I saw the headline Study suggests birds can truly navigate. It cracked me up. It’s cool that birds can navigate over 1000 kilometers, but when they fly into church in the middle of the service they can’t find their way back out… and poop on the projector screen.
Archives for 2008
NearlyFreeSpeech: excellent web hosting
I feel the need for a little positive rant about my web host NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I’ve been using them since 2006 and their service has been excellent. You only pay for what you use, at low rates too. Their support service is quick and friendly. They support a wide range of software. They don’t make many […]
San Francisco Shopping
Californians, help! What’s the go with sales taxes and levies in California? Are they included in the price you see on the shelf? It might sound like a silly question, but you see Australia has a 10% GST, which is on most non-essential items and a few essential ones too. Sometimes the sales receipt tells […]
Designing decisions: links
I’ve been making a wordpress theme thinking about web design. So far I’ve written about heading hierarchy and page width. As with any element, you can style links essentially any way you want to. Should you though? I didn’t think it would be such a difficult decision, but I found myself searching the net for […]
The new STM bags are so cool!
After my searchings for a bag that would hold my camera and my laptop didn’t go as planned; I made a wrap to go around my camera to put in a regular bag… or a laptop bag. I saw some STM bags at the shops this week, which are excellent.
Sorry to see you go…
Dang. I’ve been on holidays for a couple of months so any exposure to the news that I got through other people has essentially gone. It was pure chance that I turned the TV on today and it was on the aerial channel rather than the DVD channel. I saw a tiny snippet of news […]
