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.

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.