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	<title>Australian Web Designer Ricky Onsman</title>
	<link>http://www.onsman.com</link>
	<description>Website design and development</description>
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		<title>a filter-tipped web?</title>
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Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, wants to &#8220;address the range of issues and challenges faced by families when they are online&#8220;.
He has proposed legislation to &#8220;require all ISPs to block material rated Refused Classification that is hosted on overseas servers&#8220;.
What Senator Conroy has suggested goes well beyond any mechanism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2010/03/a-filter-tipped-web/</link>
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		<title>bookends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of reorganising our home library over the last few days.
By library I mean our total collection of books, rather than a purpose-specific room to house them.
That comes later.
The 2,600+ books we have are in fact spread across our house: living room, office, rumpus room, kitchen and bedrooms.
They have always been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2010/02/bookends/</link>
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		<title>financial education professionals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I now have a handful of web clients who have been with me for five years or more (note to self: should I mark this by issuing a badge?), which is both a very healthy affirmation of the worth of my skills to them and a wonderful opportunity to mould a web presence over time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2010/01/financial-education-professionals-2/</link>
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		<title>rocket surgery made easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Krug is the author of the bestselling book Don&#8217;t Make Me Think!, which has racked up worldwide sales of 250,000 since its publication in 2000.
That book based its approach to assessing and improving the usability of websites on the injunction in the title. If visitors to websites have to figure out what to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2010/01/rocket-surgery-made-easy/</link>
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		<title>kate mcgarrigle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I get older, it&#8217;s inevitable that I witness the passing of my personal heroes.
Some have shocked me, some have perplexed me, all have saddened me. The death of Kate McGarrigle took me by surprise.
She and her sister came to my attention in the early 1980s when I had moved from Hobart to Sydney to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2010/01/kate-mcgarrigle/</link>
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		<title>brad serhan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brad Serhan is a loudspeaker designer.
What he does is marry cutting edge technology with an audio artist&#8217;s aesthetic understanding to create truly superior loudspeakers.
In Brad&#8217;s case, that often involves creating the cutting edge technology required, or at least applying the known in a new way. He&#8217;s without doubt one of the best in Australia, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2009/11/brad-serhan/</link>
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		<title>balmain rovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had a message today from my old mate Sergio, the last of the original Balmain Rovers with whom I formed the team in 1998, to say he has finally retired from All Age football and will be playing Over 35s for West Ryde next season.
For those who like to know these things, Fiorenza S. racked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2009/11/balmain-rovers/</link>
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		<title>web directions south</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my previous post, the Web Directions people advise:
We&#8217;ve now got pretty much all the conference sessions up at the resources section of our site, complete with their podcasts and slides. So, if you&#8217;re looking to catch up on a session you missed out on, take a look below. Further, do feel free to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2009/11/web-directions-south-2/</link>
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		<title>surprise and anticipation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I turned 50.
Thank you very much. As my brother said &#8220;You know the drill, a straight bat, eye on the ball and start again to turn it into a ton&#8221;.
I had expressly and adamantly refused to have a big deal birthday dinner and most especially, definitely NOT a surprise. I quite probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2009/10/surprise-and-anticipation/</link>
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		<title>web directions south</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Web Directions is one of the major stops on the global circuit of web design and development conferences, particularly for those who understand that web standards matter.
It attracts overseas and Australian speakers who actually have something to say: an insight, a perspective, an opinion or a technique they want to share.
With four tracks of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.onsman.com/2009/10/409/</link>
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