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It looks like there are a few changes on the way at ACTION in the coming months.
Firstly, I have it on good authority that the timetables will be changed in August, which means drivers will be given new shifts (or more correctly, they will choose new shifts), and a new rostering system will be in place. I’ll address these points in a moment.
Secondly, the word from inside ACTION is that CEO Peter Wallace is resigning, I can’t confirm this, but it certainly seems to be the buzz eminating from ACTION insiders at the moment.
Now, back to the timetables, it was mentioned on a bus enthusiast website a few weeks ago that ACTION are going to change the timetables (Comment by Busnerd, 4th from top) to a new system which will “cut travel times to that of a private car”, a feat which is impossible for many reasons. Anyway, I decided to follow up on the story and was told by ACTION insiders that August is the proposed date for the new timetables, apparently this will also mean a change in rostering to help get drivers onto weekends. It is also possible that Flexibus will be scrapped (about time!), and standard route services will return to nights.
All of this is still well and truly up in the air at this stage, and may turn out to be incorrect if ACTION management change their mind, although from what I’m hearing, it seems pretty definite.
Samuel
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:41pm
On Thursday afternoon at about 5:55 (GMT+11) Optus Satellite Control lost communications with the aging Optus Satellite B1 during routine orbital positional adjustment. This caused ABC relay stations, Macquarie Regional Radioworks stations, Southern Cross Syndication services, and New Zealand’s main Pay TV service, Sky Television, to stop broadcasting, along with a handful of other Australian TV stations.
Apparently Optus B1 is getting a bit long in the tooth, and has had previous failures, including a complete failure of the main guidance system, which means it is now operating on the backup system, it is also being used well in excess of its original specifications. It was supposed to be replaced by the new Optus D1 satellite late last year, but this has been postponed until at least the middle of this year…assuming B1 lasts that long.
Thankfully Optus regained control of B1, but when they did it was broadcasting in the wrong direction, and they had to wait for it to recharge after the northern hemisphere solar exclipse before they could do anything about it. B1 was back online for its users at 7:17am Friday (GMT+11).
I don’t know what 2CC did about it before midnight as I wasn’t listening, but I would like to congratulate them on not giving up and playing automated music, and instead using the 2UE webstream with a panel operator playing local ads and promos. It did sound a bit rough around the edges, but overall they did a fantastic job under the conditions. I gather that a number of other stations around the nation did similar things with panel operators and webstreams, although there were a few who just went into automated music mode, or played a webstream with the streamer’s ads and all.
Also congratulations to the ABC for replacing some of their C1 services with the lost B1 services so that relays could be back on-air by 2am (GMT+11).
For those interested, the good people over at Usenet Aus.Radio.Broadcast have a good summary of what happened, and what affected stations did.
Heres hoping that D1 is up there soon to relieve the aging and slowly failing B1, as the longer B1 is left up there in its semi working state, the more of these outages we are going to experience, and eventually, we might have a complete failure.
Samuel
April 1st, 2006 at 07:51am
If you happen to live in one of Australia’s Daylight Saving time zones, and your computer’s operating system automatically adjusts the time for Daylight Saving, then you will probably find that the clock is out by an hour, as Daylight Saving has been extended by one week this year for the Commonwealth Games.
I nearly thought my lounge room clock was an hour fast when my computer was telling me that it was 2:14AM when it was in fact 3:14AM.
It is worthwhile pointing out that some online services (Gmail being one of them) base the time they show on your computers GMT offset…so you can expect them to be out by an hour as well.
Who would have thought that the land of clocks would be so exciting?
Samuel
March 26th, 2006 at 03:06pm
I’ve got an unconfirmed report from a reliable source here, that the refuellers at Sydney Airport are on strike. It is unlear if this means just some of the refuellers, or all of them…or what the story is, but the bottom line, if this turns out to be true, we could have aeronautical delays and madness on our hands.
Again, this is unconfirmed, but from a reliable source.
Update (10:11PM): Turns out it was true, but by the time I posted it the drama was almost over. According to news.com.au:
The meeting was called this afternoon by staff of Airport Refuelling Service, a Qantas subsidiary.
The workers met for a few hours to discuss their concerns with job security and entitlements.
Flights resumed about 5.30pm (AEDT), a spokesman for Sydney Airport Corporation said.
“It’s all over now,” he said.
He said three flights had been affected but the delays were short.
Samuel
March 23rd, 2006 at 05:27pm
This morning’s sunrise had a rather pretty effect on the clouds. Here it is as seen from my house.
Samuel
March 13th, 2006 at 05:01pm
One of the interesting things about Australia Post is that it is possible to generate statistics based on forms they give you copies of, when you fill them in. This is made possible by the serial numbers applied to the services the forms are used for, being in numerical order.
One such form is the Registered Post form, which gets filled in for every article sent via Registered Post, Australia Post’s insured post. Each Registered Post article is given a unique serial number, known as the “Registered Post Number”, this number is prefixed with the letters “RL” as is issued in numerical order. It is therefore possible to calculate how many Registered Post articles have been sent in a certain period of time based on these numbers.
On a recent check of the filing cabinet I found an old Registered Post form, from the year 2003, I also have two recent registered post forms.
- 3 November, 2003: RL29793824
- 6 March, 2006: RL37594801
- 10 March, 2006: RL37594835
Because I don’t have the exact times of each article being posted, and because having times would make the calculations too messy for quick use, some assumptions need to be made about the times of postage which do, unfortunately, add a small degree of error to the calculations. For the purposes of these calculations we will assume that each article was the last one posted on that day, which means that we need to subtract one item from each calculation to have “full day” figures.
For example, if item 15 was the last item sent on Monday and item 50 was the last item sent on Wednesday, a calculation of “50-15” would be a calculation of one item from Monday, and every item from Tuesday and Wednesday. A calculation of “50-16” would be a calculation of every item posted on Tuesday and Wednesday…this is effectively the same thing as subtracting one item from the “50-15” calculation.
Now that we have the theory behind us, we can perform some calculations:
- From the start of 4 November, 2003 to the end of 6 March, 2006, a timeframe of 854 days, 7,800,976 Registered Post Articles were sent, an average of 9,134.63232 Registered Post articles per day (rounded to five decimal places).
- From the start of 4 November, 2003 to the end of 10 March, 2006, a timeframe of 858 days, 7,801,010 Registered Post Articles were sent, an average of 9,092.08625 Registered Post articles per day (rounded to five decimal places).
- From the start of 7 March, 2006 to the end of 10 March, 2006, a timeframe of 4 days, 33 Registered Post Articles were sent, an average of 8.25000 Registered Post articles per day (rounded to five decimal places).
The last figure does seem somewhat erroneous, and I suppose that it is possible that the numbering system isn’t entirely sequential, perhaps giving specific computers a block of numbers at a time. Regardless, the system is at least mostly sequential, and it would be unwise to expect perfect statistics from an external source anyway. Australia Post undoubtedly would have access to the true figures, and I would be surprised if they differ much from the ones above (with the exception of the last figure).
One interesting statistic from the Australia Post Annual Report for 2004-2005 is the number of items posted, which for the 2003-2004 financial year was 5,307,500,000 and for the 2004-2005 financial year was 5,363,100,000, a total of 10,670,600,000 from the start of 1 July, 2003 to the end of 30 June, 2005, a period of 731 days, which makes an average of 14,597,264.02189 items posted every day (rounded to five decimal places).
If we use that average to estimate the total amount of mail posted from the start of 4 November, 2003 to the end of 10 March, 2006 (a period of 858 days), we can estimate that 12,524,452,531 (rounded to nearest whole number) articles were posted, which makes registered post (a total of 7,801,010 articles for the same period) a mere 0.06229% of Australia Post’s mail.
If one was willing to work out the number of days post offices were open during this period, it would also be possible to work out the average time between postage of each item, and each Registered Post item, sent through Australia Post.
I personally found that quite interesting, I hope you did too.
Samuel
March 13th, 2006 at 11:40am
I was watching Senate Question Time overnight, as I often find it quite amusing the way the various members manage to sidestep questions and provide long convoluted answers to questions which were fairly straight forward. I was most amused by the way almost every question answered by a Liberal senator ended as an attack on the Labor Party.
One question caught my eye (or my ear) in particular, this question (which was one of the planted questions designed to highlight various government “achievements”, and to waste time so that the opposition can’t ask questions) from a Liberal senator to another Libral senator related to the conservation of birds, and the answer was almost entirely an attack on a certain Mark Latham, former leader of the Australian Labor Party.
I have extracted this from the online hansard copy of senate proceedings from yesterday (pages 45-46 of proceedings, pages 59-60 of PDF), but you will need to visualise the standard grandstanding for yourself, as the text doesn’t quite carry the (for lack of a better word) enthusiasm shown by Senator Ian Campbell, and certainly doesn’t include the hysterical laughter from the members of the Senate. I have also made a couple formatting changes to make it easier to read and follow.
Environment: Conservation of Australian Birds
Senator FERRIS (2.48 pm)—My question is to the Minister for Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell. Will the minister inform the Senate how the Howard government is protecting Australia’s rich and varied birdlife for future generations of Australians to enjoy?
Senator IAN CAMPBELL—I thank Senator Ferris for a question that I know is dear to her heart. Over the last 10 years the Australian government has spent over $12 million protecting our unique Australian birds. Only a couple of weeks ago I announced a further $1 million package known as the Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds.
As I do with most of my ministerial briefs, I read carefully through the list of birds that we are seeking to protect—some 36 new species of birds. Some of their names would be familiar to the opposition, like the little curlew, which I noticed on the list. There is the ruddy turnstone and the broad-billed sandpiper. But, when I got to the next one, the name stood out and
leapt off the page at me. It was nothing other than Latham’s snipe!
I asked my staff to research this unique Australian shorebird and found that Latham’s snipe has a very long bill—and I think it is getting longer with the addition of the Nikon digital camera to it. It has large eyes and it is known to dash wildly around and to fly in a zigzagging motion. Its other attributes, we found, were that it establishes its territory in open spaces like meadows and grassy floodplains by repeating nosediving displays. In spite of its showy display during the mating season, the parent birds accompanying the baby birds tend to stay in clustered grass and can thus hardly be observed. More than half of them—all senators would be upset to know—never fully mature because of various accidents.
Latham’s snipe is in fact designated as a rare species. It is also prone to suffer accidents because of the places where it lives. Not only do cows often trample over its nests located in the pasture but, sadly, motor mowers hurt parent Latham’s snipes earnestly sitting on their eggs in grass-harvesting lands.
Recently we have seen references to Latham’s lemmings also, as Senator Ferris knows. We know that for many members of the Australian Labor Party there is that iconic Australian sound of the two-stroke Victa coming across those grassy plains and attacking the lemmings, or the Latham’s snipes. These are people similar to Gavan O’Connor, who is under threat from the lawnmower being driven by Senator Stephen Conroy. Gavan O’Connor talked about the sound of the mower coming into his ears—just as the Latham’s snipe would cringe at that sound—when he said, ‘The talent in the Labor Party is subject to sleazy deals.’
Another Latham lemming or Latham’s snipe, someone who dares to challenge the Beazley orthodoxy, is Warren Snowdon, who said today, as he heard the mower approaching:
‘I think what it demonstrates is a small number of people—standover merchants, thugs and other sleazebags—undermining the good name of the Labor Party.’
Mr Sercombe, another Latham’s snipe attacked by the lawnmowers of the Labor Party—
The PRESIDENT—Minister, I remind you of relevance.
Senator IAN CAMPBELL—Thank you, Mr President. I appreciate the reminder. Bob Sercombe, regarding himself—as a Latham’s snipe, the bird that was the subject of the question, would—said that there were ‘sleazy internal deals’. You can see that the behaviour of the Australian Labor Party is no better and no worse than someone driving a lawnmower over the habitat of a Latham’s snipe.
The PRESIDENT—Minister, resume your seat.
I am amazed that Senator Ian Campbell wasted money by having his staff investigate a bird, purely so that they could write a derogatory answer about Mark Latham, even more amazing is the amount of time (and effectively senator’s salaries) which was allowed to be wasted on this junk. Admittedly the speaker, Senator Calvert did eventually tell Senator Ian Campbell to sit down, but that was after a rather lengthy spiel about nothing of any value. In fact it was 2:52pm when the next question was asked (although the answer provided to it did not address the topic), a whole four minutes after the bird question was originally asked.
Surely, this would have been better served over afternoon tea, rather than in place of valuable senate time and questions.
Samuel
March 2nd, 2006 at 02:19am
It was only a few years ago that I was a student at Campbell High School, and I clearly remember the annual tradition of excursions to the Civic Pool during P.E. classes.
These were organised in an unusual manner, which involved walking to the pool and back from the high school. There was a small level of order to this odd excursion, there were three teachers, one leading the pack, one in the middle and one at the rear attempting to speed up the dawdlers. All students had to cross at the traffic lights on Limestone Avenue outside the high school, walk down a particular side of Coranderrk St to the Constitution Avenue traffic lights, cross at the lights, walk to the pedestrian crossing next to the convention centre and cross over to the swimming pool. This was quite naturally reversed on the way back.
Today on my way into the CIT Reid Campus around 11:30am I spotted one of these drawn out excursion groups, unfortunately there seemed to be much less order to this lot than any time during my high school years. Firstly, there was no visible teacher presence, this could be explained by the general demographic of P.E. teachers being fairly young, and often fresh out of university. Generally they do look a bit older than the students and look mildly authoritative.
Unfortunately there was no such presence in this group and it showed. Road crossings were amazingly disorganised and dangerous. Coranderrk and Ballumbir Streets intersect in a Y shape, with Ballumbir merging with Coranderrk to form a new length of Coranderrk. Naturally, this is where the group decided to cross, seemingly running across the road and dodging cars. If this move was initiated by a leading teacher then I am very concerned about the example they are imparting on their young and impressionable students. Even worse still, no teacher attempted to stop this from happening.
Following this bizarre and dangerous road crossing, many students seemingly disappeared into Glebe Park and the surrounding walkways, and headed in the general direction of Civic. Admittedly a roll call at the pool would have picked up these truants, but it is still unacceptable that this could happen so easily.
It would appear that Campbell High School’s P.E. teachers have forgotten their duty of care, and need to be reminded of school policies in relation to excursions. If an accident had occurred, which it nearly did, the consequences and negative publicity would have made them wake up. None the less, prevention is better than cure, and I will be sending a copy of this article to Campbell High School as a courtesy to allow them to review policies, and take the appropriate action to help ensure the safety of their students.
I’m certain that somebody will now tell me that high school students should be capable of crossing the road safely, and I agree, they should, but peer pressure and general teenage silliness does get in the way of clear judgements from time to time, and it is the job of the supervising teachers to keep this to a minimum.
Whilst Campbell High is my old high school, I am not picking on them simply because I used to go there. In this case I am able to draw on my experiences there and make a comparison, however I would be equally critical of any school that allowed such behaviour.
Samuel
February 24th, 2006 at 03:35pm
It’s John Kerr’s birthday, and I’ll be giving him a call to wish him a happy birthday, if all goes to plan I should the audio shortly. I’m sure plenty of people will be ringing and emailing John for the exact same reason between Midnight and 6am GMT+11 (Sydney time). You can ring John on 13 13 32 (+61 131332 from outside Australia) or email him jkerr@2ue.com
2UE have a webstream of John’s show, and 4BC have it on a one hour delay except for the final hour
Samuel
February 19th, 2006 at 12:00am
As you may recall from this post (I have been referring to previous posts a fair bit recently), 2CC will be running an outside broadcast from the grand opening of Bunnings Belconnen. To my horror I have discovered that this Bunnings store will not feature a cafe and I will have to add “picking up coffee” to my schedule. Either that or taking coffee in a thermos.
My plan for the day is below, but right here I am reproducing the multi-page advertisement that Bunnings took out in The Chronicle (click to enlarge).
Yes, that’s right, Australia’s favourite children’s entertainer (although you don’t have to be a child to enjoy his show), Humphrey B. Bear will be there to entertain all and sundry from 7pm-7:30pm. He will be performing a special show at that time, and I hoping that he will be walking around the store for a little while before that. He probably wouldn’t be great on the radio (he doesn’t speak out loud), but it would be nice to get a photo of him standing next to Mike Frame at the 2CC outside broadcast.
Anyway, Friday for me will involve leaving home at about 8:45am so that I can be slightly early to CIT, find the correct room (J028) and hopefully be there at the commencement time of 9am. As previously stated, this “Introduction to working in your chosen profession” class, assuming that it sticks to its name, will be one of the greatest pieces of irrelevant snoring material ever to be produced by an educational institution…I’ve already worked in my “chosen profession”, why do I need to have it explained to me for five hours?
My theory is, the earlier I get there, the earlier I can get out of there. With any luck there will be a break which includes 11:30am-Midday so that I can enjoy Best Of Laws in its broadcast form.
When the class ends at 2PM, what follows will depend on what happened during the CIT class. If there were no break (they may find me a bit agitated if that is the case), I will need to decide where to have lunch. However, as I suspect that there will be lunch and morning tea breaks, I will make my way to the Civic bus interchange and catch an intertown bus to Belconnen. With any luck, I will be able to catch a nice orange bus, and avoid a horrid green contraption. Due to the fact that I will be pressed for time, I will probably catch the first bus I see. It will probably be around 2:10 or 2:15 when I reach the Civic bus interchange.
One of the many problems with ACTION’s new green buses is the way they interfere with the AM signal, this generally means having to listen to 2CC over strange buzzing and whirring noises.
When I get to Belconnen (approx 2:30), I will enter Westfield Belconnen, walk to the food court, and visit one of the coffee shops I like out that way, pick up a take away coffee, walk out of the shopping centre, onto Benajmin Way and head off in the direction of Belconnen Way, and somehwere up there I will find Bunnings Belconnen. I suppose it will be close to 2:50 when I get there.
I intend on being there for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, after which I will probably head back to Westfield, have another coffee, and head home. Of course, taking coffee with me in a thermos might be a better idea, but I will make that decision on that morning.
Anyway, it should be a good day!
Samuel
February 7th, 2006 at 11:49pm
Today is Australia Day, as it was on this date in 1788 that the first fleet landed at Port Jackson (now Sydney Harbour).
Whilst this is a day of patriotism, ceremonies and celebrations, I do have to wonder about the logic of two things.
Why is the “Australia Day Live” concert held on January 25, the day before Australia Day?
Why is the Australian Of The Year announced the night before Australia Day?
Thankfully I managed to completely avoid the unusual noisefest which is “Australia Day Live”, and will continue to do so for as long as it keeps going.
I am glad though, that Professor Ian Frazer has been named Australian Of The Year for his work in developing a vaccine for cervical cancer.
Whilst I consider myself to be patriotic, I don’t really have a huge amount of interest in Australia Day or the related activities. Sure, it is nice to know that today marks the date when Australia was first settled, but it is mildly disturbing that it is also a celebration of the arrival of convicted criminals, the killing of people who already inhabited the country, and mass drunkeness on the part of the officials.
I love this country, I love its democratic principles and the “fair go” attitude, but I don’t think January 26, 1788 is the most prestigious day in our history. If it weren’t for New Years Day, I would suggest January 1 as our national day, as a celebration of federation, January 1, 1901.
I suppose the question now is, what will I be doing today? Well, I will be doing much the same as I do most days. Today is just another standard day for me, and I will take Nattie for a couple walks, possibly buy some groceries, and probably install Linux on a computer.
For some reason that reminds me that voting for the Australian Blog Awards ends shortly (although at least one website is reporting that voting has already closed), and the winners will be known soon. I will keep an eye on this and congratulate the winners. If I win an award I will be declining it. I do hope that none of you voted for me, as I have absolutely no desire to win those awards, and fail to see the importance of them.
Samuel
January 26th, 2006 at 12:56am
I received an interesting email from the National Library of Australia today, in it they requested permission to archive Samuel’s Blog in the PANDORA Archive, “a growing collection of Australian online publications, established initially by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations.”
Whilst there is a section in PANDORA for blogs, there doesn’t appear to be a selection criteria for them, as far as I can tell the closest match is “personal sites”, which states:
Personal sites will usually only be selected if they provide information of outstanding research value unavailable elsewhere or if they are of exceptional quality or particular interest.
I must say that I am honoured by this request, and look forward to providing a resource for the future. PANDORA entries are maintained by the National Library Of Australia for future generations, which means that Samuel’s Blog will remain available to the public regardless of whether this site remains in existence or is made obsolete by changes in technology. PANDORA entries are also added to the National Library’s catalogue and the National Bibliographic Database (a database of catalogue records shared by over 1,100 Australian libraries).
The entire site will be archived on an annual basis, and will be made available through the PANDORA website. This includes all articles, photos, audio, video, and even Samuel’s Persiflage.
Needless to say I am excited about this, and have granted the National Library permission to archive.
Just in case you were wondering, PANDORA is an acronym for “Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia”.
If you are reading this in the year 2050 or some other far flung future year, welcome! I hope you find this useful in some way, I am proud to be part of documented Australian history. I wonder what I’ll be doing in 2050 (I’ll be 63 years old…will I still be running this site?).
Samuel
January 18th, 2006 at 07:49pm
The long awaited book on the history and people of Australian radio, Don’t Touch That Dial, Hits ‘n’ Memories Of Australian Radio, has been released and is available exclusively through www.waynemac.com.
The best way to explain the book is to use the words of Wayne Mac:
Don’t Touch That Dial chronicles Australian radio from the days when teenagers were first seduced by the new sounds of Top 40 pop and DJs in the late 1950s.
It takes you on a journey where radio went from strength to strength on AM, then FM, introducing music, news, personalities, commentators and colourful characters several of whom became household names.
In Don’t Touch That Dial Wayne Mac takes account of an entertainment phenomenon which has touched the lives of generations of Australians.
A celebration of radio and its people in words and pictures.
The book format is A4 hard cover, 400 pages.
The foreword is written by legendary radio presenter Bob Rogers, in which he writes about Wayne
Wayne Mac was a keen young radio listener in the ’60s, who turned his passion for radio listening into a successful career as an announcer and program director in the ’70s and ’80s. Documenting this era of our radio history is long overdue. Wayne’s commitment to this task, through several years of meticulous research, has resulted in an authoritative and entertaining read. Few stones are left unturned. I have even been reminded of a few things about me, which I’d forgotten and I had a few laughs along the way.
The book is sorted into sections and chapters:
- PART ONE:
- 1. ‘From Wireless to Radio’…an introduction to the very early days
- 2. ‘A New Hit to Happen’…the Top 40 era begins
- 3. ‘Stacks of Wax and Platter Chatter’…introducing Australia’s pioneering Disc Jockeys
- 4. ‘The ’60s: and the Beat Goes On’…the next generation of DJs and new sounds in pop music
- 5. ‘A Bright Good Morning to You’…the sound of breakfast and morning shows
- 6. ‘Hello, You’re on the Air’…talkback radio begins
- 7. ‘Now a Word From Our Sponsor’…the business end of radio
- 8. ‘Goin’ Up the Country’…how did country radio compare with the city?
- 9. ‘Have You Heard the News?’…the establishment and role of radio news
- 10. ‘The Music Goes Round My Head’…the origins of music format styles and positioning
- 11. ‘Sound of the ’70s’…greater sophistication of format radio through audience segmentation
- 12. ‘Something Special’…the era of producing radio specials and ‘event’ programming
- 13. ‘Jingle Jangle’…the production of advertising, promo and station identification jingles
- 14. ‘Cunning Stunts’…a Top 10 of station promotions and publicity stunts…and then some!
- 15. ‘FM Arrives’…finally!
- 16. ‘The Power in Radio’…the radio hierarchy. Who called the shots?
- 17. ‘The Changing Tune of the ’80s’…New formats, music, technology and new players
- PART TWO:
- Frequently Asked Questions
- The Stations: the Players
- POSTSCRIPT:
Wayne has put an awful lot of work, time and dedication into this book, and it shows. Don’t Touch That Dial is a quality book in a limited print run. It is expected that it will increase in value in the years to come.
If you would like more information about Wayne’s book, head on over to his website at www.waynemac.com, and keep your ear on the radio as Wayne will be interviewed countless times in the coming weeks.
I’ve ordered my copy!
Samuel
(Quotes and image © Wayne Mac 2006)
January 18th, 2006 at 01:57am
Due to popular demand, I have taken a photo of a photo which was seen in another photo.
There were a few requests for the photo seen in the background of this photo:
So, here it is:
To answer some questions about the photo, the lady is a family friend who is affectionately known as my nanny, the man is her late husband. I don’t know where the photo was taken.
Unfortunately the photo was never particularly clear in the first place.
Samuel
January 9th, 2006 at 02:05pm
Bus Australia, the Australian bus enthusiast website, encompassing the Australian Transport Discussion Board, have launched a new look website, which is much easier to navigate, and easier to look at than the old site.
Major improvements include:
- An updated version of the photo gallery, unfortunately some of the old photos were not imported and they remain in the old photo gallery.
- The entire website now contains one universal header, which makes the site look more consistent, and allows people to navigate to any part of the site from any page, something which was previously only possible from the home page.
- The website is now maintained with the open source CMS software, Joomla, a code fork of Mambo. Incidentally, whilst 2GB don’t publicise it, their website is powered by Mambo.
Overall, the new Bus Australia website is looking pretty good, and I look forward to the further improvements they have planned.
Samuel
January 3rd, 2006 at 03:39pm
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