Human

Blenheim
Monday, February 8, 2010 - 01:06

Today I got up at 5:30 AM to head to one of the great wine regions of New Zealand: Marlborough. It was all a bit rushed, but I did have a nice time and tasted some great wines. The view was also delicious:

Marlborough wine region

Marlborough wine region

I've got notes on wines and things, but I'll save that for when I'm feeling a little bit less hungry and tired.

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A is for Arthur's Pass and Ashfords
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 05:13

I'm seriously about to give up on blogging my photos. Tonight's blog post has been eaten TWICE because of these two pictures:

The Traditionals

The money shot

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More Humanity

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Cupcakes on December 1, 2009
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Tech

Three challenges of rapid social change
Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 15:34

In 2008 anthropologist Dawn Nafus delivered a short talk at OSCON on rapid social change and how the tech industry can jump ahead and be the leader in this industry. While I see action by the environmentalists to use more open source tech, I don't see a lot of action within the open source community to look at environmental problems. Am I not looking hard enough?

Here are three challenges Dawn identified:

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New theming workshops
Monday, January 18, 2010 - 16:09

Over and over again the Drupal community has lamented the lack of workshops for designers and very novice themers. Based on feedback from designers and novice themers I am offering two new online workshops. They start next week and are designed to fit your busy schedule and small training budgets. They will teach you the skills you really need to know to succeed in theming Drupal:

  • Design to Theme in Five In this workshop you will learn how to convert graphic files to completed themes. Perfect for designers who've yet to create their first theme, and those who are looking for best practices and a few more tips. An understanding of HTML and CSS is required; no PHP experience necessary.
  • PHP for Designers By the end of this online course participants will be using PHP and creating Drupal-specific functions to customize their themes.
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More Technology

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What I really want on October 6, 2009
Taking the fear out of building a Web site on September 18, 2009
Haven't I Seen You Before? on August 16, 2009
Expanded Wireframes on August 10, 2009
Bazaar Personas on August 6, 2009
Version Control Web sites on August 5, 2009