Author: Carly (Admin)

I have been getting back to nature recently and expanding my gardern. I started with planting some strawberry, carrot and cucumbers on Sunday afternoon. I then planted sunflowers, dwarf sunflowers, butter beans and rockmelon on Monday. Then the left over bean seeds on tuesday since I had run out of seedling pots.

Yesterday I was really excited when I noticed some small sprouts. Today I was even more astonished to find some of the sunflowers had really sprouted and the cucumbers have leaves. One of the rockmelon seeds has sprouted. The rest are still thinking about it.

I also decided yesterday that it was time to do a bit more work on my own website. The blog software (word press – I highly recommend it) has made my job of posting news a lot easier so I thought I would try out some photo galleries. At the moment I am working with PhpWebGallery. At the moment I am finding it interesting. It deals with files a lot differently then the other galleries I looked at for the guild wars blitzers website. Instead of uploading images through a backend form, you upload them to the site (including your own made thumbnails) and run a feature in the backend to match them up with the database. At first I found this odd but I like it at the moment. My current photo page (very lacking in content) has the thumbnails as interesting cropped pieces of the picture and I have decided I like the fact that I can easily use my own thumbnails. There is also a thumbnail generating feature in the backend but they don’t suggest you use it unless required. I would not recommend this for a group of people who want to upload photos to the site, but it does seem to fit what is required for myself to manage the photos. If you are looking at a group site gallery then I suggest coppermine. It has the ability to connect to a phpBB forum along with other php applications.

The gallery now lives at http://fun.koali.com.au/gallery
I will be customising it to look like the website and making a few alterations. My first plans is to make the front displayed image for a category randomised and also to add a description column for a photo.

Yesterday was my work christmas party. We went out to sirromet winery for a tour and lunch. After lunch some went for some wine tasting and a few of us decided to play bocce.

When we got back to work we discovered that Qantm college had their industry night so we decided to go for a sticky beak. It brought back memories of our own 3 years ago and I realised that we were industry people now and it was enjoyable to talk to the students and give them advice and encouragement.

A few days ago I noticd that the macromedia site now demonstrated the Adobe logo. This means that the aquisition has finally gone through. You can also now purchase merged packs of the products. At the moment they are just the adobe packages with flash but I will be interested to see what products they put in the upcoming video package.

Below are some of the photos from the plane up from canberra as promised. Click on the images to see bigger versions.

I am back from my canberra trip. Will post some photos and more of a decription soon hopefully.

The little basil pot and some of the extra seeds that I placed in other pots have sprouted today. The pot was part of my birthday present from Andrew’s parents. It is really exciting to see things grow.