National Museum of Australia: yawn

Today I visited the new National Museum of Australia. I found it a little under-done. There is no doubt the external architecture is impressive; but the content is limited in range and appeal. If you ever get the chance, you must visit the New Zealand National Museum in Wellington: Te Papa. It is an impressive testament to the New Zealand people that their museum is packed with information, relics and learning that we Aussies are missing.

Radio Userland

Starting to spend some time with Radio Userland, a desktop based blogging tool. Having been out of the Userland Frontier loop for a couple of years, its taking time to catch up with the latest goings-on. The aim is to see if I can move to a locally based engine – or create some sort of backend on this server.

Acrobat 5.0

Spent today working with the collaboration features of Acrobat 5.0. What you can do is have a PDF shared between two computers through a web browser. Each reviewer can post sticky notes (or other annotations) to a central server and share the comments; live online. Using the coolness of WebDAV and Apache

Javascript, again

“Javascript is calling me” – with the new version of Acrobat 5.0 and GoLive 5.0 Javascript is calling me – look out for more stuff in coming weeks. I find programming like basket weaving for the mind. A good centering tool – a very zen thing.