well loved) Ruby site called Try Ruby (in your browser). I’m sure im the last person in the world to have visited this site [...]

Another example of what I think is an inappropriate banner ad showing up on fairly seroius news articles. Image courtesy SMH.com.au

So, ive had a few minor revelations over the past few days – which i’d like to share and get feedback on. Here they are – in no particular order. 1. Small business and ubicomp As I look out my window, I see a man steering a small boat underneath the Anzac bridge. He’s a [...]

Im not a religous person. But last night I was a believer! Telstra Stadium has never looked, felt, or sounded so good (not even when Sydney are playing Collingwood)!! Before this event, Ive watched every U2 dvd, listened to every U2 song, and learnt every U2 lyric. While growing up, Edge was my hero, and [...]

Yup, a very clever move. The Flash player will no longer be a proprietry closed source plugin, shunned by the developers of the world. Hopefully the donation of the Flash player to Mozilla will herald a new age of interative development, and better and more standards compliant integration of Flash content with HTML, AJAX and [...]

Well, if this isn’t the coolest (im sure i’ve said that before!!) app to come out of google… Gmail on your mobile! Image © Google.com And I don’t just mean surfing the Gmail website on your mini mobile browser… I mean full blown Java app designed SPECIFICALLY for your thumb Seriously, it is fantastic, and [...]

Last week I had the need to animate a mask over a dynamic text field. Having loaded the content successfully, and setting the dynamic text field to the value of the XML, I then initiated a mask transition that affected the display of the dynamic text. (Ive mocked up a set of simple examples to [...]

Ive been thinking a lot lately. Not about anything in particular – just all kinds of stuff. Truth be told, I was thinking about what I wanted to blog about. And it was while thinking about this that I started to think about original thought. Obviously i’m not the first person to have an original [...]

Only 9 days to go till the U2 concert that has been postponed since April this year. Funny thing was that it was meant to be on April Fool’s day… anyway, im geared up for it now, listening to all the old stuff, a bit of the new stuff, and a splash of the odd [...]