Forgot to mention, Emma got a car the other day, its a 98 HyundaiExcel Gx, will attempt to find a picture of it later on.

Long time no blog, we have had about 54 million people stay with us over the last week or so, Tom and Julia arrived from the travels on there way to Melbourne. Then Emmas parents turned up a few days later and finally Dad for the weekend. It was good to see everyone and equally its now nice to have a house back to ourselves. Not much of a change on the job front apart from an offer for a job in London, good one.

Ok, first:
Look-a-likes
Natefrom six feet under
Tycho from Penny Arcade.


No I have never seen Tycho, I'm talking about the pic on PA.


Second:

So Google Owns blogger, so why no !"$#%� link on the google homepage, huh ?

Ok why is it windows key + L to switch Luser under XP ? Microsoft people being funny ?

Me and Emma have just got back from seeing 28 Days later, I will now manage without sleep until I forget about the movie.

Well, we had a good weekend, hired a car and drove up to the blue mountains and the beaches north of Sydney, very cool weekend. So television may not be on the same level as it is in the UK, however a glimmer of hope is Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. We have just finished watching this weeks programme, it is a sign of a brilliant interviewer when he can address his guest about 10 minutes into the interview as a "seriously fucked up individual", then about 5 minutes after that then refer to their sole career is "crap". Ya don't get Paxman saying that to our Tony, now do ya :D.

So has anyone else noticed that clothes are like people, guys clothes, wash them hot, wash them cold, tumble dry them, line dry them, they don't care. Womens clothes, wash at 29.45 Degrees, slow spin, short massage, don't tumble dry, dry clean or don't line dry. Waft until dry with tissue paper. Arse is all I have to say. Ok while I'm here, I was going to listen to a CD just now, I use Winamp over Windows Media Player, personal taste and the fact that Media player doesn't just play the music, it does 58 million things but play the music. Anyway the CD in question is an "Enhanced CD", which means I get some crap quicktime presentation and no access to the Music except through Media player baaaaaaaaaa.

Grandfather died Sunday, buggery. Knew it was coming but still a bit of a shock, tend to think you will always get to see people one more time. Oh a more up beat note, I've been using feed reader for about a week or so, about the same time I found Martin Fowler had a feed to his blog/bliki.

Had Fish and Merial stay last monday which was cool and err this monday caught up with a couple of folks over from london. I'm currently playing with Prevayler and Hibernate.

Is there anything better than discovering you haven't read Penny Arcade! for a few days, wooo. Dads birthday today, happy birthday Dad.

Righto, I finally got round to putting a new version of Cave up, fixed a few bugs and added support for colour displays.

We had Zoe and Vinney over for christmas on the weekend, had a huge christmas lunch, including pudding and presents, it was cool. Then on sunday we went to the SCG to watch the Sydney Swans(they play AFL), it was a good game. The AFL crowd seems a lot more relaxed than crowds at other types of footy, more family and a good time rather than getting trashed and kicking the crap out of each other. After the game we went for a few pints at the Lord Dudley, which calls itself an "Old English Style Pub", cool place.

Ok, I think I want an Apple more than ever, I seem to get windows updates daily and every other day there is a new version of redhat. I'm aware that 'update often' is a wonderful coding mantra, but come on, so is writing stuff that works before releasing it, and possibly not just releasing it with a GUI tweak and slapping a new version on it.

Was having a nose round Rich T's site and found the kittens which I hadn't seen for a while, narf.

Oooooooo I had forgotten about this, until now, I am reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. I have just read a review and agree that being set in the present scared me a bit, but so far it seems Brilliant, with the one exception that you can tell when someone writes about an area that they haven't lived in, like calling Camden, Camden Town, ummmm yeah, it is the correct name, but noone calls it that, do they, cough,cough, no.

So I know everyone who reads this loves bikes, so this and of course this will be of Immense interest to all of you. Go go Ducati.
We got back from the UK on sunday after getting pissed around by the BA staff at Heathrow, I mean how the hell can you just walk out without telling anyone, they should have all been fired. Anyway, Qantas were good and got our plane out about 4 hours late. So its ya ya Qantas, Booo Boooo BA, but then with the Rail network and the Tubes how they are one shouldn't expect the airways to be any better.
It was really good to catch up with everyone while we were over there, we are now missing everyone loads. I'm also missing Mr Dallaways new Lap top, As much as I dislike the idea of being tied to a sole company for my hardware and software, I really get sick of recompiling my kernel and reinstalling windows. I know that Apple isn't going to be the wonderous fix of all time, but I think it is a move in the right direction.

Found a good site for XML / Database information, what there is round etc, it can be found here, some of it seems a little out of date, booooo Xindice doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.

Brought the Jack Johnson CD 'on and on'. Soooooooooooooooo relaxed, very cool, go buy it. And yeah its a bit hippy stoner.

Ok, so who has stolen all the beautiful people from Sydney. Last night on the way home and this morning on the way into work it was like being in freaksville Kentucky, not what you want first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

Ok this was going to be about my phone, but it looks at though they have upgraded blogger. and God damn it looks good. very slick. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm blogger. Ok so back to the phone, I've just been out and got the Data cable and it doesn't come with any fucking software, ummmm HELLO, it's a cable and a driver, I have to download the 25 MB of functionality from the website, cos that wouldn't fit on the CD, cos it already has a Colossal 33 Mb on it, baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Oh and there is a bloody 7250i , boooooooooooooooooo.

Weekend was good, went over to Zoe and Vinneys for dinner on saturday night, stayed the night and went for an enormous breakfast on sunday morning. The beach at Manly was beautiful, clear water, blue sky, amazing.

Ok I'm going to try moving my blog to archive monthly. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It has happened, been with them since he was 11, must feel a bit shafted really.

baaaaaaaa, people suck, crap trip to work this morning some freak on the bus who was a skinny arse white guy like me taking up 90% of the fucking seat and bouncing round like some mf on crack. Then some silly bitch on the train sitting in the aisle seat doesn't move over when I go to sit down so I have to push past her to get to the empty seat, fine my arse your face. What is with people and not just moving over or at least making it easy to for people to move past. Oh while I'm here I spent all sunday rebuilding Emma's laptop, backed everything up in 54 million places, used the recovery CD, updated all the XP updates. It was still dying sorry bitch style, so i rebuild it AGAIN, nooooooooooo xp updates and guess what happy as larry. Arse arse and more arse, anyway if you have a Compaq Presario 700 Series laptop with XP home, I wouldn't go doing any windows XP updates. Oh and before you say anything yes I have coffee.

Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa just lost my #%@#$@!$ blog before posting, user error, I blame lack of coffee. So again. Emmas birthday went well, popped over to Adelaide and stayed at the Peter and Joys new house, very nice, Emma got loads of cool presents and we ate and drunk far to much. We drove to Melbourne and had a quick look round, nice place, want to go back and have a proper look, well go to some bars and pubs :D. Ummmmm installed the new Ximian Desktop yesterday, hmmmmmm monkey hmmmmmmm, its very very very nice.

Ok, so I'm not, I'm unsure about others

NO NO, I invented unix, for fucks sake people.

Emma and I went to see The Matrix, it was good, maybe not as good as the first, although it could just be that your expectation level is higher, who knows, I'd go see it anyway. Very cool. Work, shite and cool at the same time, werid paradox. Also why doesn't everyone just agree with me it would be easier.

something to read later

I glad I didn't wait for the N-Gage

Not dead, busy. rain, sun, rain rain rain rain ,sun, new furniture, broken computer, fixed computer. work crap, crap crap, good. don't knock it, its called power blogging

Go and see X2. It's good, possibly better than the first. Emma and I saw it on Friday. Ummmm I sure lots of other stuff has been happening that I should blog about but I'm buggered if I can remember what. Went out for dinner with Zoe and Vinney last night and then for some drinks at the Manly Wharf hotel, It was very funky, although the next bar darling that tells me that they don't want to shake my Martini because it will bruise the Alcohol is going to get nutted, winners.

My phone rocks, a radio in a phone is such a good idea. Oooooo went to Authors Pizza the other night, good pizza, very wank trendy people, but nice staff.

Emma and I went to a play at the Bondi Pavilion tonight called Sister Street about a guy and his mates from the second world war. It was written by one of the guys after he returned, hmmmm I'm not 100 % sure, but I think I was written recently rather than just after the war, however amazing, possibly let down a little by some of the acting, then again I can't act so yeah.

Ummmm, I'm crap I don't blog, enough. So we spent easter with Emma's parents in Adelaide, perfect weather, hot (about 25), not much wind. Met loads of friendly people drunk far too much good wine, generally relaxed, Huzzah. Oh my PS2 has been replaced and some new games AND my two UK games that weren't nicked work on my new oz PS2, Huzzah once more. Oh I now have my computer working and connected and online via an attractive bright yellow crossover cable. ummm phone is going ok, I'll get round to saying what I think is wrong with it soon (Not much). Ummm I really can't remember what I was going to say.

Righto so while this doesn't rate as a completely shite day it is getting close. Starts with more Shite Hardware then we nip out for lunch for one of the guys at work and after three quarters of an hour of waiting I give up on getting food and get my money back. Then the afore mentioned shite hardware and shite operating system goes tits up and we spend fucking ages trying to fix it. THEN on my way home I think something is strange and my gatorade bottle has leaked through my bag and over my jeans so I get to sit on a train and then a bus looking like I've pissed myself and then instead of coming home to some tv and food I have come home to washing and cleaning,baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. It will seem funnier later, like about 6 months. booooooooooo.

Never buy Sun Hardware it 's pant, bunch of chin dribbers.

Righto the shipping comment is because our boxes turned up, finally, 2 months late, they had been opened and some nice people have stolen my PS2 and all it's accessories, all my DVDs, Emma's old laptop and some CDs.
Which is nice and now the shipping company will not return calls and the lovely food parcel they gave us with our boxes mostly expired in January or February, huzzah. OOOO almost forgot, my computer had the front almost ripped off it and wouldn't start, and It looked like it was opened and played with.
That however is now working thanks to Red Hat CDs from work and the fact that I had 20 GB of free space on my disk.
Anyway Im now looking for a cheap source of horses heads and possible if the US has some spare JDAMs I think I could put them to good use.

I can blog, I can blog, so whatever was wrong has now been fixed.

NEVER use trans international shipping they are a bunch of thieves.

Well, I don't seem to be able to publish my blog which is a bitch.

ok summary of what I just blogged and lost, so bus crash, all ok weird how glass makes a popping sounds when it shatters. Watched a guy powering past the bus this morning on roller blades and a pair of shorts, going well fast, does make you wonder how you stop quickly or even not that quickly. Oh and I got a phone, its a 7250, haven't had a load of time to play with it yet, however the camera seems better than I thought and the radio is also better than I thought, oh I'm listening to Triple J .So first Impressions are the phone is less plasticly spell ? than the 7210
which is nice the camera is a gimic but cool and not as crap quality as I thought. I loaded cave onto it and cave needs colour and a little word and final Triple J is very cool.

Im really really missing K10 at the moment as I eat my rubber chicken and weird arse rice :(.

We saw Benji Reid at the Opera House tonight, He was amazing, it was put on by the British Council. Ummm I would try to describe the evening but it would sound like a load of old wank, needless to say, it was cool with a relaxed Hip-Hop/ Break-beat errr soundly thing going on, was well wicked, this is the BC link. On the way out we saw work by The Crazy Prins while we were at the Opera house, very cool. Oh Also Emma told me I was acting like Jack out Of Will and Grace, ok her exact words were, �Your acting like that guy out of Will and Grace�, to which I though she meant Will, which would have been cool. Alias no I�m Jack or if you watch enough of W&G � �Just Jack�. Oh afterwards we went for a drink at the Opera bar and watched the Stars (the ones in the sky) even renaming a few constellations (Word spelling checks this as constipations) and as we were leaving found out that the bit of the bar that was closed off, was for the after do drinks that we had passes to, anyway we were having a better time outside watching the sky, although I would have liked to talk to Benji Reid, As for the constellations they can wait for another time.

So what the fuck is up with the BBC if you submit a comment to a story there is no confimation, you don't even go back to the story. Get this you go back to the home page, HELLO can you say winners. Oh and what was I reading, a load of arse it would appear, have science publications signed a deal with closed source software companies to only write about software that costs money, What is wrong with Spam Assassin

Well from wonderful sunny weekend to pissing rain, wahoo wahoo, the weather is truly shite.

Well, a wonderful weekend is almost at an end. Our David Jones vouchers arrived the other day from New Scientist, so on Saturday we wandered into town to spend our money, after walking round the store for what must have been 2 hours we ended up getting a load of kitchen stuff and a cool cordless phone, Yay Yay. After shopping ourselves into a rest and a glass of wine we decided to go for dinner and after ringing round about 3 places finally found somewhere that wasn�t booked. It�s called Buzo, and it was amazing, the waiter was friendly but not false or imposing, the setting was neutral and relaxing and the food was totally scrumptious. Neither of us was very hungry, however we both managed to find room for 3 courses. It was sort of expensive, however I think the price was inline with the total experience. Oh and it�s the first place in Sydney that does a proper Macchiato.
On the walk home we could hear Bruce Springsteen playing live so after wandering round for a bit we found the best place to listen was on our balcony at home, it was a surreal way to end the evening.
And today we went over to Manly to see Zoe and Vinnie and go to the beach. It was overcast when we woke up but all thought it would be worth a shot anyway. On the ferry over it started to rain and all was looking lost. Once we got to Manly we popped up to see their flat which is enormous and then decided to give the beach a go.
It turned out to be hot as buggery and I even ended up doing a bit of body surfing, loads of fun.
After that we went for a wander round the bay to another beach for a late lunch, which was most yummy. We then wandered back in search of coffee and all ended up getting dessert as well and are now feeling rather fat and tired.

There is truly nothing more scrumptiously evil as a steak pie. Yum yum yum.

Well first day of work is over and I think I managed not to scare too many people, there being only eight people in the office :D. I would however like to point out to people that there must be something in the Geneva Conventation about hours of work and what is allowed as a start time. I'm sure most of you will agree that 8:30 am is an hour to be asleep and safely tucked up in bed :|. Another thing if you are going to move country take your keyboard with you, its of little use to be able to touch type if some silly bastard has moved the keys, mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Anyway first day good, yippee for work. Oh New Zealand was good, Air New Zealand was shite, never ever ever ever fly with them, did I say EVER, yes, right good. More later.

Well the Cup is on its way to a country that doesn't have anywhere to race it wahoo wahoo. Who is to blame, silly fucking small minded New Zealanders, I mean what else can we fuck up, give way or otherwise screw up sporting wise, we managed to lose co-hosting the rugby world cup and now lose the Americas Cup. If the people running Team New Zealand had have been more interested in the sport and less in money and glam maybe we could have keep the best yachts men in the world and held the cup, ah well.

We have just got back from a long day in the sun, went to our cafe for breakfast, amazing bacon and eggs, then got the bus out to Bronte beach where we lay in the sun for most of the day. There was almost no cloud it was brillant, a really chilled out beach. After the beach we wandered down and watched the mardi gras parade . The end of the parade was only about a 15 minute walk from the house sooooooo it was easy getting there. It started at about 1/4 to 8 and didn't really finish until about 10 or so, a really chilled out event with loads of cool floats, I think emma got some pictures, if so I'll put them up when I get a chance.

Madberto just sent me this brillant!

Good one, don't worry about Iraqi, there is some sad kiwi who doesn't have a life trying to cock things up. You can read about it on the bbc. Baaaaaaa I wish people had more of a life.

Ok, i have found a link and the score BLUES 31 WARATAHS 18.

The blues one tonight, I'd have a score and some links, but there super 12 website hasn't been updated yet and neither has the blues site, oh well. At least they started right.

Ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya got ADSL working. Back in the land of the living. Oh my work headphones are back to their usual :D.

So the dangers of having a barbeque, I was lighting it this evening and managed to get a large amount of very hot match head in my eye, needless to say after a lot of jumping round with my eye under the bathroom tape I managed to get most of the crud out. None the less, remember matches are not our friends; then again you wouldn�t be if someone was going to rub your head against a box until it burst into flame. Anyway BBQ got going fine and we had a scrumptious dinner of spud, steak and green veggies, and just as we were finishing it started to rain, so even the rain had timing. OOOOOOOOOOOO our boxes are somewhere in the country being questioned by customs as to there terrorist status and then we maybe allowed them, so soon I shall have my PS2, PC and well two and half other boxes of err stuff. Then world domination can start up again.
Americas cup isn�t going really well at the moment, it will get better, err please get better. I sat up and watched the cricket the other night against South Africa, so I only really saw our innings, because we were out having drinks with some friends. Back on track however, the game didn�t finish until 3 in the morning and then I spent umm 10 or 20 minutes talking to Ash about it, so I was totally shattered the next day, thank god for not working, otherwise no cricket for Jono, boo. It was a good game, very exciting and of course we won, which always makes a good game.
It can�t be to long before bikes start back up, ok ok, so I know its not till near the end of March, but that has to be soonish. The Ducati looks amazing and there is hope for Aprilia with Edwards and Haga, tis going to be a good season, hopefully I�ll have time to keep an eye on Superbikes as well

Had a late start today after having a few to many last night, although had a yummy dinner at the Light brigade (A pub round the corner from our house). Went down to darling harbour and caught some of the Dragon boat racing and got some yummy food, which got rid of my hangover. After that we caught the ferry to Manly to catch up with Zoe and Vinny to try lawn bowling, it turned out to be a load of laughs and not as hard as either Emma or I had thought, so another cool day.

Righto, Forgot to say last night that we went to see the Quiet American, it wasn't great, it was a bit crap, it could and should have been a LOT better, cool story. For every English person who bitched at me about the number of antipodeans that worked in bars and pubs etc, there seems to be a proportionate number of English people working in the serving industry here, in fact I think we have only heard about 6 Australians since we got here. We have just got back from buying Emma some new geek toys, and she is now the proud owner of a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse.

Wahoo wahoo, Rich T has played cave on a 7210, and says it plays fine and the logo works, wahoo wahoo. Have I mentioned that I have started reading a lot about oracle and clustering, because here is another one.

Articles I am currently reading Oracle and clustering, I haven't read it all, but it looks as though they had the same ideas as we did, but a bit more time and money :D.

Yet another Java XML binding tool , looks as thought it maybe ok, of course I don't have a god damn computer to download it onto and have a play, but there we go. I've also just started reading this, It's a good interview, worth the time if it's what you are into.

We went to watch the Chinese New Year parade in the center of town today, it was really great, amazing dragons and a relaxed atmosphere. After the parade went past us we followed it down into Chinatown and ended up at the Chinese gardens next to Darling Harbour, where there was an amazing dragon display with cracker at the end, was very cool, the dragon guys are very fit. After the display we went for a wander through the gardens, they are brillant built 2 waterfalls, loads of fish, birds and even a couple of lizards, really relaxing. Also stopped off for lunch in there tea rooms and had Dim Sum, yummy yummy. We were walked back via the rocks, so we could have a look at the market and had just stopped for a beer when Dad called to say hello, and he told me about this. Apart from the lose to the families I wonder how many years it will put back the space program. Instead of bombing Iraq maybe Bush should move all that new found money to space. Oh well, not a happy day after that. Popped into our local cafe ( Hot Gossip) for a quick snack on the way home, as per usual very yummy. Buggered now so I'm gunna go to sleep.

Ummm ok, this is funny, thank you /.. Went to the Cafe round the corner from us for breakfast this morning for another yummy big breakfast, ok we don't get the breakfast we get toast, but still, we are build up to a breakfast. Ahhhh back in a land where a cafe isn't a chain, serves good food and coffee. Went over to Manly in the afternoon lay on the beach, then went to the New Brighton Hotel for a couple of beers before meeting up with Vinney and Zoe for a Few more beers ( and a drunken call to Neela so she could hear dimitri playing ) and then some yummy food at a resturant all Out of Africa, most yum.

Righto not sure how far I�ll get with this seeing as I have loads to tell and I�m not sure how long I can be bothered to stay up.
Had a good chat with Richard and Jane the other day over yahoo, can�t wait till ADSL turns up and we can try again. I imagine the quality will improve if I�m not on dial up.
Rob and his daughter Hannah were over round last weekend, it was good to catch up with him and go for a wander to the star wars thing on at Power House Museum in Darling Harbour.
On Sunday Emma and I wandered down to the Opera house to watch the Australian Day ferry race and then headed out to have a barbeque at Rob sisters Penny, although before leaving Circular Key to head out to Pennys we saw the maddest women, she was wander up to people and either hit them or tried to set them alight with a lighter, weird.
On the Saturday before Australia Day, Emma and I wander up to Centennial Park to go to the moonlight cinema which is cool although, spot the "out of towners", that was us with no mozzie killer, anything to sit on, any jumpers, anything to eat or drink. However the ground was comfortable enough and you could buy a bottle of wine for about ten dollars, so it was loads of fun and the movie was good.
Its been all go on the job front this week, have spoken to people and sent about 45 billion emails out ( ok a few less) and seem to be making some head way, key thing if you are about to move countries, make sure that your job market isn�t dead.
Oh rich sent me this link it would appear its now cool in England, now that I have left, noooooooooooooooooooo I didn�t wanna see your bloody stupid snow anyway!
Oh last night I was introduced to the wild life of Sydney, we had a Huntsman move into the bathroom. Emma wouldn�t let me relocate him, so he had to sleep with the fishes. So I�m now an arachnid gangster, needless to say not cool in the karma department, booo.

More on H.K and Oz in a bit, worried about Team NZ at the moment, well at least a Kiwi will skipper the winning yatch, yadda yadda.

Looks like that is sorted, and of course after `Ellison observed wryly of Alinghi: "They were a little bit like a fine Swiss watch with some Kiwi parts."',then Larry the man.

Been to Bondi, bought everything but a house, had Emma's parents to stay for a few days, I'm gunna start looking for work tomorrow.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa its hot and sunny outside and I'm in here looking for a printer for Emma,booooooooo. Nothing much happening on the job front, keep thinking "mwaaaaa I should have a job" then switching to "ya ya no job, no job, sunshine, sunshine". Oh well back to the exicting world of printers.

Well we have a home, it took a week,felt like a bloody year. We also have dial up access until adsl becomes available, meant to be 2 weeks, we shall see. It is well different being here, its sooo like home, although the people are friendlier than home, although Im not sure if thats just because we have accents , we'll find out.

Oz ADSL here

In Sydney now, Hong Kong was cool, had a relaxed new years with Emma at one of the hotel bars, quite a surreal experience, wasn't at all busy till midnight when we got swamped with ppl to shout a lot. Anyway, Sydney seems cool so far, its been good weather so far, the people are brill and the food is yumsville kentucy.

Oh yeah, forgot to add, spoke with dad over christmas in Auckland public transport a Runs and b is Free unlike London.

Last day at work and last whole day in the country. Spent all of yesterday cleaning and packing, how much work can it be to tidy a one bedroom flat for #@?!s sake, oh well is almost done now. My birthday and christmas were cool, went to Greenwich for a last look round on my birthday and then caught up with a few friends for drinks in the evening at The George. Clare (Emma's sister ) and Lisa (My sister ) came over for Christmas arriving on Christmas Eve and we are all about a Stone heavier after eating far too much of Emmas yummy cooking.

Well only 1 more day at work, we fly out a week tomorrow, we had our work leaving do lastnight so there are a load of sore heads in the office. The leaving do was good, it was nice to catch up with people who I haven't seen for a while and probably wont see for a few years.

Well its been about two weeks since I last had a chance to blog and its also two weeks till we fly out, wahoo wahoo. OK so over the last two weeks we seem to have been either drinking, hungover or a sleep went and stayed with Fran and James in Alton had a yummy dinner and got to see there new house, had dinner with Jane and Richard and then with Dave and Lucy, the christmas party on tuesday finally managed to catch up with David Maurice on Thursday then had leaving drinks with a load of friends in covent garden last night, needless to say Emma and I spent today lying round doing sod all today. It beginning to get more than a little weird now, we still haven't finished packing, ok we haven't really started yet , we had our last day at work with Ash on friday and wont see some people again until either we come back up here or they come down and visit.

Spent the weekend in Brighton with some of Emmas friends, Emma, Ali,Phil and Andy, stayed at Emma and Andy's cool flat in Kemp town. Got there on Saturday afternoon and had a lax evening of yummy food and too much wine. On Sunday all woke up rather late and went for a wander to the Tin Drum and had a rather greasy breakfast, although if you are going to go, stay clear of there mushrooms, they taste strange.Muppet

Borris Johnson was the presenter of Have I got News for You lastnight, I think he was probably the best so far although I'm not sure if it would be brilliant if he was always presenting, get Jonathan Ross I say. Looks like they are all lining up to have a go, but will we see our Tony, I think not. Check out who directed the latest James bond.

Went for drinks lastnight for Cathys birthday, was cool, yummy beer and wine from a micro brewery in Covent Garden. Just found this and this.

Just found this this.

saw bond on monday, it was good well worth it, the best of the recent bond movies. A month to go, woooo.

I glad that New Zealand Parliament is busy with the really important issues, Tizard you muppet you are running the fecking country not making a jumper.

rich just sent me this, owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww owwww,you think you would notice if you were burning your goolies, maybe its like sun burn and you don't notice until its too late.

Mad dog is foaming at the mouth again.

Richard sent me this,I'm only about 10 minutes into at the moment, but it sounds good.

Well we lost the rugby, boooo. Also for the first time in 25 years ( ish ) the fire fighters in England have gone on strike for 48 hours with strikes later on for 8 days, no one play with matches. Also a guy has been freed after 25 years in jail. What do you say, sorry ummmmm yeah 1/3 of your life in jail, ummm yeah, here is a fiver. Anyway, its getting towards the sharp end of the year, not sure if Emma and I have a free weekend before we fly out, mwaaaa. Getting very excited about the move, wanna get there now, find a job and start enjoying it (before anyone says anything, yes I will miss people here).

Squirrel Death Wish

34 days of work left, wahoo wahoo, will miss people at work, but wahoo wahoo.All Blacks play England on saturday I guess if I had my shit together I would be going to see them so I don't might try and nip to a pub and watch.

NARF! and ummm.

Emma and I went for a wander to Leighton House today, wonderful day, nice and crisp. Leighton house was brillant although one would imagine not that amazing to live in. On the way to the tube we even managed to find me a fleece type jacket. It is a Mac Pac Vapour Jacketwhich, seems warm enough, isn't too bulky or hot so I may even wear it more than once. This is it.

Righto, remembered what I was going to say before. Emma's friend Jane is over from US for a week so we went out for dinner on monday night, we met up at her hotel, went for a few drinks in a near by bar and ended up at Pescatori for some nosh, was most yummy. Had to go into work on tuesday for half a day to help out Ash, as there was a bit of a server crisis, it all seems under control now but was a bit of a hassle ( Massive under statement) . It does however continually surprise me how little some people think before opening there mouths in a time of total panic, anyway glad I was only in for half a day. After my wee jaunt back to work Emma and I went for lunch at L 'Escargot , was most yummy and I would recomend eating there yum yum yum.

Booooo Blogger was hacked the other day. Emma and I are having a week off bumming round London seeing as we may not be here for much longer ( 2 Months till we go, almost to the day).

Went to Neela and Steves last night, to say hello and see the new pad. After all the warnings about the wallpaper and carpets, it was a bit of a let down, the patterns are a bit odd and the carpet colours are interesting, but nothing as bad as Neela had made out. The evening started out normal enough but after a few drinks we ended up comparing each others heights by drawing on the walls, I don't think steve was very impressed, but I guess they wont be loosing there bond :D. Neela made lots of yummy food so everyone is a lot fatter now, mostly veggie and very bloody hot. Then Mit�l gave Emma and I a lift back into london in her spunky new Peugeot 206, which was nice of her.

Went to Clare and Als lastnight for dinner, was cool to catch up haven't seen them for a while, ended up playing all together to much Virtua Fighter 4(Hmmm you may wanna find an English link). Lisa is in London this weekend so she came by this morning and we all went for a wander round, ended up going to St James park then to Cabient War rooms, which was kinda cool, although the women on the desk was a total mutt, ability to talk to people, nooooooooooooooooo.

Bloody hell Emma just sent me this, needless to say I dont think I'll be buying any of the booze for a bit.

More Brilliance from Will, check it, amazing what you can find on the web, in Wills words ""Imagine Destiny's Child were northern and made of cat..."

Was looking round for a few thinks and found this article at Software Reality, looks like a good site and an interesting article. Once again it looks as though anything that people say is clever we don't do it as a company, boo suck.

Hmmm no blog for a bit, my uncles partner died last week, totally unexpected and very shitty, anyway mum is taking the funeral on Monday, She is a braver person than I. Anyway onto happier things, saw the Dallaways on Thursday night, which was fabulous , calling Jane and Richard �The Dallaways� was a cheap attempt to get out of a bit of typing, not sure if it will catch on or no. anyway, back to Thursday night, we meet up at revolution for a few drinks, a small nibble and a look through Jane and Richards wedding photos, although being the slack ass I am I only got through about half of them while others power looked through them all, booo. Anyway after that we went to the Akbar to a friend of Richards pre-show party for anjali, which was cool, felt like shit the next day after drinking to much, although it was all very yummy.

We have just finished watching Parkinson on BBC 1, whose guests were Robin Williams and comedian Stephen Fry, both of whom I love to watch, Robin Williams is so quick and has sooo much energy he is brilliant, and Fry is just a wonderful man. Anyway have spent just about all of today in bed after going out to dinner with some of Emmas friends and ending up in some Shisha club, where we had to wait for the Hamiltons to leave before we could get a table. Anyway we were both very hungover today. ummm yeah.

See its not my fault, a link from Rich D, mwaaa ha ha ha ha ha .

Righto, I'm case your are interested Jack Ruby Killed Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan Robert Kennedy. If you needed a reason to watch Superbikes over F1, it was made clear when in the last race of the year, even when Edwards could settle for second and there was f all chance of Bayliss winning ( the championship), they were both racing hard nuts, it was fucking brilliant, unlike F1, which was once again staged, load of arse.