Sydney Turns out the Lights for “Earth Hour”
Saturday, March 31st, 2007 Posted in Climate Change, Current Affairs, Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia | 3 Comments »Tonight, at 7:30pm Sydney will turn out the lights... "Earth Hour" has been deemed to be 7:30 this evening. Everyone in Sydney (known as Sydneysiders) has been encouraged to turn out their lights for an hour between half past seven and ...
Working in Sydney
Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in General, Linda's Travels, Traveling Australia | No Comments »I have been temping for a cable engineers company for the last two weeks. Although I'm in accounts and it's unbearably quiet, there are perks. Typical Aussies -we get a beer at 4:30pm today (this happens every week) and since ...
Rob’s French Translator
Sunday, March 25th, 2007 Posted in WordPress Plugins | 1 Comment »Because a couple of people have asked for it, I've made a new French Translator plugin, which uses the Google Translation engine to translate blogs written in French to English or German. This is very much a beta version, as I've ...
WordPress Plugin info - Robs Translator
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in WordPress Plugins | 1 Comment »Currently, the Robs Translator plugin does not work correctly with IE 6 or 7. I am aware of this! I have been trying to solve these issues today, though I may have to resort to javascript to get MSIE to ...
Kirribilli Running Club, Sydney
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in General, Linda's Travels, Traveling Australia | No Comments »I've just started work as a temp at Kordia in St Leonards. There I met another temp called Lucy (she does the A-K work, I do the L-Z). She met a guy on the ferry who organises Kirribilli Running Club ...
Rob & Linda Scale Mount Buffalo, Victoria, Australia (and catch some fish)
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 Posted in Rob's Travels, Traveling Australia | 2 Comments »Here is the first of the promised travel stories about our trip over to Canberra, through the Alpine and Kusciuszko National Parks of Australia. We set off from Melbourne and headed through the gravel and burnt out bits to Jamieson, the ...
Name changed to full: Rob Scott - celebrating Rob Scotts the world over
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in General, Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Soapbox, Rob's Travels, THAT's Funny! | 2 Comments »As I mentioned in my earlier post, I'm waiting for a phone call, and I don't know if it will be the house phone or the mobile. For this reason, I can't even go outside, and am now beginning to ...
Is University a Cop-Out?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Soapbox | 1 Comment »Actually, as those of you who have been to university will know, a good article or essay is incomplete, and entirely unworthy of merit, unless the title contains at least one colon. So, here is the alternative title: University: a busted flush? Without ...
WordPress Plugin - Robs Translator - English to 10 languages!
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in WordPress Plugins | 23 Comments »I've created my first WordPress plugin! The Robs Translator plug-in allows your blog viewers to translate your blog from English to one of 10 languages! Languages currently supported are: German French Italian Spanish Korean Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Simplified) Potugese Japanese Russian Share This
More cartoons
Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in Rob's Pulpit, Rob's Soapbox, THAT's Funny! | No Comments »I found some more cartoons today so I'm putting them up here. All of the following come from the free David Hicks site Fair Go For David... Couldn't have said it better... I think they say all that is required on ...