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New browsers bring new challenges and the reliable Perfect Pop-up script from Ian Lloyd seems to have met it's day.
Firefox and Opera still play nicely however Safari 4 and Webkit ignore it completely while Chromium finds it impossible to render the popup window size.

For larger image views I've gone with the Lightbox plugin for b2evolution, especially after finding a lighter, less gloomy overlay image.
Any alternative suggestions are welcomed.

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iPhone snap of a Caddy at our local shops.

There is another browser, but it's too busy playing silly games for me to bother digging the Win box out of the garage.

Update: [17th June 09] Today's edition of the Chronicle was delivered in a sealed wrapper. Lets hope this persists.

Canberra's sole newspaper, The Canberra Times, distributes a give away called the Chronicle. They are responsible for gross urban littering on a regular basis.

They pay distribution walkers to deliver unbound Cronicles into every letterbox.
Letterboxes are made for letters, not folded loose sheet newspapers.

With the slightest breeze, these papers are blown from one end of the street to the other.

A couple of points...
1. If anyone paid good money to advertise in these throw aways, they just blew their money on our street.
2. If I caused this degree of littering I would be charged on the spot.

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The Chronicle byline is Where Your Community Unfolds... over and over and over again.

My email to the powers that be at the Chronicle...

Subject: The Chronicle and Canberra Times Litter Canberra
I have contacted your paper before on the issue of Chronic(al) littering and got one edition delivered wrapped in a rubber band and one shrink wrapped.
But now your back to your negligent littering ways, showing scant regard for civic pride in a town where you have a monopoly. [...]
I invite you to respond to my post on this issue... http://wow-factor.com/index.php/the-canberra-times-litters-canberra ( apologies for the low quality phone camera photos, your lucky day. )
and look forward to your solution to your problem in my neighbourhood.

With the Canberra forecast at -2c for tomorrow, I miss our old town in Queensland.
Not only is the weather warmer but they think differently up there.

Money worries so town prints its own

They are going to print their own money.

The Baroon Dollar - named after Lake Baroon near Maleny - will be printed and sold at local, independent businesses to encourage locals and visitors to keep buying up locally.

Good luck to Baroon Dollar, I hope the scheme works.

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ABC News: Giulio Saggin, file photo