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Photos, stories, and news from Graham Miln.
Melbourne's Festival Season Begins
Melbourne’s city festival season has begun. This weekend saw the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival overlap with the Thai Culture Festival. Next weekend the Greek Festival begins, the Formula 1 crowds descend on the city, and the Jazz Festival coming soon. With all these events going on, it is difficult to resist a walk around the city centre with camera in hand.
Waterskiing on the Yarra River
This afternoon Megan and I visited Melbourne’s annual Moomba Festival. Yesterday’s storm made the Yarra river’s banks muddy and slippery, but did not appear to reduce the crowds.
Photos from the day after Melbourne's hail storm
Twenty-four hours after the hail storm, Melbourne appears mostly unaffected by yesterday’s spectacular weather. The signs of yesterday’s flash flooding in the city centre are minimal
Hail storm in Melbourne caught on film
This afternoon an unexpected hail storm hit Melbourne. Megan and I were lucky enough to be inside at the time. I grabbed the camera and we joined others in the building’s lobby to watch the storm build.
Property hunting in Lyon, Web::Scraper, and tbody tags
I found one stumbling block that took a while to overcome. After a little trial and error, I discovered the FireFox browser returned misleading XPaths for objects embedded in tables.
Japanese Summer Dance (Bon Odori)
This afternoon we visited Melbourne’s Docklands to see the Japanese Summer Festival 2010 (メルボルン夏祭り2010開催). I had fun capturing and editing together some of the summer dance performance.
A better source of SSL certificates
Thus, I was delighted to find StartSSL’s offerings. The prices are good and the service has been great.
Chinese New Year - 2010 Year of the Tiger
Today saw the Chinese New Year celebrated in Melbourne. Megan and I found ourselves in the crowds watching the performers and doing our best to keep out of the exploding fire cracker debris.
Happy Australia Day
26th January is Australia Day; Australia’s national day. Megan and I spent the day out and about exploring various events around the city. We stumbled upon entertainers and entertainment in most of the city parks we visited.
New Year's Eve 2009/2010 Fireworks Over Melbourne
Megan and I ventured out to Docklands, Melbourne, Australia, for the New Year’s Eve fireworks.