We welcome Noosa Crest, boutique providers of Noosa wedding receptions and honeymoon accommodation to the Noosa Wedding Ring.

In association with Noosa Crest, Noosa Wedding Ring is also offering an exclusive Noosa Villa wedding package to take the stress and worry out of organising a stylish beach wedding on the Sunshine Coast.

Select from a growing range of Sunshine Coast venues for your next holiday or choose a specific Noosa holiday accommodation option from Roamfree.

For a week from April 7, superb Noosa artists Judy and Ian Grieve are holding an exhibition of their latest works inspired by Kakaku National Park scenery.

Visit the Grieves’ studio on Justin Road, Doonan to view their paintings and ceramics.

Sunshine Coast artist, Jon Neilson is holding his latest exhibition at 12A King Street, Cooran from March 31 to April 15. Downstream Art Exposed will be open daily from 10am to 5 pm with the artist in attendance to discuss his work.

For the exhibition, Jon is showing photos from recent world travels, sculptures, abstract paintings and ceramics.

During uninstallation of my AMD Radeon ATI drivers, I forgot to disable AVG until required to do so by the uninstallation procedure. I rebooted and installed the latest 7.2 graphics card drivers and reinstalled AVG. Later on when shutting down I received the annoying error message that DW20.exe failed to initalize as Windows was shutting down.

After digging round on the net and coming across frightening tales of trojans and viruses, I decided to do the logical thing and uninstall AVG, reboot and hey presto, next shutdown the Dr Watson error message had disappeared.

Web developers who stick to the straight and narrow when page building may be likely to be rewarded with the institution of Google local and personalised search facilities.

Gord’s interview with Matt Cutts discusses at length some of the new directions Google is currently taking.

Matt: I wouldn’t say that it’s necessarily the nail in the coffin, but it’s clearly a call to action, where there’s a fork in the road and people can think hard about whether they’re optimizing for users or whether they’re optimizing primarily for search engines. And the sort of people who have been doing “new” SEO, or whatever you want to call it, that’s social media optimization, link bait, things that are interesting to people and attract word of mouth and buzz, those sorts of sites naturally attract visitors, attract repeat visitors, attract back links, attract lots of discussion, those sorts of sites are going to benefit as the world goes forward. At the same time, if you do choose to go to the other fork, towards the black hat side of things, you know you’re going to be working harder and the return is going to be a little less. And so over time, I think, the balance of what to work on does shift toward working for the user, taking these white hat techniques and looking for the sites and changes you can implement that will be to the most benefit to your user.

Dogwashers is a fabulous mobile dog hydrobath service operating in the Ballarat area in Victoria. Dogwashers now sports a brand new web site to promote its dog washing facilities where you can download a first time discount voucher for you and your beloved pet.

After their bath and flea treatment, dogs enjoy a blow dry, doggy treat, breath fresh and cologne.

Looking for something elegant and different for your wedding gown or for a gala function, school formal or debutante ball? Often it’s difficult to find an eye-catching garment that suits your shape and style.

Fairytale Brides and Formal can offer you personalised service and a wonderful variety of contemporary and traditional bridal wear and stunning party dresses for dances and special occasions. Exclusive importers of up-to-the-minute overseas fashion, their new site displays their current range of gowns.

This is becoming a daily habit almost. The new major Wordpress 2.1 version, code-named Ella for Ella Fitzgerald, is now installed with no problems. Next update isn’t due till April 23 thankfully! Regular updates are intimated from now on which will make it better for using Wordpress on client sites.

Over the weekend, I cobbled together another handy javascript method for foiling evil spam bots, whilst making life easy for web developers. The script below enables you to change the subject of the email as you go as well - you could add other variables like a link title too if you wished. Functions are very useful devices!

Firstly, the content of email.js:

function sibaem(subject) {
var username = “emailprefixhere”;
var domain = “whatever.com”;
var atsign = “@”;
var address = username + atsign + domain;
document.write(’<’ + ‘a’ + ‘ ‘ + ‘href=’ + ‘”mailto:’ + address + ‘?Subject=’ + subject + ‘”>’);
}


Save the above as email.js in your scripts folder and link to it in the head of your document like this:

<script src="scripts/email.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then in the body of the document, call the function with the following code where you want an email to appear, for example:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!–
sibaem( “Website enquiry” );
document.write ( ‘email me</a>’ );
//–>
</script><noscript><a href=’contact_form.php’ title=’Complete my contact form’>contact me</a></noscript>

If you wish to make the user changeable and for the email address to be visible to the human eye on your site, here’s the content of email.js:

function sibaem(username, subject) {
var domain = “whatever.com”;
var atsign = “@”;
var address = username + atsign + domain;
document.write(’<’ + ‘a’ + ‘ ‘ + ‘href=’ + ‘”mailto:’ + address + ‘?Subject=’ + subject + ‘”>’ + address + ‘</a>’);
}


and here’s what goes in the body:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!–
sibaem( “youremailusername, Website enquiry” );
//–>
</script><noscript><a href=’contact_form.php’ title=’Complete my contact form’>contact me</a></noscript>

That was quick! another update hot on the heels of the last. Only 6 files changed this time so it took only a few seconds to update. I see the next major version - Wordpress 2.1 - will be out at the end of the month - I need to set a reminder for it.

No sooner than the vulnerabilities are revealed than they are fixed by the Wordpress team. Another upgrade successfully accomplished in record time!

This year, we send our best wishes for prosperity and peace - it’s about time all of us had a bit of a rest from interminable bloodshed over resources, religion and global supremacy. Rather than using reason to develop a logical, secular code of ethical behaviour which considers the best interests of fellow human beings as well as their own, it seems too many humans depend upon crude instincts and irrational brutish faith to justify baseless feelings of cultural superiority and barbaric slaughter of and stealing from other humans.

To celebrate our alternative peaceful vision for enlightenment in 2007, we’ve made a desktop wallpaper featuring Ganesha, a Hindu deity symbolising intellect, wisdom and prosperity.

We’ve also taken the time to add some of our latest artwork and greeting cards to our online art gallery.

Enjoy!

Machinery & Equipment : Buy, Sell & Hire offers a wide range of used and new machines and items for sale and hire used in various industries. Machinery and equipment available for purchase in this online marketplace include welders, dust collectors, plate rolls, drills, forklifts, guillotines and routers.

The online marketplace at machineryequipment.com.au provides an easy facility for people to advertise their new and used machinery for sale and hire. In the near future, the site will also offer buyer registration.

We are currently assisting in the optimisation of this new site in association with YTT Solutions.

Another update to the fine Wordpress software completed! so easy!!