RTA: Damned if you do, etc.

Dear RTA, I know you just spent a lot of money find­ing out exactly how unpop­u­lar you are — now I’m telling you why. This one’s on the house.

Think of this as an (il)logic puz­zle. Want to renew? Go get a green slip. Got a greenslip? Go get another safety check. Want to just give us money and do the oth­ers out of order? Nope, sorry, you can’t do that.

N/A in the Safety Check col­umn actu­ally means “you’re cov­ered for now, don’t sweat it” — but you wouldn’t know it from the form. There’s a vicious red X if you’re not cov­ered, but nary a tick if you are. Also, what’s with the grotesquely antialiased “i” rollovers?

# by Josh on May 31st, 2011 Tags: , , , , , ,
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Darwin Convention Centre vs Google Maps

I’m head­ing up to Dar­win next month to an edu­ca­tion con­fer­ence we’re spon­sor­ing and I stum­bled across some­thing vastly amus­ing when research­ing the event.

Darwin Convention Centre on Google Maps

Here’s some­thing that prob­a­bly falls out­side the bounds of what you’d think to run due dili­gence on: check­ing the venue an event is being hosted in has com­pleted con­struc­tion and is actu­ally oper­a­tional! Thank­fully, the Dar­win Con­ven­tion Cen­tre does, and Google is just a few months behind on the imaging.

Darwin Convention Centre opening fireworks

It opened on July 1st and is part of a broader rein­vig­o­ra­tion mas­ter plan for Darwin’s water­front precinct. If you’ll be in Dar­win between Sep­tem­ber 26 – 28 this year, check out the ACEL con­fer­ence “Tip­ping Points” or get in touch.

# by Josh on August 23rd, 2009 Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
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WordPress 2.5.1 sucks

Functionality-crippling flick­er­ing post but­tons that force me to dis­able JS, overly-adventurous self-updating plugins/upgrades that don’t work, and gen­eral slow­ness. File under “do-not-use” and “haz­ardous to blogging”.

Textpat­tern? Blue­trait? D-I-Y Django (with me and what time, exactly)?

I really want Word­Press to work, if only because I know it can work so beau­ti­fully. Give me tag­ging and plu­g­ins and themes and flat pages and life is beau­ti­ful. Not that I’ve really had time to use any of those fea­tures in WP the last… ooh, I don’t even know… 18 months? But it’s impor­tant to know that they’re there.

# by Josh on May 1st, 2008 Tags: , , , , ,
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