My husband is just getting on the same plane I caught a week ago to come home. He’s been packing, returning the rental car, eating dinner at the airport and chatting to me via Google Talk. I’ve been chatting to him while upgrading my blog and organising photos to show you. I took a little […]
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Home from Californ-eye-ay
I’m home! It looks like I’ve brought the weather with me too. It was absolutely perfect the whole time we were in the States and now it’s close to that here… Sunny, cool breeze, just the way I like it (even though it’s supposed to be summer!). I’d love to share some of my trip […]
The allure of Starbucks
Starbucks isn’t quite as popular in Australia as it is in America. Possibly because there aren’t as many of them, but I think it’s because you can find good and/or better coffee at lots of places. I haven’t had too many non-Starbucks coffees in America. One was at the restaurant we went to for our […]
Touchdown in San Francisco!
We arrived in San Francisco at about 10:30am Wednesday morning. We had our photographs and fingerprints taken at customs, got picked up by a town car and headed to Mountain View. Our apartment wasn’t going to be ready until 4 and neither were our keys, which we found out when we tried to pick them […]
Where are the simple mobile phones?!
Shopping with Gran I went shopping with my grandmother today. We were looking to buy her a mobile phone; mainly for emergencies or inconveniences. Her home phone has been on the blink fairly regularly over the last fortnight. Even though it should be fixed now it seemed better that she have a mobile and not […]
Designing decisions: Cascading Style Sheets
When it comes to implementing your web designs CSS is a powerful tool. Learning CSS can be a lot of fun too. I like to think that I’m fairly knowledgeable when it comes to CSS. It’s been fun: I started learning how to change colours and I’ve come to a point where I can lay […]
