Archive for the 'Online' Category

I’ve done some software upgrades and added a heap of new features to my ZooBeat Forums, including a new integrated photo gallery, plus RSS feeds of zoo news from a variety of sources.

If you enjoy zoos, or are interested in animal conservation, have a look at ZooBeat :: The News on Zoos.

I’ve put together a new theme and layout for my blog.

I hope to include more photos from my rather sizable collection (over 14,000 at last count), in my Photo Gallery and also here in my blog.

My father writes three blogs:

• Trevor’s Birding is a blog about his life-long passion for bird watching (birding)
• Trevor’s Travels is a blog about his trips and holidays
• Trevor Hampel is a blog about his other passion for writing

The birding and travel blogs have a lot of photos in them – more of which can be seen in Dad’s area of our Photo Gallery

I’ve recently updated the layout and design of all three blogs … there’s still a bit of work to be done, but I’m pretty happy with how the new layout works. The photos look great too.

My mother writes a blog: Mallee Native Plants … which I set up and host for her.

I recently updated the design of the blog to give it a more unique feel (it was originally based on my own blog template, so looked a lot like mine).

I stole some of my mother’s photos out of the Photo Gallery and made a montage across the top of the page, which I think looks quite good. Apparently mum likes it too, but she wants to change some of the flowers in the photo – I just randomly chose some that I thought looked good … but she wants it a bit more themed – that’s not a problem, was pretty easy to put it together.

I’m happy with how it turned out … hopefully it’s a bit cleaner and easier to navigate.

I really like what my mum is doing with the blog … half the stuff she writes I don’t understand (it’s full of plant jargon and scientific names for species), but then, she says the same thing about my blogs – full of technical jargon she doesn’t understand. Still, a lot of it is quite interesting, and I’m starting to understand a bit more about what my mum does out in her nursery all day! The photos are great too – very colourful.

Got this email today:

This email is to inform you that your ADSL service … will be migrated to an Internode DSLAM port starting on 14/09/2006.

That is fantastic … I’ve been waiting nearly 2 years for ADSL2+

It will be interesting to see how fast my connection is … I’m less than 1km from the exchange I believe. I’d be happy with anything over 16Mbps.

Life is wonderful.

Thankyou Internode