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

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

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

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

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

What is the song Charlie about ?

It's from the Dizrythmia Album by Split Enz.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why hasn't google brought Encyclopaedia Britannica ?

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

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

Desktop Tower Defense - group moose.

this is enough to make you cry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A bit random, a bit geeky.

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

Drugs and Spiders.

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

Incremental - going mad bit by bit.

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

Apple is coming to sydney, about time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cool.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How cool is this.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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