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Sustainable Land Use?

2007-04-20T14:13:00.001+10:00

Tyagarah Sustainable Community AllianceIn 1999 the Byron Flora and Fauna study identified the Tyagarah area as:* "An integral part of the coastal vegetation wildlife corridor" and* "An area of High Ecological Significance, containing core native vegetation."Sounds like a silly place to put a 5 day music festival and 50,000 plus people.But wait, theres more. The developers are not planning on

Site Details

2007-04-20T13:32:00.000+10:00

A map showing the site that Noble & Chugg (bluesfest) want to develop.Click it to or view the whole map on a new page.Lets be clear! The proposed site borders a national park, contains high conservation value flora, and is smack in the middle of a wildlife coridoor.Oh, and it floods. Sometimes 3 times per year. Dont give me any "ooh but its a local event" rubbish either. Having Coca Cola

The Proposed Site!!

2007-04-19T14:18:00.001+10:00

The Picture of the new bluesfest site that offended Bluesfest Inc so much that they have threatened legal action, and have removed any suggestion of site criticism from their bulletin board. The moderator is careful to leave comments supporting the site.Click the pic for the big picture.

Bluesfest: Roots and Leaves!

2007-04-13T16:38:00.001+10:00

Peter Noble, organiser of the Blues and Roots Festival, says change is afoot for the event. Is the bluesfest leaving its roots? With Coca Cola ads blasting the site from multiple screens, and many punters munching on pluto pups and hot chips, it would appear so. Surely the Gold coast is more appropriate for an

The Peter Noble and Jan Barham Show

2007-04-11T14:28:00.001+10:00

Brought to you by coca cola and jim beam.Read on for the article from the Northern Star.20.01.2007By HEATH GILMORENew location has to be big and close to festival’s home base of Byron BayPETER NOBLE has big plans for the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival — a 121 hectare site only 15 minutes away from downtown Byron Bay.The Bluesfest supremo is again scouting for a local site after passing up an

Bluesfest at tyagarah

2007-04-11T11:58:00.001+10:00

Mitra Ardron, Byron resident and member of the Tyagarah Sustainable Community Alliance, writes:Byron Bay forged its image as an alternative community hostingintimate, quirky events, including the East Coast Blues and RootsFestival, first held in a converted piggery before a few hundred stonedhippies.Last weekend’s version drew 15,000 punters and wassponsored by Bundaberg Rum, Coca Cola, Jim

Label clouds for blogger

2007-03-30T19:21:00.001+10:00

Beta Blogger Label Cloud

21st century Skills

2007-03-29T12:16:00.001+10:00

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Framework for 21st Century Learning

ICT continuum

2007-03-24T13:46:00.001+11:00

http://clas.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/ITC_website/index.htm How effectively do you use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in your teaching?Use this ICT Continuum to review your practice in terms of the integration of ICT in your teaching and learning.Download a copy of the ICT Continuum.The ICT Continuum describes the knowledge, skills, understandings and capacities teachers need to

Hacker

2007-03-22T12:37:00.001+11:00

Is this for real?Is Your Child A Computer Hacker? There are, unfortunately, many hacking manuals available in bookshops today. A few titles to be on the lookout for are: "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson; "Neuromancer" by William Gibson; "Programming with Perl" by Timothy O'Reilly; "Geeks" by Jon Katz; "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling; "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland;

The Fastest way to find High-Quality Freebies on the Web

2007-03-20T00:14:00.001+11:00

excellent search tipsThe Fastest way to find High-Quality Freebies on the Web | BittBox Thanks to site’s like Digg, Del.icio.us, Slashdot, Reddit, etc.which rely on users submitting the best content from around the web,there exists an easy way to find the best of the best using a quickGoogle search trick. I’m not saying it never happens, but most ofthe urls submitted to these popular social

Movie Database

2007-03-19T23:56:00.001+11:00

EMDBEMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With anautomatic import from the database of IMDB, export to csv, text orcomplete website, thumbnail cover preview, a loan tracker, searchfunction and multi-language user interface. EMDB is written in C++using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and doesn't need a .NET framework orany other external libraries. And best of all... it's free

teens and blogs

2007-03-19T23:48:00.001+11:00

from the times online...What does this mean for school libraries? What does it mean for parents?Dear diary, I prefer to vent my private angst in cyberspace-Arts & Entertainment-Books-TimesOnline A survey of 1,019 teenagers suggests that almost half write blogs while fewer than one in ten keeps a traditional pen-and-paper diary.According to the survey, commissioned by Sky's Young Journalist

Community walk

2007-03-19T09:24:00.001+11:00

Mullumbimby - CommunityWalkwhat are some of the uses for such a great tool in the classroom?Powered by ScribeFire.

cbox, advanced tagboard service

2007-03-18T14:53:00.001+11:00

Wow, this looks good.Cbox · About · Free Tagboard and Chat Widget for your Site Get a Cbox tagboard for your website or blog and let your visitors leave you messages or chat with each other. Getting started couldn't be easier – sign up, get your code, and start chatting!Cbox gives your website an edge over the rest. It attracts visitors and keeps them coming back for more. It gives people with

10 Tips for Attracting More Comments

2007-03-18T14:26:00.001+11:00

http://performancing.com/node/1210

Hal Higdon's Marathon Training guide

2007-03-18T14:01:00.001+11:00

PEOPLE DIFFER GREATLY IN ABILITY, but ideally before starting a marathon program, you should have been running about a year. You should be able to comfortably run distances between 3 and 6 miles. You should be training 3-5 days a week, averaging 15-25 miles a week. You should have run an occasional 5-K or 10-K race. It is possible to run a marathon with less of a training base (

teenage blogging

2007-03-18T09:03:00.001+11:00

A survey of 1019 teenagers reported last week that only one in10 of them wrote a diary compared with the 47 per cent who blog.Could there have been, in the seven or eight years since thearrival of the blog and online diary, a cultural shift of such asize that the privacy of the bound diary is now regarded as somequaint, predigital relic, as derisory to young people as someVictorian ideas about

John Mayer at bluesfest

2007-03-17T18:08:00.001+11:00

John Mayer from wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_mayerJohn Clayton Mayer (born on October 16, 1977) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. After originally performing mainly acoustic

Lee "Scratch" Perry

2007-03-17T15:17:00.001+11:00

Coming to bluesfestMore here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Scratch_PerryPowered by ScribeFire.

Scribefire looks great.

2007-03-17T14:56:00.001+11:00

Lets me drag and drop an image, what about tags?Version 1.4 — March 7, 2007 — 351 KB Version 1.4 changes:* Rebranding of Performancing for Firefox as ScribeFire* Improved support for Blogger accounts* Improved file upload supportPowered by ScribeFire.

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) :: Firefox Add-ons

2007-03-17T14:51:00.000+11:00

ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) :: Firefox Add-ons: "ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) 1.4 Homepageby Christopher Finke, PerformancingScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog

netWeather v2.0

2007-03-17T13:42:00.000+11:00

netWeather v2.0: "AccuWeather.com's netWeather v2.0 is free, and easy to add to any page or blog.Features:# Choose from one of six sizes and eight colors# Choose from locations around the world# Display current conditions, five-day forecast, temperature maps, and radar or precipitation maps# Available in English or Spanish# Now available for your MySpace page!"

Larry Carlton - at bluesfest

2007-03-17T12:41:00.000+11:00

Larry Carlton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Larry Carlton (born 2 March 1948) is an American jazz guitarist, dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with more popular bands. Over his career Carlton has won three Grammys for his performances and compositions, including the theme music for the hit television series, Hill Street Blues (1981).Carlton started

Mullum Writers

2007-03-16T17:53:00.000+11:00

Mullum Writers: "On the Weekend I...went to the Ballina Water slides for my friend's birthday.Then I...went home and played on the PS2 with my Dad.We tried to get to the next cliff but we kept on falling into the water.I felt frustrated."

Now the class scapegoat is the teacher - Opinion - smh.com.au

2007-03-16T14:52:00.000+11:00

Now the class scapegoat is the teacher - Opinion - smh.com.au: "No one has a good word to say about teachers. Not so long ago they were well-informed and well-respected members of the community whose advice was sought after and highly valued."By Dale Spender

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

2007-03-16T14:28:00.000+11:00

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?: "Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser's toolbar, blogging will be a snap. Or rather, a click. Clicking BlogThis! creates a mini-interface to Blogger prepopulated with a link to the web page you are visiting, as well as any text you have highlighted on that page. Add additional text if you wish and then publish or post from within BlogThis!"

Another post at mullumwriters...

2007-03-15T15:25:00.000+11:00

Mullum Writers: THE HOPKEYWAT:“OKAY get out your spelling sheets” announced Mrs Bettison. Thanks to Madeline we get to do a 300 word test on Wednesday…TODAY! I was in great despair that she would change her mind(Mrs B hadn’t got a very good relationship with the class yet)then Leah had an idea"

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1

2007-03-14T21:37:00.000+11:00

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking and utilizing online tools, the demand for easier and more efficient ways of learning is on the rise. To me, the

YouTube's massive copyright suit - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au

2007-03-14T12:46:00.000+11:00

YouTube's massive copyright suit - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au: "Media conglomerate Viacom sued Google and its internet video-sharing site YouTube for more than $US1 billion ($A1.27 billion) today in the biggest challenge yet to the web search leader's strategy to dominate the online video market.The lawsuit accuses Google and its popular online video unit of 'massive intentional copyright

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker

2007-03-14T06:43:00.000+11:00

This looks useful:Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD - Lifehacker: "Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task. There's plenty of software that tackles this sort of thing for a price, but as a lover of open source software, free's always my first choice.Luckily for

3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger - Freshblog

2007-03-13T17:49:00.000+11:00

3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger - Freshblog: "Alright. As the title suggests, there are now 3 ways that I'm aware of to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger. All of these methods make tags that are picked up by technorati too, because Technorati tags don't have to link to technorati. They can link to del.icio.us and technorati will find them because of the rel: tag

Caedes Desktop Backgrounds - Photography, Abstract, 3D - Caedes Desktop Wallpaper - Caedes.net

2007-03-13T17:37:00.000+11:00

Beautiful stuff. Free. Why look elsewhere?Caedes Desktop Backgrounds - Photography, Abstract, 3D - Caedes Desktop Wallpaper - Caedes.net: "Welcome to Caedes, the Desktop Wallpaper and Artist CommunityCaedes is a close community of artists, designers, and photographers who share their work through the medium of computer desktop wallpaper. Feel free to browse the galleries, comment on other's work,

del.icio.us/help/firefox

2007-03-13T17:24:00.000+11:00

This has to be my alltime favourite firefox plugin:NEW del.icio.us Bookmarks for Firefox All the power of del.icio.us is now in your browser. The del.icio.us Bookmarks for Firefox extension replaces your Firefox bookmarking experience and gives you a better way to ... organize your bookmarkscollect and retrive lots of bookmarks quicklyaccess your bookmarks collection from any computer Cool new

Back to School

2006-07-18T14:30:00.000+10:00

Back from Two weeks teaching the Intel Teach to the Future Course. A most rewarding time. Was great to meet and work with other professionals in the area of IT in Education.Back to the real work now though. Teaching my classes. This term I am expected to get each child logged into the new SIBE system. (Secure internet, bowsing and email) What a labourious task. After recieving all user

Inverell is Cold

2006-07-13T14:34:00.000+10:00

Am teaching a course at Inverell at the moment. -8 at nite. Brrrr.I'm here taking a group of teachers through the Intel Teach to the Future course.

CPU: part 2

2006-05-26T12:31:00.000+10:00

The saga continues. They wanted a response to questions regarding my intent in setting up a proof of concept page (for four hours) whereby a malicious user could harvest usernames and passwords from a spoofed site.I was given 3 days 2 respond. Will keep you posted as more comes to light.

Happy Birthday Tahl

2006-05-26T12:29:00.000+10:00

Tahls Birthday today. Happy 12 years Tahl

CSS tutorial

2006-04-27T16:54:00.000+10:00

Thanks to Mark Gilham from *The Rock* Public School for the link to this CSS tutorial.

IE 7

2006-04-27T16:06:00.000+10:00

Read a post yesterday that suggested IE 7 was such a huge leap forward on IE 6 that if they (M$) keep it up, then IE 8 could become the new firefox.Soooo, I downloaded the beta2 version. Very slick, nice interface, no page rendering problems that I have seen. Nice feed service. Not enough as yet to convince me to switch. the search bar is rather limited compared to firefox, but no doubt that will

Lismore...what fun.

2006-04-27T15:59:00.000+10:00

What fun .... roller blading for the morning with two 11 yr old boys and 2 8 yr old girls.Lismore is still the same old same old. The shopping centre has been extended and is now rather large(ish). Lots of sales at the moment.Met our new property manager from LJ Hooker. She appears to be proffessional. I was going to say more proffessional than the last manager, Jackie, but I wouldnt call Jackie

Off we go to Brisbane

2006-04-19T08:55:00.000+10:00

Am packing the v70 with 4 bicycles and our gear at the moment.Had to pull one cycle apart because I can only fit three on the bikerack on the back. Brisbane is nice. We will sleep on the floor of an unfurnished unit for a few days, and cycle around the glorious river banks, parks, and entertainment complexes. Will also enjoy the host of great food outlets, museums, and galleries.K has just

Zero Coke

2006-04-18T21:33:00.000+10:00

Whats in coke zero? My wife and i have been pondering that since christmas last. How can a coke have as many calories as a glass of water?Is it safe?The zero coke movement have a remarkably informative website which is well worth the taking the time to check out.Here is a quote.1.) Try choosing water over processed, packaged beverages. It's zero calorie, zero pollution and in developed countries,

Swim results

2006-04-13T14:53:00.000+10:00

Still waiting on final results for the State Championships.FWIWthey are available here Tahl on the blocks during pre race warmups

bloody volvo ...2

2006-04-13T14:51:00.000+10:00

Thanks to the great work done by Banksia Motor Works the engine check light has been put out. It was the faulty fuel relay.the v70 is now running as normal.

back from state

2006-04-12T13:06:00.000+10:00

What a great experience. Tahl swam very well. Not a PB for him, but very well anyway. He placed 26 out of the 40 entrants. Not bad. what really stood out amongst the fast swimmers was the fact that they had year round pools to train in. (Heated indoor, often with a Gymnasium attached.)Can only hope and pray that our town would get one of these, .....but then our Byron Shire Council wont even

2nites the night

2006-04-10T10:23:00.000+10:00

Well we fly out at 5.15 2nite for the state swimming finals. The whole family is making the 900km trip. We dont get much change out of $1000 dollars. Selena is really looking forward to her first plane trip, though she expresses concern about "terrorists". Even in quiet rural Australia, our kids are growing up scared of the terror threat!The weather is looking like we will get a nice smooth

bloody volvo

2006-04-07T14:50:00.000+10:00

got the v70 booked in next wednesday for the fuel relay replacement. The engine warning light (famous) came on. Lucky there is a local guy with a scanner and the v70 software, so he could plug in and determine it was a fuel relay problem.The part is now in stock. Will see how it goes.

3 more sleeps

2006-04-07T11:48:00.000+10:00

Only 3 more sleeps till Tahl goes to Sydney for the State Swimming Finals.Well done Tahl!!Good Luck

New Page...School Help

2006-04-07T10:57:00.000+10:00

Due to popular demand I have put up a school help page so that the children I teach can find the from home the pages that they use at school.Find it here: schoolhelp

the buses will run on time

2006-04-03T11:12:00.000+10:00

Just got a call from an old client, wants to setup a new office system to run his growing bus company. Will need to phone and make an appointment for next few weeks.I think he wants an ongoing support contract.

Coffee

2006-04-03T10:32:00.000+10:00

EeeewwwwMy third day without coffe in the morning. Hard to get started. My mood is not what it could be, the tolerance levels are really low.Hopefully this will cease after a few days and i might start to feel normal again.I'm not the only one it seemshttp://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1113.html

Insurance claim

2006-03-31T13:53:00.000+11:00

Had a call last night from a client complaining that her insurance company would not replace the monitor or printer of her fried computer.She asked me to write a report stating that the supposed lighning strike that fried her machine (very possible) also fried her already old and broken printer, and her still working monitor.Will phone the company I think and discuss it with them. I'm not about

Corruption Prevention and Investigation Unit

2006-03-31T13:45:00.000+11:00

Got a rather rude shock when I opened my new DET mail account for the first time yesterday. A message waiting for me from the relieving manager of the Corruption Prevention and Investigation Unit.My demonstration page of how easy it is to set up a page to extract user names and passwords (with a big red warning sign not to enter real details) did not go un-noticed.Apparently I am now under

New Machine and learning objects

2006-03-30T11:41:00.000+11:00

Scored an intel p4 2600 from a job yesterday. Am reinstalling the OS from the DET disk, and aim to have it setup in 23D by end of week. They have had to go without a machine this year because we have an extra classroom and nobody with a machine is willing to part with it.Also found the DET learning objects repositoryhttps://tstdetwww.det.nsw.edu.au/learningobjects_strict/You will need to login to

Welcome

2006-03-29T10:46:00.000+11:00

Welcome to the first posting from myocum!