Well almost at the end of a super productive weekend, sleeping and drinking, and a little bit of eating.
The weekend is far to bloody short, just been watching Human Traffic, good movie.
God I'm not looking forward to monday, the weekend needs to be longer.

Ok so I've been back from San Francisco for about a week. Richard has a good write up on his blog, with some pictures.

I can recommend walking over flying United, planes so out of date you would be happier with a DC 3. 747s that looked new when I was flying to the UK in 83, now are cramped and lacking in any of what one would consider the basics, like in seat entertainment or say sound that works or a semi clear picture. Lets not mention the food or the service.

Javaone was good, a touch short of brilliant. A few of the key notes were disappointing, some of the sessions more than made up for them, as did catching up with friends from the UK, I'll attempt to get my head together enough to comment on the sessions / ideas I thought were interesting.

Oh and apart from a few clothing purchases I also got a new toy. It's a Nikon D50, it's nice to have a camera again. It's been bloody agese since I've had an SLR that I can play with whenever I want.

Closed Brighton and Swindon stations

If you in London could you drop me an email if I haven't heard from me today.

Someone has to go over the F1 cock up that occurred this morning ( my time), very glad I didn't wake up at 3:30 to watch.
What a fucking joke. The sport is dying, bring on 2008 and a new championship.
We can then watch Max, Bernie and Ferrari race themselves, as by then they will be the only one left in F1. To do something so monumentally stupid in the US of all places where people think as much of suing someone as saying hello to them, well done Bernie you were worried about the European banks taking all your money, well now it will be a bunch of lawyers.

Quick Book update, not because you're interested, but because I don't have anywhere else to put it yet. I finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a couple of weeks ago, easy going in terms of reading, and relatively enjoyable.

I've just finished The Moon and Sixpence, which is wonderful, well worth a read as imagine all Maugham's books are.

The New York Times as a good biography of Maugham, some what bizarrely in the film section, but still good none, the less.

As a quick note, I've also read Collected Short Stories: Vol 3, which was brilliant, Don't ask me why I started with the 3rd Volume and not the first, I have some vague recollection it had something to do with Emmas suggestion.

Lastly on a geek note, I'm reading rather slowly through Alistair Cockburns Agile Software Development: Software Through People, so far it is easy to read and makes sense. I guess you buy this kind of book to help better understand the ideas
of software development you have bubbling round in your head, well I do anyway *cough*.

Hmmm well it has been a while, not a lot has changed. I've started going out on either a friday or a saturday and then feeling rather unless on a saturday / sunday.
Bloody good fun.

So someone stole my BBQ, I now miss Emma AND my BBQ. Miss the BBQ some what less than Emma, but still. Guess if you live in a country built on thieves what else can you expect.
Fuckers.

Ahhh, there is truly nothing like thinking you have read Penny Arcade for the week and finding a wondrous unread errr comic.
I don't game as much as I used to, I sleep and go to work now. I don't even keep up with gaming anymore, the closest I have gotten is waiting for GT4 & Doom 3. I own GT4 and play about once a week, Doom I've seen and may purchase for my Mac if it is fast enough. It's not that I don't love spending 6 hours of my evening killing things or racing it more that I know that I would wake up one day being forty and the Don at GT 8 but unable to drive a real car.
I digress, read Penny Arcade, not because it's about games, because it is funny as fuck, with a wonderful sense of humor - even if you don't know everyone they are talking about.

Brilliant, Boris is a bit of a dick for the family issue, but still wonderfully funny.

It is hailing here - yay. Just reading The Guardian and found guess the google - fun.

Today would have been four years.

Nasal hair, I'm not a camel, I don't live in the desert, I really don't need that much of it.
Design flaw? I think so.
Humans are adaptable, hair, it grows.
I'm thinking - If I move somewhere dusty let the hair grown, otherwise keep it short.
A much cooler idea, give us the control camels have of the nostrils.

Okay so I have owned a Mac for some indiscernible amount of time (purchased in the second half of 2004) and have just discovered the oblong button in the top right hand corner of most applications that removes all the annoying clutter.
Apart from my complete ignorance how amazing is this, to just have the information you are after and not 400 buttons that you will never use - wonderful.

Righto what started out as a rather pleasant waffle about beer is lost, so here is the short version Peroni is very yummy.
How hard is it to write a web browser that doesn't crash as soon as one encounters flash on multiple tabs ?

Could someone please write a web browser than doesn't suck arse.

Well it turns out that the last show isn't the one I was talking about,It was Just a Minute. Still BASTARDS, as it isn't online either.
God I miss good read.

Bastards ! I'm sorry I haven't a clue, isn't online, pah, it took me ages to find the page as well.
Now listening to quote unquote, on which I have heard "History is one bloody thing after another", which is meant to be a paraphrase of Alan Bennett, check
here, you will have to search on "Alan Bennett".
They are talking about teachers and how they should nurture and provide warmth, which I can understand, I had several teachers who were wonderful and positive, while it has been a while I still remember them. I also remember a few of the bastards who were only there I can only surmise to destroy hope before it has a chance to get a hold. Sixth form Physics teachers for instance.

On a more positive note, How amazing is Wikipedia. If you want to know anything, I'm begining to think - look there.
Yes I know it isn't 100%, but err you think the rest of the internet is - and at least at Wikipedia you can contribute. My only downside is that Cayne has said he has had a bad experience with updating errors. I guess as a starting point it is good and also free :D.
Oh my continuum all things British are wonderful, a Salman Rushdie article in the Guardian.

Will that be the race of the year ?
I would like to think that there will be more racing of that caliber, However I think that given the pace MS has shown through the second half of the race, we are almost due for normal transmission.
Jesus I have turned into a Martin parrot, oh well there goes me thinking I had original thought.
I wonder if MS would like the challenge, it has been a while since he has had anyone to threaten him.
Ha Ha the music going into the break on channel ten is Tool sober, go figure, coming out of the break it was US3 Cantaloop - quite different music.
Channel have figured out how to turn a formula 1 race into a 24 hour event, ad breaks - got to love Australia, especially when you cant leave it.
I would be interested to here why they have so many bloody adverts and why the races are not live. For the love of sweet Jesus we will miss and episode of NCIS or some other shite.
Fuckers - The Australian media do take the consumers for granted, treating them with distain, less respect than roaches.
Once again fuckers - give me online coverage of F1, the same as Motogp. Jesus I don't even have that much passion for F1.
Oh dear Aussie post race coverage, with !@#$%!@ #$!@#$! @#$^!@#$ %!@#$@#$ adverts, could I just say it is quart past one. Who the hell is watching apart from me, I mean really ?

The best use of your bandwidth is BBC Radio, at least 10 stations Content is er cached so you can listen to some shows up to a week later. Which means I have spent the last two days listening to Johnny Vegas, Jonathan Ross, some comedy and Vivaldis Four Seasons, an hour long session with variations by different artists - Brilliant.
Next to find a way to watch BBC 1 through 3, Channel 4 and ITV.

This isn't the way I used to walk to work, still very cool.

when two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
Another Proust.
He would have had a Mac, although possibly an iBook rather than a powerbook, something that one can curl up in bed with.

So the Proust quote I mentioned before:
In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is proof of its veracity.

There you go then.
So I'm currently reading "How Proust can change your life" by Alain De Botton, and have just finished "The consolations of philosophy", also by De Botton.

Both are brilliant books, for some reason saying "very good" seems like I'm complementing a child. Which would be rather ironic seeing as it is I with the 5 year olds grasp of English, both written and spoken.

Bollocks there was some point to all of this a while back. Ahh yes, the Proust quote, that is now my excuse for day dreaming while reading a book, and not remembering three quarters of it. Nothing to do with an appalling memory.

Watching Freestyle - The Art Of Rhyme on SBS, it amazing. Footage going back to '73 - a very good year. Why are there only 2 channels that ever have good programs instead of mind rotting Simpson's repeats. Hmmm if I remember I'll add a excerpt from Proust I read last night, was brilliant, it was something I had thought about before but never been able to explain.

Ok It would appear having java running while performing the update is what buggered it up, we are all happy now.
I got a lot of help from the java-dev mailing list. Turns out rerunning the SecUpd2005-002 security update did the job, someone on the list also suggested running "sudo update_prebinding", which will sort the java issues as well, I can't confirm this as I think I ran the update,erm I was a wee bit pissed - something I can not recommend.

Oh a different note just got back from the Swans v Crows - go the crows. Was a good game if not very long for those of us who were hungover :(

Apple has released 10.3.9, this should be a good thing, however, I updated and lost Java.
Quite a bad thing for a Java developer one would think.
The update didn't mention that it was going to touch Java so the explanation of what has happened is going to be interesting I think.
It would appear to have corrupted the binaries, as all the java related apps are buggered, java,javac, jar etc. All I get is a segmentation fault.
Not while I'm sure the level of support I get is going to be farking amazing I've been on hold to Apple care for the best part of 30 minutes and have heard the same messages about 60 times and Sledgehammer by Peter Gabreil about 10 times.

Well, I just watched the first race of the motogp season - on the web.
It is 35 Euros for the year and you get all the European races live. I can only stream the low quality version, the high stutters too much. Having said that, the low quality version did drop out a few times, the real player stream seemed more reliable than the windows media player. Both lacked the ability to play in the player rather than embedded within the browser which was a pisser.
The over all experience was some what poor, but I think it will be worth it, while the quality is low, it is good enough. It also means I get to see most of the races live, which is the main thing. Also channel / network ( whatever they call themselves) 10 are only now starting to show the delayed coverage, so I wouldn't be getting to sleep till 2:30 or 3, not clever.
I'll give it a few more rounds before deciding whether it was worth it or not, however I'm leaning towards yes, while the quality is low, seeing it live is more important.

Ok they are both looking happier now.
You do wonder, Ok I do, if Charles sing God save my mum, and Philip sings god save my Bint.
Ok it is just me then, well ok.

*cough*

Go Charles! They love each other, what is stupid and very Hollywood is the fact they pissed around for 20 years before getting married.

He does look a touch bored with it all. I guess they are old, so have weathered a lot, I would have thought there would have been a touch more emotion.

Bugger it all I had thought I was over moving back to Europe. I'm back to being not so sure, it would be easier if you all moved here, the weather is good, and quite frankly no one will notice the odd extra european around.

baaaaaaa bring on the bloody 2 hour journey between Sydney and London, it would make it all so manageable. A nice weekend home in fact.

One again, travel is evil, if we all sat in the same bloody place we wouldn't have this dilemma would we.

No I'm not serious just confused and pissed off with everything not being simple.

Remember when you break up with someone it is important to keep perspective.
That is why I'm here with a picture on the wall of the view out of our flat in London, listening to Nick Cave drinking Scotch :).
Oh another note, I suggested clay pigeon shooting for a team building exercise to my manager and got a very strange look. Baaaa it's not like me and fire arms are a bad mix, there haven't been any accidents while I have been round then!
I thought it would have got us kudos from the head office, which is in Dallas, where one would assume not owning at least one fire arm gets a black mark against your name.

A Letter to the Java Technology Community. This is a good thing, having two technologies doing the same thing is silly as long the best of both worlds is used the outcome can only be good. A small thing, where is the fucking date, did no one at Sun ever get taught to date letters?

Panic is thinking you have left a candle burning at home, about four hours after getting to work :|. It turns out I hadn't, but by god it gave me the shits.
New place is going ok, now I have shit everywhere it is ok.

Well first night in the new place, it isn't Leicester Square is it, I was thinking that living on Oxford Street would give me the same night life, at least on a Friday night for @!#$@ sake. Look like I will have to settle for someone pissing on my door way. Oh also found a set of picture from circa 2001, Jesus we all look young and very white ( ok not Ash and Neela). Possilby pale would be a better term, Jesus aye. I'll sort scanning them and getting them erm up somewhere.

Country of fucking muppets, ok so not the whole country, but I do have your attention. Channel 10, the half wits that have coverage of the formula 1 - one are not showing it live and two are have a news break BEFORE the delayed coverage telling us about Mark Weber, now I managed to switch off before i found out what he did. But for fucks sake people do you read the last page of a book to your kids or yourself, do you play the last minutes of a fucking movie before showing it. No it's not hard, it's television you fucking morons. Fucking televisual back water, baaaaaaaa.

Rock on expose supports extra mouse buttons
I have a 5 button mouse and the expose functions linked to the extra buttons.

Well, I've started packed, so far only all my paper work, well paper work I have found so far, I know it will be everywhere. It's not going to badly at the moment, although I was only at it for about two and a half hours. We will see, currently talking Ricardo and listening to Jack Johnson who is playing in the park, when the wind changes he either gets louder or almost drops away to a whisper.
It would have been an amazing concert to go, ahh well, I guess I'm going to have to get used to that.

Ant what is your email address ? Mail me at my domain.

Here is some randomness that has been wandering through my head.


I want Bluetooth head phones to listen to my itunes

I want a Bluetooth ipod to transfer my music from my powerbook - not all of it, just the new albums I add or to change my iShuffle contents.( No i don't own one yet)

I want Bluetooth on my ipod to listen to music with my Bluetooth headphones.

I want a tuner on my ipod.

Old school IM is throwing a pad of post it notes round the office with your message on, if you want history - don't remove previous message. If a note comes off during flight, it's packet loss.

Office folk, cubical warriors brain storm. Do farmers grain storm ?

Why is there no bloody Bluetooth API for the Mac in any other language than C derivatives , say Java or even bloody python. Baaaa.

Another quick recap.
Japan was cold and not quite as weird as I remember, but still fun.
Opera in the Domain was very very hot and a lot of fun - Oh It was Tosca. Ummm Not sure what else has been happening.
Oh thats right I saw GT 4 ( Gran Turismo 4 in Japan, it's been out since the end of December. We have to wait till bloody March - grrrr. The breadth of games in Japan for the PS2 was a lot deeper than I have seen in either Oz or the UK.

ok I've almost given up trying to find time to blog about what I've been up to, so here is a concise version.

Been : Brisbane for a Wedding, home for Christmas, Rotorua for the weekend with Emma for a mud wrap.

Listening to: Edith Piaf and James Brown ( not to together )

Reading:
1) Test-Driven Development By Example - By Kent Beck.

Only about 1/3 of the way through it - excellent book, suggested to me by Cayne - well worth getting.

2) Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.

Only about - ok not even through the prologue and already enjoying it.

Playing:

Killzone on the PS2, good game although, bugger me if a mouse and keyboard isn't a better way to play FPSs.

Seen:

We went to Cosi Fan Tutti at the Opera House. It was brilliant, must try and go see more opera.\
Work:

While trying no to jinx myself, all seems ok, some of the shine has worn off. But the immediate people I work with are still and excellent bunch and I'm still learning so all is well.

Thoughts for the New Year::

a) Learn a new language - spoken, not geek.

b) Go somewhere interesting.

c) Try and get to Java one.

So after a disaster there are always people asking for money, what I think is amazing is a couple of people handing over large wads of cash, Sandra Bullock has given a Million and Michael Schumacher 10 Million - Amazing. As usually musicians are talking about putting out another shite CD so people can buy it and the musicians don't have to give up any of there money - Bastards.
So go the Bullock and the Schumacher and up the musicians.

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.

Still alive, great birthday and christmas, more soon.

ok so Love Actually, doesn't come out in Oz, until the 26th, now given the theme and content of the movie, does ANYone else think this is fucking silly timing?

We went and saw Love Actually, great movie - funny and you leave feeling all warm and fuzzy. When we got home we were just in time to watch some fat arse jump on Emma’s car, nice dents (No more warm fuzzy feeling either). Ah don't you love fat drunk people; there should either be a law against them or a license so you can shoot them. Fat Fucker hope his heart stops or something, I mean really I must so have Karma in the bank. If I do I wanna spend some of it - Baa.
Hmmm also, I looked at the Calendar today and there is only a week left of me being young, after this week it's all down hill. I'll need a walking frame and adult nappies. Then again at least I wont have to get up to use the loo or worry about falling over when I drink too much - Silver lining I guess.

Doesn’t it peeve you when sites don’t have RSS feeds, it’s beginning to feel strange to have to go to a site to see if its been updated. Not just have a spinning cube in the corner of the screen – I use Feed Reader. I’m also aware that I don’t have a feed either before anyone comments.

I have been reading in the general press and – I was going to say industry, but it’s more geek blogs – about bluejacking. I’ve been hearing more and more about Bluetooth in the last few months. I was interested in it about 3 years ago but then only the top of the line phones had it and umm, nothing else – so I lost interest.
Bluetooth in the news again has once again sparked my interest – so I wandered off to see if I could now write Bluetooth enabling applications for phones and the like. Low and behold I can, but no phones yet exist, and I’d be writing for one of about 3 emulators – all I which I would have to pay for and none of which seem to be backed by the major Phone Companies. So it looks like its back to sleep for Jono in terms of Bluetooth and Java hopefully not for 3 years this time.

Relaxing weekend, went to the Australian Reptile park on Sunday, the park is MUCH better than website, got to say hello to a Koala and see a load of other animals some even reptiles :D. Good fun even if we did seem to be one of the only non kid ridden groups.

This would be funny if I hadn't happened to me before.

Melbourne was good, loads of cool bars, was good to catch up with Tom and Julia. Rugby was good last weekend, although both of us felt like crap on Sunday.

On a different subject

So you have decided to implement some API/ Specification with a few of your friends / co-workers / script kiddies [delete non-applicable].
I have a few small requests:

1. Unless you plan to finish the fucking thing in a timely fashion - just go back to looking at porn or something.


2. Every time you implement a feature that either
   
   
   
   • Makes your product non wildly standard,
   
   
   • Hinders you from finishing the core functionality,
   
   
   
   Cut off at LEAST one of your fingers - I'll leave it up to you how many you remove – it should be inline with how much you have fucked up your product. - think of it as a primitive priority tracker.
   
   


3. Documentation– assume that whoever is going to use your product isn’t say YOU and maybe didn’t write the fucking thing and may not know what you were thinking when you only write half a sentence.
   


4. If you get bored easily with documentation - examples are good - they at least show the poor bastard trying to use your product the twisted way your mind works – also cut off a few fingers for good measure.
   

Had a good weekend with Emmas folks, loads of people over for a house warming and then Peters birthday on Sunday. Managed to see some Oz wild life that wasn't road kill which was cool, we are back in not very sunny Sydney now. On a completely different subject isn't it interesting how roaches can withstand a nuclear blast, being frozen in ice, roach spray and all manner of other bad shit™, but not a small amount of force exerted in the right direction.