LIANZA Conference 2009

The link below will take you to the feedback I wrote on the LIANZA Conference held in Christchurch in October 2009. It was a very informative and thought provoking, especially the keynote address by Sir Tipene O'Regan and his daughter and the presentation by Richard Stallman. Indeed the latter was a bit scary. Click the link and read all the feedback.

Secret url: http://www.slideshare.net/secret/8ma7M8GyDblakX

Green Day at the Vector '09

As some of you know I'm a Green Day fan and went to their concert 18/12/2009. This was an awesome concert, a real party, from the pink rabbit sucking on a bong and drinking a beer to the acoustic solo last song 'Time of your Life', the place rocked. A couple of videos for you courtesy of YOUTUBE. The first link is the opening song '21st Century Breakdown' is from the concert I attended. The second link is to a video made in Berlin three weeks before the NZ concerts and features the acoustic version and final song sung at my concert, 'Time of Your Life'.

Opening Song 21st Century Breakdown

Time of Your Life

Amends

Forgive me for I have failed to Blog. It has been a month since my last post. Why you ask?? I really haven't had a lot to say but feel the need to commit words (at least) to my blog. I could do something interesting I suppose like add a gadget, random thoughts or something?? Spoiled for choice really but choose I must because to do nothing is to loose the skills I've gained. Always had a soft spot for Spock.

Yet another try

Just can't seem to get my links labled.... Figured it out. Was putting extra bits of HTML in the URL accidentally...Daaa!!

Senior Friendly

Senior web writing checklist

Display ideas

Having another try at this labeling of links.

Seniors on the web

My attempt to create links with descriptors rather than a whole lot of html text. The first two named links provide some information about writing for Seniors on the Web. The last link contains ideas for library displays.


Seniors on the web

Checklist when writing senior web pages

Displays ideas

Displays & Bulletin boards

I was having a look see in Flickr for ideas for displays and bulletin boards and came across the following images. Just need to get the imagination into gear.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%22library+displays%22&page=2

Web writing

Having a blog makes it easy to pass on helpful tips. I came across these web sites which look at making web sites senior friendly and thought since our population is aging some of the information might be generally useful.

http://www.nia.nih.gov/NR/rdonlyres/FF9E472A-8363-4EA0-848E-5AFA56502ECE/12338/Sr_Web_tips_forweb_final_032509.pdf

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/checklist.pdf