OpenIDMonday, 17th March 2008
Punakaiki, a photoset
Punakaiki is famous for its interesting pancake rocks, but we were more excited by our first encounter with a weka, a native bird similar to a kiwi but more common and diurnal so much easier to spot.
Greymouth to Franz Josef, a photoset
We took the bus from Greymouth to the Franz Josef glacier, stopping at a small native wildlife attraction on the way where we saw another kiwi (no photos allowed) and fed some terrifyingly huge eels.
Franz Josef Glacier, a photoset
We took a helicopter up the Franz Josef Glacier for a heli-hike, and spent an enjoyable two hours following our guide ("Moose") as he carved footsteps for us in the ice and led us through ice caves.
A brief introduction to Opacity and RGBA. The CSS opacity property is inherited by an element’s children; opacity set using the new rgba() declaration in CSS 3 differs in that it is not inherited. 
2 am
Firebug + Dijit tips. News to me: Firebug has a magic $1 variable which corresponds to the currently selected node. Very handy. 2:08 am
Lessons from mySociety conversion tracking. Neat trick: show the user a “subscribe” form with their e-mail address pre-filled for them and there’s a much higher chance that they’ll click the button. 
2:12 am
Django on IronPython. Dino Viehland demonstrated Django running on IronPython and SQL Server at PyCon. 4:05 pm
