Alexandra Graham

Those who know me will agree that I like anything that goes fast, so it’s no suprise that every year I can be found at the Red Bull Air Race. This year I thought I’d try out the video feature of my digital camera, and here’s the result. Not too bad for my first video, especially considering the subject matter is moving in excess of 300km/h!

Here is Nicolas Ivanoff of France on his first run through qualifying on Saturday, November 1 2008 at the Perth Red Bull Air Race. The video is taken from the Grandstand viewing area on the South Perth foreshore.

As Website Manager for the Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) I spend a lot of time moderating and maintaining the Port 80 community forums, powered by vBulletin. The vBulletin system is a powerful one, offering a host of features and options, many of which are easily overlooked. In order to get a handle on the system and hopefully, run a more efficient and valuable forum I turned to Building Forums with vBulletin – A practical guide to the web’s favorite discussion system by Adrian and Kathie Kingsley-Hughes. Continue Reading »

I’m a bit slow off the mark (blame workload), but A List Apart are once again running their The Survey for People Who Make Websites. Now in its second year, the survery seeks to find out about web workers around the world. So, if you work with the web, in any way, head on over to A List Apart and take the survey yourself. You even get this funky badge!

Today, or in the case of Australia, tomorrow is D-Day for Firefox 3, it’s the day that Firefox 3 will be available officially for download by the masses. To commemorate the release the marketing team at Mozilla have devised a plan to get themselves into the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest number of downloads in a 24 hour period with Firefox Download Day.

All you have to do is go to the Spread Firefox website and pledge your commitment to download Firefox 3 during the 24 hour period to take part. Then, all that is required is that you actually download the software during that time-frame and you’ll be a part of (hopefully) a Guinness World Record.

Some people have issues with the fact that Mozilla haven’t taken into account other timezones with their plan but I feel this is more a case of logistics than ignoring everybody outside the Americas due to the record attempt, it needs to be a single 24-hour period and considering the US is their biggest market it would unwise to exclude them for the benefit of other smaller markets.

For those of you aren’t sure when 10am San Francisco time is in Australia, here are the start times:

• West: 1am (Wednesday 18th)
• Central: 2:30am (Wednesday 18th)
• East: 3am (Wednesday 18th)

You can also follow it all on Twitter.

I came across Wordle through a post on Bloggy Hell by Myles Eftos and thought it looked like a bit of fun. The image below is a composite of all the words used in the summaries of the posts on this website. Judging by the big words I post a lot about the web industry!

Why not try it yourself on your blog? Just go to wordle.net and paste the content of your blog into the box. A few seconds later you’ll have a lovely visual representation of your blog’s content. Enjoy!

My Wordle