I often tell my clients that is it inadvisable to use obscure fonts on their websites (except of course in graphic files). I came across a great example of what websites can look like to someone who hasn't got got that particular font installed on their system. I have nearly one thousand fonts on my Mac but not 'shruti'!

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I have finally received my letter from Google  with my pin number authorising me be on maps.google.com . So if you type in 'web design, Ballina, Australia' you may see me there on the map. Google is a mythical legend in my distorted perception of reality so it's great to have a letter from them. I'm stoked :)

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Hello, as you can see I'm updating this rather frequently. Yes, anyway I just saw this Google Adwords Ad on my Gmail. I t must have seen the word 'Spam' and decided to try and sell me some.

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I read about Joost in Time Magazine. It's very exciting really - as big as the change from black and white tv to colour! Well, it could be anyway. Basically it's a revolutionary breakthrough in video streaming technology that enables anyone with a broadband connection to watch full screen tv. As a video editor and web designer / developer it's big news. Not to mention the fact that here in this far off colony we don't have any sci-fi at on tv! Joost could easly handle 50,000 channels (according to Time) - one of the currently available channels is a sci-fi. I Googled Joost upon reading the Time article and filled in the form to become a beta tester. Two weeks later I've been accepted. Now they've given me the authority to invite everyone else. So contact me if you want an invite.

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I've been playing around with this MAMP this for a while now, just for the hell of it as I couldn't see much use for it - for me anyway. Basically it's an application that installs a virtual server on a Mac, with Apache, Php etc - just like a real server. So it's really easy for us 'designer' types to install all those open source apps like Joomla, Wordpress etc - to test them out. I recently found out that it's not really so hard to move Joomla and Wordpress from one server to another. So I built this new Digiflip site on my local Mac. Normally I would have had to buy a temporary domain and space on a live server to test it. Now I've just discovered that with a few simple steps in my router admin I can make my testing server accessible by anyone with an interweb* connection! Check out MAMP here *I spell like that sometimes cos it's silly :) - Jeremy Clarkson said it

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