Climate change is a fact, says China – ABC News.
Here’s the answer to all those people who say it’s pointless to do anything in Australia until they start doing something in China.
Yeah, Big Bad China is kicking our ass in combating global warming now. They’re turning around that ship of one point whatever billion people faster than we are able to maneuver our 20 something million.
There goes our excuse: now we’re left with just the reason – we’re lazy.
Editorial: ISP filtering policy is not evidence-based – Whirlpool Broadband News.
Must read editorial on the failure that will be the Great Firewall of China.
Make no mistake, this will be another Labor Bungle. Although it won’t cause the loss of life the Insulation Affair did, it’s going to cost us far more money is lost productivity and lost opportunity, even before the program costs, which will be huger than huge.
If you think the Global Economy will not be Internet driven (if it isn’t already) in the future, then you’re living in a dream world. A country without Internet tomorrow will be as competitive as a country without roads was yesterday. And here’s Kevin Rudd and the crew erecting 10kph speed limit signs.
And to what end?
This will do nothing to combat Child Pornography.
Not one thing.
It’ll be as effective at fighting child porn as throwing out all your silverware, except it sounds more related.
Progressive enhancement: pure CSS speech bubbles – Nicolas Gallagher — Blog & Ephemera.
Wow, this is some impressive stuff! Something I’m going to have to look into further for the redesign.
Unicode Characters for Class Names | CSS-Tricks.
Cute idea, but I’m not sure how often I’d use it. I prefer clarity to cleverness.
I have a new idea for a theme running through my head.
If you know me, you might know about my privacy assignment from last year at UOW that involved sock puppets. It was a creative assignment that I really threw myself into, and I kind of like that it was whimsical. Whimsical enough that I set my Twitter profile photo to be one of the puppets.
So I figured, since it’s become associated with me anyway, why not rewrite my theme to reflect this?
The current theme uses a plug in to WordPress called Sandbox that allows you to just design your theme with CSS. Now, I know PHP but the thought of digging through the loop just bugs me. I like that Sandbox just gives me a clean slate to work off of. The theme itself is tinted blue, to reflect my mood & personality and every 4 hours, one of 6 different photos from a recent trip to Canada appears. It was an experiment in Eric Meyer’s ComplexSpiral and using time to change a theme (useful for automatically adding the Christmas logo to your website).
But, I hate it. It’s too much blue. It’s ugly. The files are too large (as I put it to my class recently – I’m moving bathtubs through the internet). And people don’t get the ComplexSpiral. They get it, but they don’t GET it. They don’t notice it, they don’t realise how cool, how special, how different it is.
As someone put it to me awhile ago “Oh yeah, I can do that on MySpace”. Well, no, YOU can’t. You’re just selecting a theme. You’re not doing anything. It’s like if you directed a movie and showed me the movie and said “see?” and I said “Hey I can do that too!” and I put a movie in the DVD. I’m not actually making the movie, ya know.
So, here’s my plan, base a theme on sock puppets. Scan buttons, socks, felt, wool, and start assembling the pics into something cool.
Now just to find the time…
Well I actually did and went against my apple ban and got an iPhone! How unlike me. Truth is I’m sick of waiting for Google to catch up. How long before we’ll actually see the Droid or the Nexus One on Australia’s shores? Yeah I thought so.
Well here’s a neat thing: in the app store – I know I can’t believe I’m discussing the app store either – there’s a neat little app to update your WordPress blog from your phone! That’s right, this is the first iPhone blog post for kshuntley.com.
