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

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


GAH

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

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

Is cupcakes a euphemism for breasts ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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

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

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

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

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

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