The view from TG office yesterday

Sunrise over Coogee @ TG HQ

Fri­day was a pretty insane day, but I snapped this photo (cam­er­a­phone, dunno what hap­pened top right!) arriv­ing at our office in the morn­ing before get­ting into it. We’ve got a pretty incred­i­ble view over Coogee, which is fan­tas­tic… except for when the sea and sky are such amaz­ing colours and you know there’s not a chance of actu­ally get­ting out­side to it!

There were some sheets of light rain and these incred­i­ble clouds that cleared off to per­fect skies and an ocean that even I, some­one who doesn’t par­tic­u­larly rate swim­ming and has never learnt to surf despite liv­ing within 5km of the coast his whole life, wished I was free to head over to.

It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
to declare your stead­fast love in the morn­ing,
and your faith­ful­ness by night,
to the music of the lute and the harp,
to the melody of the lyre.
For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

– Psalm 92

We were made to work even before sin entered the world, but I reckon work/time-outside-on-a-beautiful-day bal­ance would’ve been bet­ter then! For those trust Jesus, a future is com­ing where every day all are freed to give thanks to Him for­ever…  even those stuck in beige office towers!

# by Josh Street on August 1st, 2009 Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Outlook 2010: The nightmare continues

As per a post­ing I made to the WSG list ear­lier this afternoon:

We have a prob­lem! Out­look 2010, accord­ing to Cam­paign Mon­i­tor, is going to con­tinue to use the crip­pled MS Word lay­out engine. They adopted this as the sta­tus quo for Out­look 2007 and promptly set rich email with CSS, etc., back a num­ber of years, and are show­ing no great sign of diverg­ing from this path. How­ever, there is hope! Cam­paign Mon­i­tor have started a web­site in con­junc­tion with their “Email Stan­dards Project” — essen­tially a stan­dards advo­cacy web­site. They need your sup­port now more than ever.

FixOutlook.org aims to col­late the community’s dis­con­tent with this deci­sion using Twit­ter to change Microsoft’s pol­icy deci­sion on this one before it’s too late and we’re stuck with yet another five-ten years of infe­rior email authoring!

If you’re a Twit­ter user, it’ll take two sec­onds to retweet and show your support.

Thanks!

Josh

Fix Outlook 2010 website

This is a really impor­tant issue for any­one involved in email mar­ket­ing, and well worth tak­ing the effort to make some noise about. Essen­tially, if we don’t get off this track it’ll be years until it is pos­si­ble to drop sup­port for these infe­rior clients (as is the case with IE6, now) and we’ll all be deal­ing with sub-par mail­ing author­ing, cross-compatibility, and dis­play issues for a while to come.

Get tweet­ing! :)

# by Josh Street on June 24th, 2009 Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
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