Archive for July, 2005

Some JavaScript stuff

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Noticed this on Scott Isaacs’ blog (bolding signifies the area that I found the most interesting):
Having a strong framework for building and integrating rich, highly interactive components enables MSN to deliver much better (and consistent) user experiences. The Framework provides us with a client-side component model, network stacks, firefox compatibility, and OO language enhancements [...]

Is world peace achievable?

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

I was having a bit of a look around the web for links on introducing someone to Buddhism, and came across a link which has the following words in the top image on the page:
“World Peace: Everyone’s Business!”
And here’s the actual content of the page:
Most of us in this world do not want war and [...]

My TechEd Flair

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Following on Michael Still’s lead, I decided to do a remix of the Tech Ed Flair as well.
Ok, here’s my entry below…

Was just something I whipped up quickly.
Seriously though, how many Tech Eds can the Channel 9 guy get to in a year?

Melbourne .NET User Group tommorow

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Just in case anyone missed it, this month’s User Group meeting for MDNUG/AusDev has been changed to tommorow, July 21st rather than the usual 4th Tuesday of every month.
There is 3 planned topics for this month’s user group meeting as listed on both user groups’ websites:
1. Tangible Architect – Peter Hailiday
One of their claims: “With [...]

To a friend hurt in London

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

To my friend Sam Ly, injured on the bus travelling to work in London.
Hope you get well soon mate!
I met Sam on my first day at Caulfield, during student orientation. I was having trouble logging into the computer network, so it was suggested to me that I go seek help from the IT Services (ITS) [...]

London Explosions

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

A day after London received the rights to hold the 2012 Olympic Games, there have been explosions in the London Subway as well as on a Double Decker bus.
Here’s one news article from BBC…
From the BBC article:
One caller to BBC Five said his friend had seen “the bus ripped open like a can of sardines [...]

Web Design Patterns

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Was just looking around the web and saw this link on Matt Mullenweg’s blog to a page with some nice overviews for Web Design Patterns.
Very cool. On that page they’ve put things into several different categories ranging from web design patterns for different Site Types, different User Experiences, ECommerce type websites, to different methods of [...]

Funny things

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

Look’s like MSN Messenger’s been down again. I’ve gotten about 1000 hits on that post I wrote awhile ago about the MSN Messenger Error “8 1 0 0 0 3 7 8″.
If you want a little laugh, have a read of this post by Rory Blyth. Rory’s drawings/comic strips always adds that extra little bit [...]