Meredith James

This has me gob smacked. I can just see apple buying this IP and including these features in the iPhone. With the rumours that apple are looking at including video calls in future versions, imagine if they included this technology. The future ladies and gentlemen is going to be amazing

Just finished reading Tom's article; "Will Facebook kill Twitter" and he brought up an interesting point;

"But there is one crucial difference: Facebook is built around friend connections - people you know in real life. You can stay connected with them and know what’s on their mind. But if you’re anything like me, your Facebook friend list contains many a long-forgotten acquaintance or high school mate whose opinions or preoccupations you don’t really care that much about." Read Voirol's full article

I couldn't have said it better myself. When I first started using MSN IM all those years ago, the status updates was my first flirtation with status updates. It was that instant bite of info about someone. You didn't have to go into a lengthy discussion with them about the weather or life the universe and everything. You would know exactly what was going on without actually having to strike up a conversation. Ok that may sound completely lazy but keeping up-to-date with friends and family's lives globally would be a nightmare.

It's taken a few years but now every one is on the bandwagon. Trying to explain to people why exactly you are telling the world that you are "having a coffee", "watching some old t.v. show", "not calling the police when you find some guy asleep in your house (http://twitter.com/dlprager)", "being drenched by the rain" or what every it may be,  if difficult. Maybe it knowing that out in the big wide world someone may actually give a shit. And maybe, just maybe, someone may want to strike up that conversation that you were avoiding all those years ago when the status updates were invented.  God knows.

Just stumbled across the PARK(ing) Day 2009 website http://www.parkingday.org/. As described by them its a  "global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks." Not sure if you would say if its global if its only San Fran, but anyway...

I was wondering if this would take off here in Sydney. What do you think?

This would have to be one of the coolest ideas for a business card.You can even download the instructions from www.thingiverse.com

About a month ago I was at the Redfern opening of their refurbished park. The great thing was Sydney City Council was giving out plants for free to anyone that wanted them. I adore fresh home grown tomatoes and have fond memories of my parents vege patch. There is nothing like the smell and taste. Supermarket brought ones are tasteless in comparison.

SO... living in a small unit, with a tiny balcony and desperate to relive my childhood, I brought my tomato plant home, (big red variety) watered and lovingly tended to it. It quickly out grew the small pot and I had a brain wave - 1 2Litre milk bottle + 1 knife = new recycled pot for my lovely plant!

So as you can see my happy "milk" tomato are coming along really well. Will post updates of their progress:)

Finally after 13 years I have framed and hung my paintings "Postcards from Alaska".  Although it turned out to be an expensive venture I am happy to finally see them hanging.

You could cast a critical eye over them and say they could have been better, but I am just happy with the memories that they bring back. I painted them when I was 17/18 so I don't feel too bad. If you feel like a gander they are over here>>

Monday is a short bike video with Mike Bentham that we shot in the summer, the idea was to make something fun, for fun. hope you guys like it. Daniel HA Stewart www.144productions.net

I LOVE this!

I just did this tweek to my settings in Firefox-3 after reading it over at Matt-Helps and mate it works a treat!.

Matt have discovered that broadband users can get a significant speed increase from Firefox just by changing a couple of settings.  Firefox is distributed with settings that will work with any machine or setup, but really anyone with a half-decent connection can make these changes and get a great speed increase, and here's how you do it!

Inside the address bar type:

about:config

and then find:

network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining

and set them both to "true".  This adjusts the pipelining settings.

Then find

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

and set it to 8, though you should feel free to play with this number a little and tweak it as you see fit - the article http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining.maxrequests  suggests that 8 is easily sufficient.

Finally, right-click on any setting and select 'new' and then 'integer'.   Set the name to "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" (you might want to copy & paste it) and set the value to "0" (zero).  This removes the render delay. 

And thats all folks - except that its a lot faster!