Random thoughts and observations
The Bureau of Meteorology provides an excellent service, but in the online space has been rather dowdy in its presentation. The plain-text Courier font has been the official style for many years now. Frankly, it looks dull and has possibly driven many web users to commercial sites that present the same data more attractively. The bureau is now moving with the times and is about to unveil a new look and more detail with its South Australian forecasts.
Is my blog the only one in the world to have brown in its theme color? I haven’t seen any others. Why is brown so disdained? Apart from being the color of faeces I can’t see any marketing/style reason why it should be snubbed (probably just nailed it). Brown has never been fashionable in clothes, [...]
A friend tipped me off there was a problem making a guestbook entry on this site. I looked into it, and sure enough, it wasn’t possible to make any comments anywhere. I don’t know why this happened. I think it was probably something to do with alterations I made to the former theme. I’ve now [...]
A free online service called Browsershots is available for web site developers to test how their sites look in different browsers and on different operating systems. You’re able to select from various options and then submit for screenshots to be created. In my case it took over half an hour. I had gone with all [...]
A Kalgoorlie Miner columnist, Kitty Prodonovich, wrote today about “phone tone rage” (PTR). It is quite amazing how the repetitive tones from an innocent little phone can incite so much anger and frustration, but they do. And it’s not just the phone rings; you can also have different sound for message alerts and other thing. [...]
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