Paul Hagon

  • A Frasier moment

    This morning I lined up to get a couple of tickets to the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming performance of Vivalidi’s Four Seasons.  What I didn’t know was that this morning tickets went on sale for the rugby league grand final.  You could image the dirty looks I got from the people in the line when…

  • Books alive

    The Australian Council for the Arts have just released their annual Books Alive list of 50 books you can’t put down. Books Alive is an initiative to encourage people to read. On their website they have a list of where you can purchase the books, but they haven’t included a list of which libraries stock the…

  • Australian iPhone data plans

    Vodafone, Optus and Telstra have announced their pricing plans for the iPhone here in Australia.  Take a look at a summary of their proposed pricing structures: Price per month Included voice and TXT Included data $19 – Optus $50 100Mb $30 – Optus 3G wireless broadband N/A 1Gb $35 – Vodafone 3G mobile broadband N/A 5Gb…

  • Libraries, museums and del.icio.us

    Today we released an upgrade to Picture Australia. Most of the improvements were behind the scenes improvements involving building the framework for features that will be implemented in a few months.  One feature that was implemented was an “Add to del.icio.us” link.   A “share this” link is nothing new for any news site, blog…

  • Safari CSS text-shadow changes in Leopard 10.5.2

    I’ve just applied the recent Leopard 10.5.2 update to my iMac at work and noticed that there seems to be some CSS rendering issues with Safari when the text-shadow property is applied to text. text-shadow: #000 2px 2px 1px; before the 10.5.2 update: text-shadow: #000 2px 2px 1px; after the 10.5.2 update: Changing the code…