28.3.08
26.3.08
One Australian's view of America
Here is an article that was published in the Age today.
A travel writer took a tour of America and these are his thoughts that came about after the trip. If you are interested in what Australia thinks of America read this.
Of course this is only one view but I found it to be on course with those I have talked to over here.
A travel writer took a tour of America and these are his thoughts that came about after the trip. If you are interested in what Australia thinks of America read this.
Of course this is only one view but I found it to be on course with those I have talked to over here.
18.3.08
Whats up
So what have we been up to.
Brandon and I have been able to go on a few dates since we have a live-in-babysitter (my sister Abby) :-)
Last Saturday we went to Melbourne and heard Muscles acoustic. Muscles is a guy from Melbourne who makes electronic music. Yamaha is holding a series were they bring in different artists who play their music on...of course..a Yamaha piano. It was interesting listening to Muscles because he had to convert his electronic music to a form that he could play on a piano with no accompaniment.
He did a good job. You could hear the electronic beat slowed to work on a piano.
Fun stuff...going to see emerging artists, especially when they are playing outside of their normal comfort zone.
View from the "Roof Top Bar" where you can watch movies with the Melbourne skyline surrounding you.
I have taken on two new work projects. They are with different companies which is cool for me. It is good to get more experience outside of the company I am doing work for now.
One company manages rental properties and they wanted me to add and fix content that is on their site.
The other job is for a friend who is doing post-doc research. She is researching how i-pods can be used to help teach children with autism certain tasks. She wants me to be the one who loads all the content onto the i-pods and checks to make sure the children will be able to access everything easily.
Abby is going to New Zealand for a bit of exploring this coming weekend and the following week. The rest of us will be heading to Dixons Creek for the church family camp. We are just praying that the weather won't be too hot. The end of last week and the beginning if this week have been very hot. I think hovering around 37-38 would be safe to say as normal for that time period. Yesterday it was 39.7 when I checked. We are in autumn now, I guess we are experiencing an Indian summer.
The following weekend we are taking the youth fellowship group over to Frankston to have a group get together with the youth in Frankston (Blackwood kids and maybe others). We will stay Saturday night and go to the Frankston morning worship, have lunch, do our youth Bible study, and then try to make it home for our evening service. I am looking forward to spending a longer length of time with the kids. Car rides are always good for conversation.
Jolene continues to dance and is always reminding me that when she turns three she will be taking ballet lessons. That is true, she will be taking lessons and she will be the happiest girl in our house for a very long time. Right now she is happy enough looking at ballet books from the library and teaching herself some "moves".
Jolene in her ballet outfit.
Adele is stubborn what more can I say. She could walk but she just can't get her stubbornness out of the way. She is talking a bit more. I just discovered today that she is saying "papers" and "stick" now. I think she says a lot more that we know but her pronunciation is not as clear as Jolene's was at this age. Adele is making us work a bit more :-)
Baby X is doing fine. I had an appointment this morning and everything was normal, which I am thankful for.
Brandon continues to do his design work from home which is quite a luxury for us. I try not to abuse it...sometimes it is very tempting. Adele knows where he is and will crawl out to the shed were he works and bang on the door until he answers. I usually get a call on the intercom letting me know there is an intruder :-)
This is a bit to chew on so I will stop.
People on the beach doing some sort of martial arts:
Brandon and I have been able to go on a few dates since we have a live-in-babysitter (my sister Abby) :-)
Last Saturday we went to Melbourne and heard Muscles acoustic. Muscles is a guy from Melbourne who makes electronic music. Yamaha is holding a series were they bring in different artists who play their music on...of course..a Yamaha piano. It was interesting listening to Muscles because he had to convert his electronic music to a form that he could play on a piano with no accompaniment.
He did a good job. You could hear the electronic beat slowed to work on a piano.
Fun stuff...going to see emerging artists, especially when they are playing outside of their normal comfort zone.
View from the "Roof Top Bar" where you can watch movies with the Melbourne skyline surrounding you.
I have taken on two new work projects. They are with different companies which is cool for me. It is good to get more experience outside of the company I am doing work for now.
One company manages rental properties and they wanted me to add and fix content that is on their site.
The other job is for a friend who is doing post-doc research. She is researching how i-pods can be used to help teach children with autism certain tasks. She wants me to be the one who loads all the content onto the i-pods and checks to make sure the children will be able to access everything easily.
Abby is going to New Zealand for a bit of exploring this coming weekend and the following week. The rest of us will be heading to Dixons Creek for the church family camp. We are just praying that the weather won't be too hot. The end of last week and the beginning if this week have been very hot. I think hovering around 37-38 would be safe to say as normal for that time period. Yesterday it was 39.7 when I checked. We are in autumn now, I guess we are experiencing an Indian summer.
The following weekend we are taking the youth fellowship group over to Frankston to have a group get together with the youth in Frankston (Blackwood kids and maybe others). We will stay Saturday night and go to the Frankston morning worship, have lunch, do our youth Bible study, and then try to make it home for our evening service. I am looking forward to spending a longer length of time with the kids. Car rides are always good for conversation.
Jolene continues to dance and is always reminding me that when she turns three she will be taking ballet lessons. That is true, she will be taking lessons and she will be the happiest girl in our house for a very long time. Right now she is happy enough looking at ballet books from the library and teaching herself some "moves".
Jolene in her ballet outfit.
Adele is stubborn what more can I say. She could walk but she just can't get her stubbornness out of the way. She is talking a bit more. I just discovered today that she is saying "papers" and "stick" now. I think she says a lot more that we know but her pronunciation is not as clear as Jolene's was at this age. Adele is making us work a bit more :-)
Baby X is doing fine. I had an appointment this morning and everything was normal, which I am thankful for.
Brandon continues to do his design work from home which is quite a luxury for us. I try not to abuse it...sometimes it is very tempting. Adele knows where he is and will crawl out to the shed were he works and bang on the door until he answers. I usually get a call on the intercom letting me know there is an intruder :-)
This is a bit to chew on so I will stop.
People on the beach doing some sort of martial arts:
6.3.08
Zen Garden, a project....delete IE6 and get FireFox.....now
So I have recently been spending many hours on a project to design a webpage with only CSS. The site I am designing a page for is called css Zen Garden. Have a look and see the other designs posted.
What is CSS you ask?
CSS is the code that you are supposed to use when making your site look good. HTML is for content only. So HTML tells your browser that there are paragraphs, headers, lists, etc. and here is the content that is supposed to be in those.
The CSS code tells the browser everything else.
Here is my design with only HTML
Here is my design with the CSS code applied (warning if you view this in IE6 or below it won't look right...I haven't put any hacks in yet)
Big difference huh? I drew all the images and then told CSS where to put them along with how I wanted the content to look. People used to embed all the styling within the HTML which is very wrong now days. It slows everything up because of all the extra junk code within in the HTML and plus why do it when you can use CSS?
CSS allows you place all the content where ever your heart desires...down to the very pixel if you wish.
A thorn in designers sides is internet explorer 6 and lower. IE6 came out before certain standards for CSS and other things were decided. They assumed one way and wrote it into their code. Well when CSS broke out they assumed wrong and now we have to put hacks into the code so that the viewers see pages correctly.
So if you have IE6 or below get rid of it (delete it). IE7 is lots better, supports png files and even has some of the math correct. Your best choice though is FireFox. It is a opensource browser. Opensource means that anyone can make it better so it stays on top of all the changes to website developing code. Download FireFox for free here.
All of the designers out there would be forever thankful.
M
*notice*
As my smart cousin pointed out...you should download FireFox FIRST and then delete IE not the other way around :-)
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