A New Project

Well, I now have a new project. I have been appointed as an online community development officer for Brimbank Libraries. You may be asking yourself about now "what the f$%k does an 'online community development officer' do?"


First let me point out that I am job sharing this position which Christian who works at Central Services and that it is only temporary for around 6 months.


What this position is responsible for is the research, consultation and development stage of a new website for Brimbank Libraries. What makes this role so exciting is:

a) The website well and truly needs an overhaul, and being in a position to have input into how it should be structured is great.

b) Council has a vision of making the library website more than a static web presence, but more interactive and more of a community portal integrating many of the latest web features such as blogging, wikis, RSS feeds, ect, allowing more 2 way communication between the library and its customers online.

c) Council is looking at building the website on an open source content management system called Joomla. I think the potential of an open source solution is very exciting.

I will be working at Central Services at Sunshine on this position on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays, meaning I will continue to work at Sydenham on Mondays and Thursdays.

Big Brother Rumours

OK, You would think after Big Brother being complete rubbish this year, and not having watched most of the season that I would no longer be interested in Big Brother gossip. However all the changes that they are making for 2008 has caught my attention and will probably mean I will give it a go this year when it returns.





There are a number of rumours on the Behind Big Brother website. These include:

• The return of BB Uncut - which I think would be an obvious idea to try and resuscitate the show


• Having extra BB episodes and shows and more live streaming on the new Ten HD channel.


• Having nominations on Sundays straight after the eviction


• A new house "unlike any other we have seen before"


• Having normal people in the house of all different ages... just not Barbie and Ken dolls under 25.

As well as these 'rumours', the audition process has begun on the official Big Brother website. With prospective housemates required to make a 90 second video stating why they should be in the BB house. These videos will then be posted on the Big Brother website from December for the public to vote for who they want to be a housemate!

It may be a very interesting year that will either make or break big brother... though I must say I am very upset that Gretel has left and been replaced by the egotistical idiot Kyle and his dopey sidekick Jacki-O.

My Computer is Dead

Hey,
My computers hard disk had died, so I can not get onto the net at home to work on my blog... but I am working on a post updating my nice long weekend, which is currently in draft, so I will finish it and put it up on the web soon.

Andrew

Ocean Grove Weekend

This weekend I went down to my grandparents caravan down at Ocean Grove for 5 peaceful days, away from work and home!


Had a wonderful relaxing time and kept very busy.


Basically our itinerary was...



Friday

I had my RDO but Sean still had to work, so I dropped Sean off at work in the morning, returned home and cleaned the house, packed the car ect. Then in the afternoon I picked Sean up from work and we left from there. We stopped at KFC in Geelong for tea, and arrived at the caravan at Ocean Grove around 7ish.



Saturday

Saturday was more of a sight seeing day. We started out by going to Queenscliff and went for a walk along the main street browsing shops and galleries. We then had lunch at the View Grand in Queenscliff.



After Queenscliff we went to Point Lonsdale, Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads, before heading back into Ocean Grove for Dinner at a new little bar called Zebra Crossing, which was very nice. ($12 parmas every night Amanda!).



Sunday

It started raining when we were at Dinner on Saturday night. And it rained, and rained and rained all night and all Sunday morning. We had planned on going to Sorrento on the ferry today, but instead decided to go shopping at Torquay and Geelong. It was a really misserable day. We just had Maccas for lunch, then Smorgy's for dinner, which was really crap.

Monday
On Monday we got up early and caught the MV Queenscliff over to Sorrento for the day. Over there we walked around the shops, had lunch at some little pub that looked a little dodgy, but had really nice food.

We came back in the afternoon and had an ice cream at Queenscliff (you can not go there and not have an ice cream!) then fish 'n' chips for dinner.

Tuesday
We got up extra early Tuesday morning and headed off home by 8am. Just to be lazy so we didn't have to cook we also ended up going to my grandparents for dinner.

Well that was my lazy weekend...