Archives for May 2008

The red Rosella

It was late afternoon when I heard a chittering in the neighbour’s tree. I looked up to see a brightly coloured bird. After dashing inside to fetch the camera I grabbed a quick shot before the bird flew away. It turned out to be an Eastern Rosella. The neighbour saw me looking around for the […]

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How to embed YouTube videos without invalid code

I’m developing a new blog and decided to check the validity of what I was doing. Once I recovered from the shock of 67 errors I realised that 2 embedded YouTube videos may well have been contributing problems. So I went searching and found this excellent advice: If you’re looking to embed a YouTube video […]

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Differentiating Attention: I wish Twitter had grouping

Or, I like some tweets better than others. After spotting this item in Read/WriteWeb — What People Say When They Tweet: Our favorite high volume Twitter user, though is “chandraxray,” a space station that tweets its location up to 350 times per day. — I checked on who @chandraxray is following and found a couple […]

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The giant Leonberger at our dog class

I meet a Leonberger for the first time. What a giant dog!

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Use Apple Mail in Leopard? This book may be for you

I don’t really use Apple Mail myself — these days I do all my email via the Gmail web interface. Plenty of people out there do use Mail.app, and may find the Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard ebook useful: You’ll learn how to use and customize the Mail window, control the size and […]

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Military choppers formate nearby

· Helicopters fly overhead and nearby all the time round here. Usually they’re Rescue or tour helicopters, and a very familiar sound. One time it was a film crew who spent 45 minutes circling the top of Mt Victoria filming a scene for a TV show. You can see the camera fixed to the front […]

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Photoshop book free – for a few weeks

SitePoint say: Our Sensational Photoshop book is now FREE to Download! That’s right! No catches, no samples. For a LIMITED TIME only, a COMPLETE COPY of Corrie Haffly’s Brilliant Photoshop Web primer is free to download. [Mentioned on the Wise Women mailing list.] By the way: the catch is that you must supply your email […]

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The label goes where?

I’ve recently been testing a web application that does some horrible things — for example, clicking what appears to be one link in a navigation bar sends (incomplete) information away as a final submission. There’s not even a warning. This behaviour should be changed before the application launches: I’ve lodged a bug report. You have […]

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Distract-a-driver

I keep coming across news reports of tourists involved in road accidents. In some parts of the country I’ve seen useful arrows marked on the roads, reminding drivers to move to the left — many of our visitors come from countries where they drive on the right. New Zealand offers plenty of distractions for drivers: […]

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Autumn at the Karori Sanctuary

Every couple of months it’s my great privilege as a volunteer to optimise photos and code up a newsletter for the Karori Sanctuary. The latest Nature’s Corner newsletter, Early to Mid Autumn 2008 is now online. It features: Hihi Herald; White Autumn Flowers; March of the Borer Beetles; Fruits of the Forest; Tiny Tigers of […]

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In honour of #2

Last night I saw an episode of the Simpsons where Lisa has to deal with a new girl in class who’s smarter than she is. At one point she tries to persuade herself there’s nothing wrong with being second. Cue the latest Get a Mac ad, Pep Rally. 🙂 [Via news: Jobs to keynote WWDC~Microsoft […]

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Virtual Telescope needs Macs with Windows

I was getting my hopes up about Microsoft’s new Virtual telescope — I’m fairly sure I recently saw a presentation about it amongst the TED Talks podcasts I download. As I recall, it looked pretty fabulous. (Ah, yes: Roy Gould & Curtis Wong: WorldWide Telescope) Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches […]

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