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Canon G Series

Ozgreg — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:51:34 +0000

Unfortunately my much beloved Canon G6 died on our honeymoon, although it could be repaired, it would have silly to spend any more money on a camera that is now showing it’s age, so thanks to a friend of mine I managed to get my hands on the brand new Canon G9 at staff pricing (thus making it cheaper to buy the brand new G9 rather than repair the old G6 which is pretty sad statement over now it is no longer economic to repair, instead we just throw out and replace.)

Although I would love a Canon 40D, the bulk of a camera does not lend it’s self to bushwalking, so this makes for my third Canon G series camera and I have high hopes this camera will live up to the rest of the G series, which is constantly reviewed as the best of the point and click camera’s on the market.

Going to Wordcamp in Melbourne

Ozgreg — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:01:07 +0000

Wordpress had a Wordcamp in Melbourne on Saturday and considering I live in Melbourne I thought I would rock over and have a chance to meet other Wordpress Users..

After jumping on the train, (running late again, thanks Connex) and been forced to walk the long away around the Southern Cross Station due to construction I finally managed to turn up just in time to the Watermark Bar – Pavillion the Wordcamp event location.

Some of the hightlights for me..

Hats off to James Farmer for organising this event, btw the bar next door was a GREAT touch )
Some really interesting insights into what makes Wordpress.com tick by Alex Shiels and how automatic manage to run the huge volume of blogs on Wordpress MU using off the shelf hardware.
Tags, how to get them confused with categories (ok that was not really what Christine Davis presented but I am still a little confused what in the heck is the difference between tags and categories)
Sandbox, a very neat Wordpress theming idea on how to fully tweak your Wordpress Theme just in css… Nice presentation, Alister Cameron, how’s that XTHML compliance on your site going?
Meeting two of the automatic developers, I never knew automatic had developers in Australia.
Drinks (How could I forget them)..

Thanks again James for your work in organising this event..

WPG2 Turns 3.0

Ozgreg — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:10:00 +0000

I’m thrilled to announce that Version 3.0 of WPG2 has been released. This release includes some pretty major changes, ranging from Gallery2 Output as a Wordpress Page (Yay No more wp-gallery2.php file) to Lightbox, widgets, resized and a whole host of improvement.

So go to Wordpress Extend and update now.