An internet filtering company scored a PR coup in Australia recently when it released survey results claiming that Facebook cost business $5 billion a year in lost productivity.
Putting aside the vested interest of the source, which sells a web and email blocking system, the data had managers scrambling to introduce restrictive policies.
Our company’s response was [...]
My Kanotix installation died on me last week. It was a self-inflicted fatality; suicide in other words. I went for over a month without upgrading the distro, just updating software instead.
I finally went ahead and the system shock was all too much. I had the black screen of death, but it locked on me and [...]
I’m testing Zenwalk Linux at the moment. It’s a fast minimalist distribution that provides one application for each task.
It uses the XFCE window manager and includes my favorite programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, the Gimp and OpenOffice.
I’m unfamiliar with the Slackware package management, but it seems simple enough, although there aren’t many in the net repository. [...]
Taking toddlers anywhere is risky business, especially twins. They love to explore. They also have a talent for splitting and toddling in opposite directions. An exasperated parent then has to make a snap judgement about which toddler to retrieve first.
Putting them on a leash seems to be sensible risk-management, hazard-reduction procedure.
I’ve created many web banners and buttons with Adobe Illustrator, but this week was the first time I’ve used the program to create a complete web page.
The client, Grevillea Gardens, provides self-contained accommodation in Bright. Clearly there was no need for a content management system and most standard templates are too dull to consider.
Using Illustrator [...]
Political commentator Paul Kelly was scathing in his attack on Telstra’s new management this morning.
Kelly said on ABC Television the Telstra assault on government regulation is alienating all parties, driving down the share price, and has no hope of success.
I have to agree with him. I’ll go further and say it’s damaging the public goodwill [...]
Four Corners this week ran an interesting report on nuclear energy and whether it should be considered in Australia to reduce greenhouse emissions. Why not?
Even if someone is skeptical about greenhouse, they should acknowledge that nuclear power generation causes less pollution.
Fossil fuels are finite. So is uranium, but there is no immediate shortage threatening, as [...]
A large chunk of the agenda for this month’s Alpine Shire Council meeting is devoted to Greenhouse emissions and climate protection milestones.
The agenda confirms that council received funding to employ a Greenhouse Officer. I joked here when the job was advertised that I thought it was a horticultural position.
But it’s no joke. Our council is [...]
I’ve spent most of today designing a new web site for Bogong GP Training. The brief is different from most of my projects in that the site will be fairly static and must look attractive.
Generally I specialise in content management systems. I like them to look good, but mostly you have to sacrifice some creativity [...]
I spent most of today configuring an order management system for my web site hosting service. Installation was a breeze, using Fantastico through my control panel.
There was a lot of work needed though to modify and configure the script. I’m using phpCOIN, a free software package that was designed for web hosts. It creates invoices [...]
