Ventriloquist flatulence - ability to throw your farts. It turned out it was just Anna's phone in a different room, but still - the idea is interesting.

Just watched Across The Great Divide, it made me think about how little I got into local music while I was in the UK. It was a mistake, local music everywhere is good and should be embraced.

I've just looked through the photos from the Madgex party photos and a couple of things struck me.

• I can keep in touch with my friends who are geographically disparate.
• I've never given a lot of credence with the sociology and other humanity studies that have been going on into how technology is advancing at a rate greater than we can adopt it. Until tonight, when looking through the photos, I was struck by the idea that Jane had put them on flickr for the local Brightonians and the medium used to tell them about it also allowed me to "listen in". The thought of listening in made me wonder if I should be looking through the photos, if it was some how an invasion of my friends personal space.
  
• No matter how connected you are with people digitally, nothing counts for physical time.
  

This all brought me to the following conclusions:

• Technology is reducing the distance between people, but it isn't quite there. It misses some of the intimacies and that I guess exacerbates the distance, not being able to talk to people or see them dulls them, seeing and hearing them just out of reach is some times harder.
• How does the speed of adoption allow people to understand and fully comprehend what they are immersing themselves in?
• Being along way away from friend is still pants
• The party looked good.
• Seeing happy people you know is a wonderful feeling.
  

I'm hanging out for some screen shots of Sublime Text, sounds like a cool idea.

Looks as though we may we finally get good bars in Sydney, read here.

I just bumped into a guy from school, how cool.

Really don't understand people who don't want to live forever, or at least for the very long term. Different perspectivies I guess.

On a different note, my song of the moment is 32-20 Blues a very strong second is Come On in My Kitchen, from the same album.

Getting well back into blues and jazz.

So regicide isn't the killing of Reggie ?

Moose milk.

Hmmm google maps have lost there Satellite view for the entire world from Australian IP addressed, one would assume this is due to APEC and terrorist being A) so disorganized so as to not already have there maps ( because the CBD moves so much b) already be in Australia.

Then again, it could just be that google has lost all satellite image data for the entire world for people from AU IPs.

Google earth works, although one would assume it is cached data.

gah gah GAH HCF has to be the worst website I've had to use in a while, payment only works in IE and the morons don't understand * required means. I've just filled in a form for notification that didn't * all required fields, Possibly because depending on the information depended on what was required, but I'm thinking javascript would get ya round that, seeing as you have destroyed the usability of the rest of your site with it, why not finish the job.

honestly you should be able to charge people for wasting your time with websites that don't work.


GAH

I'm back from Blighty, have given notice at Travelocity, left and am now working for Spiral Arm full time. All rather exciting. I'm also spending far to much time pissing about with twitter and Linked In. I have several things to blog about including new toys and a couple of weddings, I'll also attempt to get my photos sorted and onto flickr.
Sorry no links, I'm sure you can all work them out if you are interested.

If you think I'm slack and not saying what I'm doing, check twitter.

Is cupcakes a euphemism for breasts ?

Made it here safe, 26 hours is far to long on a plane, at least in cattle class.
Have made it to several pubs and pints and real ale and pub food.

Also found out about sea gulling, my life is now richer.

Where the bloody hell are ya - You too can move to a Australia as a doctor.

Auckland is between two and three degrees warmer than Sydney today, that is just so wrong.

I've had a really annoying cough of late, keeping me up most of last night. So today I went to the chemist and got cough medicine, which may have the unfortunate side of effect of acting as a laxative.

Is it me or if this doesn't work 100 percent am I in trouble?

Cayne was over for the weekend, was great to introduce him to Anna and catch up after what must be two or more years.

Went to Live earth on Saturday, the queues for the beer were a joke - so no booze, the queue for food was an hour so didn't eat a lot. Crowded House were an excellent end to a great but bloody freezing day.

The muppets below us have a console and like to play it loudly, I can't tell you the joy this brings me.

I'm so chuffed, just brought "The Kick Inside" downloaded in maybe a few minutes - felt like less.
Huge kick of nostalgia, it was one of Steph's albums, sort of assume it still is. Weird how things link together. From the album I can see our old house, the record cabinet, the record player. Dads loverly AR4s ( Mum, I still want my speakers back), from there to Christmas and sitting on the couch, I think I always used to sit next to the record player. Hmm, after more than 30 years, I really don't think much has changed (different people worry about food ) , we live in different places, Lisa is still a nazi for getting everyone together for presents, dad still deals, everyone is still happy.

I was going to look up lots of clever links to everything, but, I can't be arsed.

I am hoping I'm wrong but I foresee Carbon trading|offsetting and the rest of the carbon ideas falling from favour when people realise that offsetting does little more than mask the problem.
Carbon initiatives will be seen as a huge mistake in the future as smoke and mirrors.
Anyway here is hoping I'm wrong.

I'm out of my flat, I've given notice and apart from getting it cleaned and moving a few bills around I'm free.

One thing left to go, in the big life stuff.

It's not the fact that most of the paper comes from feeds that pisses me off, it's the fact that the articles that are written by smh journalist are constantly wrong.
How hard is it to count ?

Okay the UK keynote got Q & A - and it was really good.

Watching the London keynote and it reminded me of a thought I'd have earlier in the day - Google has become Sun, open sourcing | releasing technologies - for the same reason, just with a broader audiences. Possibly it is the son(sorry bad pun)| daughter of Sun - Sun build and delivered TCP/IP* and other lower parts of the stack - Google has built on them and built | building a new layer of tools and building blocks.

Overall very good, if not bloody cold - believe it or not a converted locomotive building is piss cold in the winter. Anyway it did mean it was hard to fall asleep.
I'll look through my notes properly tomorrow and add some more comments.
One thing that I didn't know and looks rather cool is Google gadgets are meant to *just* work as Dashboard Widgets.

I'm somewhat interested to see if I can get gears to let dashboard widgets work off line, I can think of a few apps /widgets that would benefit.




http://googledeveloperday2007-au.blogspot.com/

Can you have an umbrella mapplet that will let you have several nested mapplets ( google thinks so ).

What about dynamically creating mapplets, I suppose this doesn't make sense.

Gears looks like a great idea, already think I can see several uses for it. However I need to read how the security works, how do you stop other sites accessing your data ? Also how do you stop malice sites filling the local store with rubbish data, are there size limits imposed on a url or can I download an HD DVD as required offline content.

Things to think about.
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This is one of the most usable sites I've been to in a long time - not the nicest site to have to visit - but you can't win them all.

I've said sorry to Melvin Bragg for pausing his pod cast to talk to someone before.

What is the song Charlie about ?

It's from the Dizrythmia Album by Split Enz.

Wikipedia has forsaken me or at least it didn't know the answer.

I really need to start blogging this stuff when I think of it. I brought a 50mm lens while I was in SFO, err I was in SFO for JavaOne.

Anyway back to the point I brought a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 and it has been wonderful - I'd forgotten that shutter speeds faster than 500 ms existed.

I think the lens may if anything let in too much light :|

It's loverly, have a look on flickr ( Also pictures of SFO and the Moo party ) there are some pictures of Gordon's Bay Anna and I took the day I got back.

How good was the China MotoGP, just finished watching it - hoping the rest of the season is that good.

It would be nice if the other Ducati and Yamaha were up the front as well, but it was nice to see Hopkins up there in a solid 3rd place - bring on France tomorrow.

My only dislike of watching the MotoGP is wondering what is going to happen - will my connect last, will it bomb out, will the audio get out of sync with the video.

It would be nice if you could book dedicated blocks of bandwidth - Sunday night from 22:00 for 3 hours. Shit I'd even pay, I mean I know I've signed up for a 24 Mbps connection and I only want 1/24th of that guaranteed for 3 hours - but still I'd pay.

Oh god, someone on the news has just said " how much content do we really need "
this is to do with science classes.
None, just put them in front of fox news I'm sure they'll learn everything they need. For fucks sake in another generation people wont be able to shit for themselves.

Blair out, Brown in.
Chirac out, Sarkozy in.
Bush out, who in ?
Howard out - October elections apparently.
Helen Clark - We'll find out next year, not really that important in the grand scheme of things, much like Australia. However France and England will be interesting to watch over the upcoming months and years.
Sarkozy wasn't my preferred choice, however having read a brilliant article in economist I'm interested to see how he goes. France is in desperate need or reform and it will be painful.
Brown could be the best thing for Britain in a long while, but will need to move outside of the Iraq Halo and hope there are still people interested in values and not media created spin.
Bush out, please got not Hilary, then again the next leader of the US will not be a president, they will be the first. The first black or the first woman president.
Howard - Rudd is looking better and has managed not the implode, it will be interesting to see how it pans out.
New Zealand is to far out and god only knows if they have moved forward enough to have a credible opposition.

watched Departed and Little Miss Sunshine over the weekend. Both were great, I'd recommend either. Although I'm still not one for cringing movies, which little Ms Sunshine is a bit.

wow, we have had 150 mls of rain here ( Randwick ) in the last 48 hours.

Plasma Pong is amazing, great eye candy and very addictive.

Anyone want a subscription to motogp.com, I've paid for a high def package - 100 Euros, can I use it, no, do they respond to emails no, out of 3 races and 3 qualifiers how many have a been able to watch ?
1 high dev race ( no qualifying - even at 200 K it was unwatchable )
1 high dev qualifier ( yesterday )

Today I can't even log into the site, so 30 minutes into a 45 minute race I'm sitting here trying not to throw my laptop across the room.

The ONLY thing I get for my hundred Euros over a random punter rocking up to the site is the live coverage and interviews with the riders. I am NOT paying 100 fucking Euros for no tech support nor for rider fucking interviews that every other bike website covers as quick or sometimes quicker.

So I'm off to find the race on television.

Why hasn't google brought Encyclopaedia Britannica ?

Geek
no-www
microformats
Not
Small Fortunes: Microcredit And The Future Of Poverty

We have Mac's at our local bottle shops. How wonderful, you can not go passed a great New Zealand beer like Mac's.
Currently drinking a Sassy Red, very yummy.

Desktop Tower Defense - group moose.

this is enough to make you cry.

I think my Spectrum is still at mum and dads somewhere, ahhh Jet Pac, Escape and of course defender. I have no idea how many hours I spent typing games from the the weekly mag into that thing.

Spectrum widget for the mac, read about it here, get it here

Okay I have been trying to put this off for a while. I'm now use to the resolution of my mac and its time to consider a move to a 30.

1Kg of jellybeans in 4 days cannot be good for you :|

Managed to finish A Brave New World, wonderful book, highly recommend everyone reads it, I throughly enjoyed it.

Starting White Teeth next, I really am several years behind everyone in terms of reading material.

This game is great, kind of disturbing but fun. My high score is 1799.96.

Ecofoot, I suck - we need 2.9 planets if everyone acts like me. So the rest of you need to walk everywhere and not eat or buy anything.
Thank you.

So, like there is Java and .Net and there are Jedi and Sith. There is the good and virtuous, all knowing and there is the evil, arrogant know it alls.

So like are there a bunch of Jedi and Sith running round just doing the job, not really caring about the whole good - evil bit of it. More interested in the most efficient way of getting craft out of swamps and carving people in two with a sabre.

A bit random, a bit geeky.

Adobe release pdf. Erm I'm not sure how I save everything as pdf, but I'm sure it is good news.

Drugs and Spiders.

Assuming I forgot to mention, I brought Holly Throsby's Under the Town, a bit of a random itunes purchase after downloading a free song. It's a sporadic listen, although whenever I put it on I can't remember why I don't listen to it more often.

Incremental - going mad bit by bit.

Alcohol is a friend who starts out as a caring friend and about 3 am turns into a 6 foot 8 skin head who kicks the crap out of you.

Apple is coming to sydney, about time.

Since buying a car I've started listening to the radio again.
In an attempt to find a replacement for bfm I've been bouncing round the dial a little and I've found fbi and 2ser.
Both are great, as a substitute for the sunday jazz show, it turns out there is a wounder show on the ABC Classic FM on both days of the weekend - huzzah!

Adium version 1.0 has been released and amazingly it looks even more polished, which is just insane.

Take a highly polished thing, that you can't polish anymore, then, well polish it more, wonderful.

We went to Lost and Found Orchestra, well bloody ages ago. We both really liked it, I was somewhat unsure about it, but it was wonderful.

I brought Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion, 2nd Edition on Richard's recommendation. Have only had a quick flick at it but is looking like a great buy.

On the Richard book front, I finished Penny Arcade Volume 2: Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings! a present that turned up over Christmas, a great book.

I love Tycho and Gabe, I don't have anywhere near enough time to play games now - not because I'm all busy with work and to old for life, but because I'm disorganized.
Anyway, the book was great, interesting to see how there style has changed since 2001 and some of the thoughts behind the comics.

cool.

I've brought a car.
It's a very boring Holden Astra.
It's my first vehicle in over 8 years and first car in god knows how long - It's also the first car I've ever brought new and the first automatic I've ever brought.
I can also run it on ethanol, which is wonderful. If I run low on booze I can siphon the car or equally i can run it on vodka if I can get to a gas station.

We have been using Bill Granger's new book Everyday, well pretty much everyday for the last two weeks, its great.

It lovely and the recipes, so far, have been piss easy. My only concern is that Bill seems to be everywhere at the moment and I wonder if there will be a backlash against him, it would be a shame, his books are wonderful.

If you don't have it, you really should buy it.

Elephunk by the Black Eyed Peas, its pretty lack luster - this is why you can't resell electronically brought music.
Then again maybe it will get better with some more listening.

Greatest Hits Vol. 1 by Dragon, its downloading now so not really sure, it has the song I want so one would assume I'm going to enjoy it.

Watched Kenny last night, not at all what I expected, bloody good though and lots and lots of poo humour - excellent. - abc review.

How cool is this.

Well I've started reading again, we'll see how long it lasts this time before there is yet another pile of half finish books next to the bed and an ever growing collection of new books on the floor.

I've just finish Nick Hornby's The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, I liked it. Not least of all because he says and does things I do and agree with, such as, buying more books than you will every get round to reading and not reading books because they are literary, but because you enjoy them - nothing wrong with a bit of Dan Brown every now and then.

I've started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley on the plane home from Queensland. It was only an hour so not a lot of reading, rather a lot skipped though as the introduction seems to give an overview of the entire story.

So new year, had a few thoughts, one is too use blog more, now with the wonderful labels.

I wonder how many books you have to buy before a free
trip.