So the new format of the Times is quite good, It's small enough that it can be mailed to you from nice people and also that you can lose it on the kitchen table and have a panic attack.
It is not as much of a shock as I thought it would be there still seems to be loads of content and unlike some local papers here it has original content - Huzzah.
Seeing as this worked so well, I hear that the 100 pound note is much bigger than the 100 dollar note. I could compare them if someone were to send me a wad of unmarked non-sequential notes *cough, cough*.
Christmas is very close, buggery, at least that means GT4 will be out soon and I'll be able to buy it - Huzzah Huzzah

If there were anymore ads on australian television they could do away with the silly interrupting programs. It must be getting close to 50 50 adverts content - BASTARDS

Everyone should have blogs, ok so not everyone, everyone I know should. It's a pisser not know what people are up to. Even if it's just the mindless crap that I blog. I'm getting to the point where i may well start ringing people when I want to know what they are up to. *cough* now while I do already do this - I may start doing it when I'm sober and therefore remember what they say.
Also this will mean that it will be early when I call, mwa mwa mwa ha ha ha ha.

Hmm our next door neighbour is smoking a clove ciggie, god they smell good.

while I'm more of a Guardian person, I used to read the Times, and I'm not sure if I'm happy with the change in format. *cough* someone could send me a copy * cough,cough* so I could see for myself * cough cough*
Christ the end of the broadsheet, what next ? Baaaaaaa no happy no happy at all.

Went to gold class on saturday and saw the new Tom Cruise movie, erm Collateral, good movie. There is a new version of Adium out. It is wonderful yummy interface, . Just when you thought that an app was pretty much where it was going it seems to get better, huzzah. If you're using an Apple and aren't using Adium for Im you're mad, not bad for a bunch of duck perverts :D

Downside to developing with laptops - they are small enough to throw round the room when you get pissed off with them. No I have yet, got close tho. Baaaaaaaa yams yams are the future I tell you.

Meant to have been 37 today, thats about 10 degrees to much. Although it does mean we have started on Pimms, not really sure if that is a good idea or not.

Laptops rock, blogginb from bed, yes I'm sad, I'm also comfortable.

Hmmm so Howard got in, no great surprise there, more of a surprise will be finding someone who voted for him, almost like finding an English person who voted for Thatcher. Howard getting in doesn't scare me that much, I think it was probably the best thing for the country, while Latham would have been an interesting experiement, not sure I would have wanted to be here.
Something that scares the crap out of me it the distinct possiblity that Bush will return for another term, god help us if that happens, or should that be god help everyone in the non western world.

How much does this rock, the Virgin Galatic site doesn't have any start dates though :( and Branson thinks there are only 3000 people who would be interested, hoping he doesn't mean "Rich Enough" :|.
Ekk Ok it's 100,000 pounds some people read the articles :D. Well its a lot but not _THAT_ much :S.

A fun but witless use of google.

I was going to blog about how good my phone is, but I've just read someone else's review so go and read it
here. The battery life on my replacement phone is amazing, I'm now getting 4 days out of one charge, yes very very low use :(.

I Almost have my powerbook sorted as well, everything is good.

Ok a quick note we are back from our holiday to Port Douglas, I got my phone replaced while I was away and the new one seems to work, and I am writing this on my new powerbook. wahoo wahoo I finally got one. Righto more of an update later when I have time.
Hmmmmmm this is so nice to use.

Got a new phone, its a Nokia 7610. So far it's been a bit of adjusting I've always had series 40 phones , series 60 are a little different. The only thing I'm currently worried about is battery life seems crap , I've had to charge it twice since monday ( its Friday ). Anyway it looks cool and has a 1 megapixel camera.

Great Headline. We've been busy, that's why I'm slack and not blogging enough. Saw Pretty dirty things on the weekend, brilliant. Also saw King Arthur on Thursday at Gold Class Greater Union, movie: action - great, dialog - kinda shite. Think it's worth paying the extra money, only 40 seats, means there are only 38 other people that can piss you off, seats recline and they bring you food and drinks.
So apart from that work is going well and I've almost decided which #$%& laptop to buy.

A guy at work introduced me to bash.org today, wasn't a very productive day :D.

Emma has been back for a week, is brown and had a wonderful time, has loads of cool photos.
On a geek note, I've moved to using Mandrake and Window Maker at work, it's early days yet. Well I guess its early day yet, seeing as it all got set up today :D. However I still think it's the only desktop to have a chance against OS X. Oooooooooo and it's Stephs birthday today, happy birthday Steph.
Hmmm if anyone has suggestions for a PC Laptop, give me a shout, I need to be able to develop on it, so sort of a desktop replacement that is very lite. Money is sort of no option - if I like it enough.

Minister responds "Hmmm tastes just like tuna".

Ok this has been sitting round for ages waiting for me to finish it and its never going to happen so here are some random thoughts.


* David over for the weekend

* Firebird / Fire Fox - Thunderbird
Movement of Applications from huge to small and lovely Outlook / Mozilla / IE to Firefox , thunderbird and gmail.

* Eclipse 3.0 M9., has built in ssh key generation and amazing cvs integration and everything runs in the background. Oh yes.

Ok just updated a few things on blogger, it asked me for my date of birth. I had to enter the month first,baaaaaaaaaaaaaa after getting language and location right they drop it when it comes to dates. If anybody can explain why oh why ANYONE would put the month first , baaaaaaaaaaa. OOooo OOOo lets put the MIDDLE bit of information first, then the first second and we will leave the last bit of information last.

Hmmm in addition to this, I've just enabled blogger commenting - I'm leaving it on because I'm lazy, but I looks pants.

Wanna know what the weather is like in Sydney ? Have a look here.

Finally finished the 3rd Raymond Chandler book in The Big Sleep book, bloody amazing.
Also the final milestone for Eclipse 3.0 is out. Looks brilliant and the now have code folding wahoo wahoo. We may start using it at work, Intellij 4 has to many issues, such as synchronization times with the file system, and hanging for no apparent reason.
Went to a British Council thing on Friday for the Sydney Writers Festival to hear Alexei Sayle, Louis de Bernières and Adrian Mitchell. I think I got more from Louis de Bernières and Adrian Mitchell than Alexei Sayle, who seems pretty much as you would expect. The British Council put on an amazing evening at a cool venue looking over Sydney harbor.
Some how managed to end up at Harry Café De Wheels for a pie at the end of the night, bloody long queue, good pies though.

Considering all that is going on in the world you would think people would learn the difference between say shite and shiite or even shi'ite , which Emma tells me is the correct way.

The new version of blogger is soooooooooooooo nice, not what I'm here for though. Check out this slashdot post about people in Barcelona getting RFID chips so they don't have to carry credit cards all the information is in the chip. Woooo bring it on.

Emmas book is out!

I've been using FitNesse at work for a few things. Anyway I was looking round for a way of implementing something in a better way and found a supporting site by one old of my university lectures, cool.

Bloody hell it's been a while since I blogged I keep thinking about it, must not being getting round to it.
So what the hell is up with toilet paper and tissues ? Loo paper is scented and tissues are not, does this not seem just odd to anyone else ?
I've signed up with a google mail account to see what its like, so no mail, although I have only had it 2 minutes :D.

Finished the Big Sleep, brilliant. We had a good easter - went to a National Park north of sydney on friday with Zoe and Vinnie, amazing weather, lovely park and another great BBQ by Vinnie. Then for a change we went round to theres for a BBQ that night :D. Saturday Emma and I went to the Easter show, not bad, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to many people and most of the were REALLY REALLY hick, like called cleetus hick. The other two days we lay round the house eating. I did a small easter egg hunt for Emma which she thought was silly, but still wandered round the house to find :D.
Ahhh and I'm blogging from bed with Emmas laptop, it's been nice, I've been reading and Emma has been surfing round for a new camera.

Simon, has just reminded me via I’m that I was going to keep up to date with what I was reading. I finished “The man who ate everything”, it was good if you’re into food, hmm probably if you’re not as well. I found it to be gonzo journalism like - a la PJ
O’Rourke- replacing the sex, drugs and politics with food (NO this doesn’t detract from the over all enjoyment of the book ) .
I’ve started reading “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler which is fucking brilliant, although it takes a few pages to get used to the fact it isn’t a cliché, that it’s the real thing. Amazing to read, it’s talking too long,only reading an hour or so every few nights, baa.

If this doesn't make sense I'll look it tomorrow.

Looks like the Intellij Vs Eclipse decision has been made for me and we are going to use Intellij I must admit its one of the more pleasant decisions that has been made in a work environment that I haven’t agreed with 100%. Then again I wasn’t sure which I wanted to use and while I prefer Eclipse ( Its CVS integration is about 901234812390480291348 years ahead of Intellij) I think Intellij is going to be the right decision for our team so huzzah.
On the non geek front, I’ve started buying music again, so the RIAA can relax. I started off with the usual small Jono select of music, Chet Baker, Eric B & Rakim, Verve Unmixed and ColdPlay – A Rush of blood to the head. The ColdPlay CD is fucking amazing very refreshing; Eric B & Rakim is good although there is still an elusive remix CD of Paid in full I keep on missing. The Other two CDs I have no idea about yet :D.

Geek Stuff, I'm currently looking at Intellij 4 and Eclipse 3 M8. Both seem a bit unstable with standard memory, eclipse seems to have sorted itself out with an increase in max heap size, and I think this will sort Intellij as well. I've always been in the eclipse camp but now I have the chance to choose. I'm unimpressed with the cvs integration in Intellij is pants and the new cvs integration in version of 3 of eclipse is wonderful it backgrounds itself while doing large jobs so you can get on with whatever.
On the down side eclipse wont compile code whose package structure doesn't match the directory stucture. Now while this sounds good in theory I'm working with god knows how many other develops scattered all over the place who all do things a little differently soooooooooo it would be nice for the #@$%#@$% code to compile - its also no part of the Java Spec, so why not just make it an option Eclipse dudes. *Cough* if anyone does know how to make this work under eclipse please tell me.

New Job is going well, been having fun and enjoying the last of summer over the last few weekends, will attempt to blog more. Only 20 more sleeps till the start of the MotoGP season wooooooooooo, only 20 more sleeps till the fun and games of figuring out how to make time to watch the races boooooooooo. Yes I've changed this yes i did get taken on an aprils fools joke baaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Ash just sent me this , class.

Ahhhhhh joy, looks like I will be able to get the Guardian again, dunno why this has taken so long, after looking at the demo it would appear someone has figured out how to export from Quark to Pdf, Huzzah.

Hmmmm Thirteen Days tonight and On the Beach lastnight, bring on the happy films, woooooooooo. Jesus, bad movie combination.

Hmmmmm I upgraded browsers from Mozilla Firebird 0.7 to Firefox 0.8, a version increment and a name change, and well it sucks. the browser has gone from a zip to a windows installer and from working to not. Firefox _Never_ fully loads a page and seems to have a great deal of trouble with finding small sites like the bbc, baaaaaaa.

In a desperate attempt to keep track of what I have read, here is the following: I've just finished the Philip Pullman Trilogy His Dark Materials, rating 4/5 to 5/5, better than Harry Potter, hmmm also a little different, the only thing I would say is the last book seems to drag a bit.
And I'm just about to start Jeffrey Steingarten the man who ate everything, so erm I have no idea what its like :D.

Hey Hey, it's Grey Tuesday.

Good weekend, we drove north to Patonga and camped at a really beautiful, but very noisy site on the water. On Saturday we went on a guided kayak tour with Southern Adventures, we did a half day trip, which was four hours, which turned out to be a good length – we were both buggered by the end of it. Well worth it, loads of fun.
After that we drove further up the coast to Port Stephens and stayed at a place called Koloa Shores, much quieter, but not as nice, much more into making money, I think the cabins would be good.
Sunday we went on a dolphin cruise, with Moon Shadow, managed to see a couple of pods of dolphins and had a relaxed wander round the bay. The cool thing was seeing a couple of hammerheads just below the surface.
After the cruise we drove home via some huge sand dune - Stockton beach then through the Hunter valley, beautiful and filled with vineyards.

Saw the Fishers this morning for a quick coffee, amazing how far some people will go for a cup of Joe :D. Richard sent me this, two things : one - Kuro5hin is still round I thought it had gone under and two, Microsoft have comments like anyone else.

Just got back from Return of the King, fan-fucking-tastic.
Who else thinks Pippin and Merry are the Ant and Dec of Middle Earth ? - Also this just in - 70% of ppl can't tell which is which.

SmileyFaceMasterMind or SFMM

Or another way to waste your time - We all know the rules to Master Mind :

black pip for right colour, wrong hole

white pip for right colour right hole

maybe no pip for wrong colour, wrong hole.

Ok so I’m not 100 % on the rules – we won’t let that stand in our way. Replace white, black and missing with :), :| and :( and the colours with other smiley faces of your choice.
The only bit I’m not 100% on how to stop the erm master not cheating the mind – by lying about what 4 faces they had choosen.
Right I’m glad I shared that with you.

We have just had the most amazing storm go over the top of us, pretty much continual lightening - most cool.

Wow, I'm becoming really slack at this. Ummm I was in New Zealand for a week about a week ago, was good to catch up with a few people and have a look round. Need a chance to spend a few weeks at home.
Went to Many on Saturday had a cool day snorkeling and then boozing with Zoe and Vinney. Then on Sunday went on the zig zag railway with Emma and then caught up with Zoe and Vinney again and we drove round the Blue Mountains.
Watched Bend it like Beckham last night top film can't believe I haven't seen it sooner – very cool. Also watched the league of shite pants gentleman - needless to say it wasn’t as good as I thought. There should be a law against Sean Connery working in bad movies. Oh and Neela has just sent me this which makes this and this much more understandable. Much like Guinness, good things come to those who wait.

Hmmm first the beagle and now rover, maybe we shouldn't be sending mans best friend to mars, also I wonder if all the people who took the piss out of beagle are going to take said piss out of rover.

So how stupid are you?

I dunno cartoons can be too close to the truth.

I'm sorry but this is fucked, if you are unable to fly in one countries airspace shouldn't everyone ground/ban you ?.

Jesus people will really write any shite they want. I thought papers had editors to check they weren’t publishing complete crap – apparently not.