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April 2004 - Posts

• DRC web accessibility report

  The UK Disability Rights Commission released a formal report on the accessibilty of 1000 UK web sites the other day (14th April). Not surprisingly the results were not good. Some of the findings: Most websites (81%) fail to satisfy the most basic Web Read More... Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:34 AM by james | 0 Comments

• CSS woes already!

  I was starting to build up the CSS for my cleansed XHTML blog page last night and I thought I must have misunderstood some of the CSS selectors (although they are not that complex). Having had another look this morning, it turns out that IE doesn't support Read More... Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:35 AM by james | 0 Comments

• CSS and XHTML

  For years now one of my main jobs has been persuading people to separate their business logic code from their presentation code in their applications. It's really a no brainer as far as I am concerned, but it constantly amazes me how many applications Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 2:30 PM by james | 0 Comments

• Brisbane

  The next morning we breakfasted at the hotel and then set out to explore Brisbane. I had decided that I wanted to go to an exhibition called Sciencentre that was running over the other side of the river towards the main part of the city. After walking Read More... Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 1:33 PM by james | 0 Comments

• Surfers' Paradise

  We decided that we were going to start the next day with a swim in the sea, so we got up early (well as early as one does on holiday) and walked across the road to the beach. Surfers' does have a very nice beach and, I guess, good surfing conditions. Read More... Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 1:06 PM by james | 1 Comments

• Coff's Harbour

  In the morning we went into the town centre and had some nice raisin toast and coffe for breakfast. There's not much to the centre of Coff's Harbour (incidentally where Russell Crowe hails from I believe) so we headed on up the coast again. After seeing Read More... Posted Monday, April 19, 2004 12:42 PM by james | 0 Comments

• Up the coast

  On with the mini-travelogue! We had a leisurely breakfast the next day and then loaded up the car to start our journey up the coast to Brisbane. After saying goodbye to the kids and then Lee, we headed on up the Pacific Highway. Very nice views can be Read More... Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:29 PM by james | 0 Comments

• Pictures

  Chung pointed out to me yesterday that it was a bit annoying that I haven't posted the large versions of our pictures so when you click on one you just get the small picture again. Quite right and I am in the process of posting the large versions as well. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 15, 2004 10:52 PM by james | 0 Comments

• I'm back

  Well after over 5 weeks away we arrived back at home today. Normally I am ready to come home after 2 weeks away but this time I really didn't want to come back (apart from missing family and friends, of course). Back to work tomorrow - joy... Unfortunately Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:26 AM by james | 1 Comments

• Burbia Day 2

  The next day we loaded the car up with borrowed boogie boards and our swimmers and headed off to see some Palm Beach (where they film the outside bits of Home and Away). After a nice 45 minute drive we pulled up at the car park for Palm Beach and noticed Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 4:07 PM by james | 0 Comments

• Burbia Day 1

  After spending a very pleasant evening with our friends and some friends of friends in a typical Australian pub just north of Sydney, we awoke to the call of the Kookaburras and then the resident alarm clock ("Mummy, mummy - can I get up now"!) We drove Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:45 AM by james | 2 Comments

• Sydney Day 3

  Another good start to the day, although I didn't quite go for the full Australian. We took a cab down to Europcar and picked up our chariot for the next 6 days - a Hyundai Elantia (what a powerhouse). Although we were upgraded from the bargain basement Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:50 AM by james | 2 Comments

• Sydney Day 2

  Another lovely day (30C and clear skies again) started the right way with a full Australian breakfast at the hotel, hmmm... We walked to the Opera House around Circular Quay to see if we could get a tour. After walking around the base of the building Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:35 AM by james | 3 Comments

• Sydney Day 1

  Up at the crack of dawn (well before actually - 3:00am) to catch the flight from Christchurch to Sydney. We had to pay another tourist tax on the way out, the Christchurch departure fee that wasn't included in our 'all taxes prepaid' flights. Happily Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:19 AM by james | 0 Comments

• Christchurch

  We woke up the next morning to strong winds and heavy rain overnight and so decided to modify our plans from hanging around Kaikoura for a while to moving on down to Christchurch. This time we decided to take SH1 rather than SH70, but even so Karen managed Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:00 AM by james | 2 Comments