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Shopping for the Turtles

November 20, 2008

The Milang Campus and the Milang Old School House Community Centre have been selling t-shirts, badges and jewellery to help the schools efforts to save the turtles of Lake Alexandrina.
The turtles have been dying due to Tube Worms, now entering the Lake due to the rising salinity. The worms create a coral-like encrustation around the shells [...]

When Signals Fail

September 9, 2008

The addition of a digital set top box to my living room was certainly money well spent. Reception of the analogue signal is fuzzy to non-existent for some channels where I live, but now I can see all the SD and HD channels from Adelaide in crystal clear widescreen (although my telly is not HD … [...]

A Day-Off Discovery

July 2, 2008

Being stuck in bed, having taken the day off work with a queasy tummy, a sore throat and a voice alternating between “Squeaky Voiced Teen” and Barry White, I took the opportunity to tune in to the live taping of Net@Night. It’s one of the podcasts I listen to (along with a few other TWiT [...]

The slides.

June 10, 2008

These are the slides from my presentation at Connecting Up 08, some may lack meaning without the audio to go with them, but the general idea is there.
Apologies for the blank slide 7, I uploaded this three times to try and sort it out…(even re formatting the original slide) but no luck. It was a slide [...]

Google Calendar – The Sauce to Our Fritz

May 21, 2008

One of the tools we use at work, and which I showed off briefly at the Connecting Up 08 conference is the Google Calendar. I use it to plan/keep track of what I’m up to, as do some of the other staff at MOSHCC. We share those calendars to keep track of where we all [...]

Flock – the web browser

May 20, 2008

I spoke today at Connecting Up 08, in Brisbane, my presentation: “Virtually Breathing: MOSHCC’s Fritz and Sauce method for dealing with the flood of information”
I’ll post a few things out of the presentation here, since it is the inspiration for this new blog!
I gave a short demo of Flock, the social web browser, which is [...]