Pat’s Point of View

Was watching some saturday morning telly and caught the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series. It rocks!

Proper cinematic battle scenes between the Republic/Jedi and droid/Sith armies. Proper action from characters such as Mace Windoo and other Jedi who barely fight at all in the movies. That’s what Episode III should have been like.

Maybe George Lucas wasn’t involved? Or maybe there’s more profit to be made from the animated series so they made it better?

Right-o, fire up Limewire and the DVD burner, we’re gonna watch some cartoons!

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My darling Jenny has just launched the new General Pants website. Hope you like Flash :)

You Brits will be pleasantly suprised that it’s not a website selling undies for General Purpose (as opposed to Drinking Pants, Pulling Pants or just plain Lucky Pants), but rather a clothing store for those whacky youngsters who like their jeans hanging around their knees.

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This is where I’m working at the mo, the State Library of NSW…

This is the grand old (well in Australian terms) Mitchell wing.

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Last week I attended the Web Essentials 2005 conference (WE05) in Sydney, and I must say I really enjoyed it.

It impressed and inspired me to see designers, geeks, suits and a whole bunch of other web people coming together in the name of web standards, with a desire and enthusiasm to learn how to do things properly!

I felt good about the industry that I work in, and started genuinely looking forward to the future. Working in ad agencies for the past few years had really eroded that feeling in me. I feel better now.

It was great to hear such entertaining and motivating presentations by people such as Jeffery Veen, Douglas Bowman, Tantek �elik and Molly Holzschlag. I was proud to be a “web designer”…and you don’t often get that! :)

Other great stuff was presented by Eric Meyer, Kelly Goto (finally bought her book) and Derek Featherstone. (Is it just me or are all these guys from the US? hmmm)

I can’t wait to force colleagues and “those that still need to be converted” to listen to the podcasts. So many people working in the web have no idea about or interest in new exciting stuff such as Technorati, Microformats and Flickr.

Anyway, back to the task of getting a job.

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I’d like to start by offering my condolences to the victims and families of yesterday’s terrorist attack in Bali.

This nonense is getting closer to home all the time. I don’t think Australians have comes to terms with the dangers of our modern world. We’re geographically - and in many ways culturally - remote and quite accustomed to be left out and over-looked. As a result I think we as a nation are complacent and lazy. As a community as a whole we rest of the laurels of “the sunburnt country” reputation we have, and often don’t strive for anything more than that.

Maybe it’s just because I’m stilling adjusting to being back, but I get the impression a lot of people here are quite close-minded…or perhaps small-minded is a better term. Not intentionally, but things like terrorist bombings on our doorstep will no doubt smack many people in the face and wake them up to what much of the rest of the world has had to live with for a long time.

A bit heavy for a Sunday morning, I know, but there you go.

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