Archive for January, 2005

Blog Design

Lindsey asks: ‘Are there any web designers out there who specialize in custom design for blogs? Or have you worked with a designer that did great work on your blog and whom you’d recommend? I’m artistically challenged, but really want to do something other than the Typepad defaults.’

anks for the question Lindsey - you sound […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Oak Tree Interview Q8: Highlights of 2004

Today we are featuring questions and answers from an interview that I’ve done this week with Rebecca Monson from Oak Tree Foundation (the recipients of donations that you our wonderful readers will give through this blogathon).
DR: What is the best thing that has happened with OT in the past year?
?RM: The continuing growth of […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

TLD Link Dump V

- (.za) - South Africa - Surf Photos - some amazing shots from the surf
- (.zl) Zambia - Kabwata Baptist Church
- (.tz) - Zanzibar International Film Festival
- (.va) - Vatican city
- (.gy) - Guyana’s Poverty Reduction
- (.nu) - Simon World
- (.tr) - Tourism Directory - Turkey
- (.ca) - CopNet
- (.gh) - University of Ghana
- (.es) […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

TLD Link Dump IV

- (.tc) Turks and Caicos Islands - Turks and Caicos Islands Football Association

- (.to) Tonga - a classic article and photo (left) about an 80 year old Tongan man running for parliament
- < .ro) - My World - Weblog.ro
- (.tz) Tanzania - Anglican Church of Tanzania
- (.ws) - Website.ws
- (.pt) - Ma-Schamba

TLD […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Before and After Images of Aceh Indonesia

Similar to some of the satellite photos in the last post are the ones on this site which show before and after images that are truly frightening.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog

The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog is a blog that I’ve watched ever since the day it first began. They point to a load of good information on the after effects of the Tsunami including some saltellite images from some of the areas impacted (links below). Take a while to look through their archives […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Oak Tree Interview Q7: Partnerships

Today we are featuring questions and answers from an interview that I’ve done this week with Rebecca Monson from Oak Tree Foundation (the recipients of donations that you our wonderful readers will give through this blogathon).
DR: What other organizations does Oak Tree partner with?
RM: The Oaktree pilot project is in the KwaNgolozi valley of […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Canon PowerShot A510

Just added a brand new digital camera on the Digital Photography Blog - Canon have just announced the Canon PowerShot A510.

‘The Canon PowerShot A510 is a new 3.2 megapixel camera with a 4x Optical zoom and 20 shooting modes. It will be in shops in February.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Setting up a Photo Gallery Blog using Moveable Type

Stopdesign has a great tutorial on how to put together a photo gallery blog using Moveable Type. Its a great tutorial, especially because they are Mac people like me. Check out the results of the tutorial - his photo galleries and you’ll see why I’m so excited by the tutorial. Beautifully designed and great photos.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Worst Webpage in Existence

This site is vying for the worst webpage in existence.

It’s pretty close to it although I’d like to see a few more tacky graphics - especially some more animations. Oh and perhaps a musical track - maybe jingle bells in chimes.

Any other suggestions of how we could make it worse? Do you know any that […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Canadian Wilderness

Kel (who has been amazingly supportive - getting up at 3am to be my first commenter today and still up now having been my proof reader, copy writer, researcher, editor all day) just emailed me this amazing picture taken by friends in Canada (Click to enlarge).

Its a pretty different picture to the current one […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Sound Search Engine

Just found this excellent site called FindSounds which is a search engine for sounds! Wow - this could provide hours of fun with the guys.

Right now I’m feeling a bit like this, this, this and this.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005