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 […]
Birds’ sense of direction
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.
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 […]