May 26, 2012

Newspaper novels: The truth will make you fret

There aren’t many novels about newspapers. Stories involving print journalists are far fewer than those about lawyers, soldiers and police for example. That’s a little surprising when you consider that journalists are writers. But when you think about it, we are craftsmen while novelists are artists. We ply a trade while they follow their creative [...]

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Online page creators

There are some options appearing now for people who want to create web pages online and have them hosted for free. The first I came across was Google Page Creator. It adds another feature to the Google suite. A more recent entry to this market is Weebly, which I think has the edge over Google’s [...]

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New forum script

I experimented today with a new forum script called Vanilla. My initial observations are that it’s easy to install, attractive and minimalist. The download was just 380kb. It’s not bloated or overloaded with unnecessary features. There’s an active support community and a wide range of add-ons. Word Press integration is feasible. On the downside it’s [...]

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Internet Explorer 7

I’ve installed the latest release candidate of IE7 on my laptop. It’s fairly impressive and has some features that are similar to Flock and Firefox. The most obvious improvement on previous versions of IE is the implementation of tabbed browsing. It takes a while adjusting to the look and feel, which will make the transition [...]

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Unusual events

I was just writing an email to a former colleague when it occurred to me that I should post some of it here as well … Kalgoorlie has some iconic attractions including brothels and two-up. Tomorrow’s front page features a dispute between a brothel madam and the local council over car parking! Last week we [...]

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