Will’s Blog

Sometime last year, I was looking into some of those JavaScript based “popups” that people had on their sites.
You know the ones, you put your mouse over the links and you see this expanded popup like area, hovering atop the text on the page.
Yet, unlike a popup, it does not create a new window. No, [...]

He is able who thinks he is able.

Last Wednesday I posted a blog post about the possible introduction of an Australian Law which the Australian government hopes to enforce.
The article stated that it is supported by the two major political parties (Labor and Liberal Parties).
Anyway, back onto the topic at hand, I received an interesting comment by Senator Andrew Bartlett (of [...]

This is interesting…
Is it a coincidence that I posted one blog entry, and published once, then edited it and republished it again…
Then a few minutes later I get two trackback spams?
Could it be that when my blog “pings” one of the ping servers that pingomatic.com one of the bots checks for the latest updated blog [...]

In recent months, i’ve been seeing more and more of the Australian Blogosphere, and I’ve come to understand that there really is a great deal out there.
I think perhaps it needs a bit more promotion, you know, saying “hey, i’m an Aussie too, read me!”
I’ve created a brand new category just for the promotion of [...]

The monthly Melbourne .NET User Group meeting will be held this Tuesday according to the mdnug.org website.
The speakers for the evening are Chris Hewitt (from Readify), who will be presenting a talk about “What use are the CLR features of SQL Server 2005 anyhow? (for developers).”
And there will also be a presentation by Martin [...]

One of the local Melbourne .NETters who frequents the Melbourne .NET User Group meetings, Jarrad Plunkett has started a blog after a bit of prodding.
And after a bit of TV, he got the RSS feed working too!
So there you go Blog|RSS
Many may, i’m sure, have seen his name come up quite often on the [...]

I was just reading my rss feeds, and got to The Age RSS Feed titled Bloggers, spammers face clampdown (free subscription may be required to view).
Curious, I clicked. And I read.
Here is the first sentence:
Bloggers and spammers could be forced to put their names to political commentary in a bid to close a loophole in [...]

Ok, I’ve got a little book that’s been on my table for over a year.
I’ve read many of the quotes inside of it.
I’ll just post a quote every now and then. (I’ll quote it as it is written in the book. Without changing any words, and so on). I’ve also created a category [...]

Ah, I love this!
Basically, Danae, a character of the comic strip “The Non Sequitur“, calls her fathers’ newspaper a dinosaur blog.
Have a look at the comic strip.
Maybe we should just call all newspapers dinosaur blogs now