I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
Come along to St Matthias tonight at 5pm for a free BBQ followed by Carols from 6pm to celebrate what Christmas is all about!
If you’re coming and are thoroughly lost or whatever, gimme a call on 0425 808 469 and we’ll send out a search party or something :P
I’ve fallen in love with PDF all over again. Well… not quite. But it’s pretty cool.
| I think it was Steve I was speaking to a few days back, and he alluded to Acrobat’s slide transition capabilities, of which I knew nothing. Until I installed OpenOffice.org 2.0 on a machine I’m using for playback tomorrow and discovered that I couldn’t get it to fullscreen on a secondary monitor (and for various reasons I’m not willing to make my playback screen the primary monitor : | ). So I figured that maybe Acrobat would. |
Pull up the PDF export dialogue… oh, an option to save transitions, cool (I didn’t use it, but it’s nice to know it’s there). More importantly, there’s now a lossless compression option in OpenOffice’s export! Off to Acrobat Reader to open it up, and… yes. All still there, great quality, and it will fullscreen on whatever display you have the window on. Beautiful.
Not strictly my dog, but still… heh. He’s a geek. Heh.
Addendum: I know it’s a crap photo. I accidentally took it with the flash on (for some arbitary reason I’d been using it the night before and had forgotten to turn it back off like I normally have it), and the dog moved before I could take a good second photo. No, it wasn’t posed.
Far out. I didn’t realise how cheap these things were: Voice over IP has nothing on calling cards.
I just called Tori in HK for about 30 minutes and it’s like… ~1.5c/minute. That’s 45c, which is nearly as cheap as a local call from a payphone here in Australia. Sure, there’s the cost of a local call to connect to the calling card service — let’s say ~20c, but still… wow. The cheapest VoIP rates here for the same service are still like 5c/minute or thereabouts.
Good stuff!
Also good stuff is the reason I was calling (well, at least part of)… Tori was in the SMH for getting Band 6 in every unit (along with Louis Garrick and Angus Thompson from SACS)!