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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Madberto just sent me this brillant!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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