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Been busy here in computer shop land. Feelin’ a bit like Stretch Armstrong to be honest, but hey, at least I am not bored out of my mind. The trip with Renee to Whyalla was awesome, so good to relax, even though we had a bit of a stressful time when her brother called up about herContinue reading “Sorry for the delay”

’tis Monday yet again, back at work. Listening to the hundrum of the annoying phone next door as the receptionist can’t be stuffed answering the phone, also the air conditioning from the other side freezing both Renee and my bot bot’s off even if it is 35 degrees outside. Well, this weekend (Sunday) past wasContinue reading “Another week goes by…”

When I worked for Channel Nine I had a SGI Octane. Those that know me well, know that I love my SGI machines and the whole SGI culture. Anywayz, I just gotten Irix 6.5.15m loaded on the machine and was in the process of getting all the apps that I like to use installed andContinue reading “God I miss my old SGI machine”

I have a theory, and I wonder if it can be proven. Working as IA, I’ve talked with a lot of people who feel that there are fewer information architects today than there were during the dot com peak. And in terms of visibility outside the field, that perception is quite understandable. Back in 2000Continue reading “Where are all the IA’s in this world gone?”

If we look at a computer complete with operating system, we discover a hierarchy of apparently relatively autonomous languages, beginning with hardware, and working up to the user interface. These might include machine language, assembly language, macroassembly languages, compiled and interpreted languages, scripts, graphic interfaces, and so forth. The fact that I know 16 differentContinue reading “Languages rant”

This script will take a string and explode it into an array. Neato huh? In my project, I had one field in a form where the user would enter several email addresses seperated by semi-colon’s. I wanted to validate that each email address was valid, but first you have to seperate the long string. functionContinue reading “Exploding a string into an array in Javascript.”

Hi, my name is Campbell Douglas Thomas Craig, I am a 40+ year old guy based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. My primary job is to help co-ordinate, manage and assist in the development of eLearning, applications and anything else really that requires multimedia or programming of some sort. I am a child of the Internet.Continue reading “Welcome all.”

I was asked late last week, what my approach was in regards to creating an eLearning course so this is how I answered it. I would sit down with the client and ask a set of questions I have written, this is called Training Needs Assessment/Needs Analysis. One question in particular I ask is, “whatContinue reading “ELearning Approach”