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.

Found a review of
World's Fastest Indian

Oh god, I live in the same country as this woman and they want to be a credible opposition, but can't even unite one day after a leader change. Howard will be in until he can't walk or until either Labour or the greens get there shit together.

About bloody time,
really does make rather a lot of sense - *Sigh* wonder how long we have to wait.
Of course we can bring our mighty air force to any union -mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Just brought and watched the world's fastest indian, wonderful.

My lovely new mac is here and I have got used to the extra screen real estate disturbingly quickly. I've spent all day rebuilding the PowerBook, well a reinstall and applying updates and installing a few of the basics like growl, Adium and quicksilver.

My god the screen is small, sigh.

I need to sort out disk space, I only went for the 100 GB and I'm through two thirds of it already *sigh*.

*sob* they are here at last, now, how to pay for it.

Intelligentsia - what a wanker

What the world needs now, is International talk like Scooby Doo day.

Stubble Static : The noise stubble makes when your phone rubs against your face.

This is great.

Bloody hell, Peter Brock has been killed!

Okay, I'm back from Laos - It was great, more later ( Photos being uploaded to Flickr as I type).

Went to Gomez lastnight, it was fucking awesome - they were so not what I expected, for one there was thousands of them, okay 7 or something and they all looked normal - Not all "we are cool cos we are in an excellent band".

Oh and on a "funny, but incredible bad taste", bring you this.

Saw Paradise Now over the weekend, excellent movie, well worth a watch - Aeon Flux, however, is most definitely not.

My god, something good out of the Sydney morning herald, what next ?

Brought a tagine and a great Moroccan cookbook over the weekend. So far I have learnt the following:

a) Tagines change temperature slowly compared to a gas hob, don't turn them up and leave them - they make a mess.

b) Pay attention to measurements when it comes to mixing spices, to much chili IS a bad thing.

The cookbook is made in morocco, brilliant book, even if you don't want to make any of the recipe's, wonderful photography.

Different availability on itunes shits me, as does incomplete album collections.
Would you buy paint from someone who can only supply 4 out of 6 colours or 2 out of 16.
Media companies need to move on, there will always be those that don't pay, you should never impede those that are willing to, nor those that are shopping via trusted medium.
Media Whores: Jono et al.

Neither Tim no Al Gore invented the internet, get over it.

Aaaaaaaagh, I switched on the telly. Better homes and gardens.
Apparently, you need 4 levels of pillows in 6 different colours.
For fucks sake, they were telling people how to make a bed, puh lease.

Waaaaaaa, they are now talking about sandpaper, who the fuck doesn't
understand the difference between the different types, or if you don't
know which ask when you buy.

fuck me, I swear people will be told how to wipe there arse with, of course,
low cost MDF.

wa wa wa

Yoda will always be cool.

ok so went to buy some pixies off itunes and they took me to the US store - HELLO - where the fuck do you think I am ?

ok, deep breath.

AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE ONE FUCKING ALBUM I WANT, sluts, everyone in and associated with the music industry are cheap vapid whores.

Hi, I don't want to pirate some cheap ass bullshit version of your music, I'd quite like to download it from some niffty slick looking interface that JUST WORKS. Of course it wont matter what part of the world I'm in, not unless you're trying to bend me over and butt fuck me for wanting to buy YOUR music, no of course not.

It must be a geo-political thing, John Howard really has a thing against only one Pixies album. Doolittle, you will here ol' John say, was piss poor and not worth it, therefore I decree it shall not be available online in Oz.

fuckers, you are all fuckers,everyone of you music industry leach bastards.

If spent anywhere near the amount of time doing the things I want to do instead of panicking about not doing them, I'd get them done :|

Went to the Archibald last weekend, haven't been to a gallery for far to long, the exhibition was brilliant. Grant insisted we get there by 10 otherwise it would be to busy.

We were, it was, why do people turn in complete fucking morons in galleries ? If I'm standing in front of a piece, DON'T WALK IN FRONT OF ME THEN STOP AND LOOK AT IT - FUCKERS.

See yet another reason why I should be allowed a gun, Darwinism just isn't effective enough.

We also popped downstairs and had a look at some photographic exhibition. A couple of things stood out.

1. I need glasses or galleries really need to use a much bigger font for the description of photographs.

2. Lots of people are using digital cameras.

3. If it's art you don't need to have crisp colours, focus or any composition.

People are also manipulating digital images with photoshop and the like. I'm not sure I agree with this, it seems a little to much like cheating.

Oh, I've brought a new lens for my camera, it's another idiot proof Nikon 55-200mm, went down to Clovelly and had a bit of a play with it after the gallery last weekend - I spent most of my time hard against 55 and wanting to change back to my normal lens - pah.

Where the fuck do I live ?

Who the fuck has job sites that you HAVE TO REGISTER BEFORE USING ?

Australia does, its jobs.com.au

Guess what it doesn't work on Safari.

Fucking winners, I hope it's some kind of very bad joke.

The word is spreading, mwa mwa mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

How is cool is this

Television advertisers must assume Australians to be inherently stupid, the advertising for all the shite american programmes that gets pumped into the televisions has phrases such as "a twist you will never see coming" or " you wouldn't have expected".

Is it because the Oz public are so thick or the story lines so ludicrous ?
Bah !

Amazon get into Mass storage, check it. Hmmm I wonder if google is still going to bring out the gdrive and how it will differ from the amazon service ?

Rock on, blogger widget by google - as well as google search widget and a gmail widget - get them here.

gotta love google and apple.

And from Ash this, just makse you think of goat cx, really - just wrong.
Still I guess it works, you don't have to pay for a nanny for your kids

Nick Cave and a bottle Scotch, does IT get any better after a shitty day at work.


No.

Google earth for real computers is out . Ya ya ya ya ya ya.

Also I'm trialing Blue Phone Elite, seems pretty cool and works with my new phone - a Sony Ericsson v600i - huzzah ! The only thing it is missing is routing the call through the computer speakers and mic, that would mean my phone can just stay in my bag at work.

House is the happiest music on the plant and fuck me if Nice 'n' Urlich aren't the best examples of this.
Really need to find out when they are playing next, It would be good if they could tie it in with some other reason for me being back in NZ ;)

I've just spent 2 hours looking for my camera battery charger only to find that it was still in the fucking suitcase. grunting noises can not even begin to describe my disgust - but let me try nergh baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Sometimes I just feel so articulate.

iTunes is worse than crack, ok so I've never had track, but itunes is robbing me of all my money.

People are all inherently fuck wits, example.

Killing people for eating animals ranks up there with killing people for supporting abortion.

It is disturbingly flawed.

I understand not eating meat and being pro-life. However to kill for either is stupidity in the extreme.

What next, do we all have to go to the lengths of the suicide bomber and the Israeli Jet, just to get our point across ?

Muppets, complete fucking Muppets.

Wonderful advert, watch it now, funny and takes the piss out of all the stupid things Australians have done over the last year.

Hmmmm if ya going to go clubbing - go in Auckland, Sydney is a bunch of arse.
Drunk fuckers more interested in getting trashed, fighting and what each other is wearing than the music, really just sooooooooo suburban - fuckers. Bridge and Tunnel as our New York friends would say.

Happy New year.

I've become Dilbert, I'm not happy about it.

If you think the water you put in the freezer several hours ago is still there, it probably is - Doh.

Public blogging is arse. Not all you want to share is public.

Pah!

Other stuff -
delicious, not sure if I like this or no - the Flickr thing is cool, being a corp not so sure.
This I dont like.
Ya ya Sydney is such a great place.

A some what scary forecast for Apple freaks at zdnet blogs.

So went and saw Jamiroquai on Saturday, really liked it - haven't been to a concert in bloody ages, did manage a live gig the other night. Although I had been drinking for bloody ages before hand so may not really count, though it was also great.
Barefoot bowls on Sunday and a pub quiz tonight, pub quizzes aren't as crap as I thought.
Cayne found the most amazing online radio err type thing check it out - it's Licioustasticorama, haven't decided if orama is a bit much, oh well.

So what is a below average Apple ad on TV, its a Microsoft ad. Poor, poor, poor - I mean how much bloody money do you need to come up with a good advert.

video ipod and a telly, such a fucking cool idea - nice.

ok, I'm still alive. I am working like a mad bastard also had someone down from the US for training for 6 weeks. Turned into a bit of a learning drinking extravaganser. Oh and I brought a new video ipod, fucking amazing, I haven't played with the video side of it yet. But it is still bloody lovely, and smaller than a small thing, that is quiet small and yet holds a sooooooooo much music. Nice very very nice.

Well iTunes has finally launched after waiting bloody months, currently downloading "Let Us Play" By Coldcut, fucking brilliant.
Will see how fast it downloads,currently looking like 4 minutes to download a eight and a half minute song. Also the err Album ? was only 17 dollars.
About time, Huzzah.

Finally back in my flat, after going to New York. I've been house sitting for some friends who were back a couple of days ago, I left just before they were due back. Could have stayed a few more days, but I've been working such manic hours I figured the last things they wanted was a) someone living in there house, b) some manic getting up at 6 to go to work, coming home whenever having a scotch and doing to bed.

Good to be home, if not a touch weird.

Well that was most mundane, bed time.

Hmmm, last blog was 9/11 and I've just been in NYC for 10 days, weird. Its was good. I'll attempt to blog about it properly at some stage. Finished reading Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham, the copy I was reading didn't have the crap cover in the link, once again I'll attempt to blog more about it at some stage, beautiful book, lovely to read.
I've now started on another Maugham book titled Merry Christmas, which seems wonderful so far.

Fuck me, the bbc are trialing pod casting, this is excellent. The beeb are always ahead of the game.

cool google talk, my gmail address.

Ash must have had a hand in naming this company.
Oh my, how a puerile sense of humor just keeps on giving.

Ash sent me this Chillicam, first decent use of a web cam yet! had a good weekend, well a good sunday. A bit of a drive up to Brooklyn then back down to Sydney via wiseman ferry, err I'll check that name. Amazingly beautiful part of the world and about 45 minute out of sydney we from home-ish. Managed to stop for a few beers with Brent in Gordon.

I'm currently enjoying a rather wonderful Martini, found a good article on them at Salon.
On the olive, lemon zest discussion, it really has to be lemon.
If you leave the olive in till the end, the martini tastes overly strongly of olive, otherwise you have to eat it. If it is a poor quality olive you are left with the taste of olive all through your mouth and martini.
Hence Lemon zest, nice, citrus refreshing and constant.

If you want to piss your self laughing, reread through IM conversations you've been dirnking. I was looking through a skype IM I had with Richard, it was meant to be things I'd have a look at over the weekend, it really just went off tangents all over the show, rambling nonsense, wonderful.

Manic weekend, a few quiet drinks on Friday pretty much turned into a bender ending up at home about 1 making loads of pasta, can't stand, nor talk, but can cook, wonderful.
Woke up a little rough on Saturday just in time for a shower and to run out the door to go have Yum Cha for breakfast, that was pretty much the last coherent action of the weekend, me and a mate got left alone for half an hour while his wife buggered off to look at clothes so we ended up sitting in the sun have a beer.
From there we wandered through Hyde Park to Pier 26 in Darling harbor, for a few pre-match drinks, then off to Telstra Stadium, to watch the Bledisloe Cup. Our state of mind can be summed up by the fact that instead of waiting for the free buses, we jogged to the stadium, not good, not good at all, at least it burnt off some of the booze. What we all remember of the game, it was good, the score was very very good. Excellent seats, in one corner, so had a wonderful view.
Post game is pretty much a lost cause for all concerned when it comes to recollection, I know we stopped at a beer tent on the way to get a train back into town, had quite the lively debate the a few guys, no idea what it was about, lots of laughing though.
<---- LARGE BLANK ------> Drinking at some dodgy pub near central station, pretty much totally incoherent by this point in time, no idea how long we were there or what the hell we got up to, I remember getting a cab home or at least I remember being in a cab then waking up in my flat. A few moments of panic, I was able to find I had all my limbs, a pittance of the money I had left with and all my clothes.
All in all a good weekend, I may take next weekend off and watch a video, maybe have a bottle of wine.

How the fuck do you damage a weapons range ?
It is by definition something you bomb.
Oh shit, oh shit they blew up our dirt,
Stupid bastards.

Big Ad.

My god, Ash was listening to the cricket on the BBC, so I thought I may as well have a listen while I watch on TV, see if I could get some better commentary. What do I discover, Henry Blofeld is still commentating on cricket. I thought he had retired years ago, I'm sure I hadn't heard him commentating for years.
Then again maybe I haven't been watching or listening to enough cricket. I can't describe how happy I am to hear Henry commentating he is just wonderful, lovely, watching the television almost detracts from the game.
Wonderful, just wonderful.

I wrote this off as a load of old bollocks, but having happened to run in to it. Wonderful, watch The Memphis Trousers Half Hour With Roy & H.G..
Wonderful, irreverent comedy.

God I love British television, even while watching on with a shite signal.
Spooks it is just wonderful.

Well, interesting day yesterday, woke up to someone trying to break in through my bedroom window, uncool. Rung the police haven't heard back - I live 50m from a police station.

I don't mind them being that slack, I just want a gun if they are going to not respond.

Fish popped in as well so we nipped round to the National for a meal and some drinks. Wonderful evening but it did make for a long day today.

Checked out the Marble Bar and Zeta bar on Saturday night, I think I prefer Zeta over the Marble, both nice bars though, over all a good day.

Rich T has come through with the business - Stuff on my cat, class, fucking class.

Oh spent 3 hours cleaning my flat tonight, it's 2 rooms how the fuck does that happen, I think about an hour could have been trying to figure out how to stack my CDs without bookend to hold them in place.

I need more music, people need to give me money to buy more CDs, or if apple ever get the fucking useless arses into gear, tracks from itunes in Oz.

Well Emmas found someone else, that took a long time.
Venting don't want to talk about it.

Looks like they are at is again, so far it is on sky news

Excellent, although wonderous song from rather good, Independent Women is still the fave though.

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.