Last week Siteroom were the lead story in the business section of Newcastle’s newspaper, ‘The Journal’!
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READ ME! The art of writing headlines
Eye catching and succinct – what makes a great headline? Headlines in ‘the environmentalist’ are the subject of both merriment and frustration here at Consilience. Obviously they have a job to do; getting the reader’s attention and compelling him or her to read on. A headline also has to work with the standfirst (that paragraph above the main body of copy that should give you a two- second digest of the piece plus the authors’ names). Both the headline and …
Monkey for a day
Saturday morning saw me hugging trees. Nothing new there you might think. Only this time I was rather far off the ground. Bearing in mind that I’m scared of heights, this was probably an insane thing to do, but it was a surprise for a friend’s 40th and we were at Go Ape, Matfen Hall. The induction took an hour, but it was really thorough. This is ok I thought – then I had to climb up the first ladder …
Siteroom has launched!
It’s taken longer than we hoped, but finally Siteroom is live! Oh yeah, I better explain what Siteroom is …
Crocs and coral
No computer or internet access for our fortnight in the north, but back in Melbourne now for the last few days of our holiday. We’ve gone from 36 degrees back down to 14 in Melbourne, but the sun has been shining so that helps. It’s been 16 years since I first went to Kakadu in the Northern Territory. Last time I was there it was late October, the end of the dry season and the ‘build up’ to the wet, …
Election deja vu
General election, Labor (sic) loses its majority, the result is a hung parliament, everyone scrabbling around trying to woo the independents, the first Green Party candidate is elected to the lower house – no one is currently governing the country. Sounds familiar? Yep, same thing has happened here. It’s looking like the right wing (‘Liberal’) coalition will be the ones able to make the numbers up, but as yet nothing confirmed. Australia holds its elections on a Saturday as it …
Tasting expensive wine
Yep, plenty of koalas – and also lots of beautiful birds visited us in our treehouse at Wye River – a gorgeous view of the sea through the gum trees – and the lorikeets, parrots, rosellas, kookaburras and cockatoos keeping us company on our deck. We also saw kangaroos, wallabies and emus on our drive through through the Grampians – i bet they were finding it cold, it got down to 5 degrees. We’re leaving the southern Australian winter for …
Slave Domain Server Using Plesk
Plesk-based hosting can often suffer from a resilience problem: failure of the DNS for sites it hosts if the server goes down for any reason. Ideally a zone should have a number of domain name servers located in different places. A zone is basically a domain and all its sub-domains. The zone record tells other servers where to find everything for that domain – where the websites are, the main servers etc. Plesk run on a server or virtual server …
Jetlagged
Am I on Melbourne time? Am I on UK time? No idea, all I know is I’m not getting any sleep. Still it does mean that I can fit lots into my days. We’ve had 4 days in Melbourne following our 27 hour flight (1 hour’s sleep), and although it’s winter, it feels very mild. The sun is incredibly strong, given that it’s the equivalent of the end of January. We’ve visited some museums, including the MCG where we had …
Woo hoo we have a shiny new office sign!
Not a moment too soon, here’s our shiny new brushed aluminium office sign