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.

We went to watch the Chinese New Year parade in the center of town today, it was really great, amazing dragons and a relaxed atmosphere. After the parade went past us we followed it down into Chinatown and ended up at the Chinese gardens next to Darling Harbour, where there was an amazing dragon display with cracker at the end, was very cool, the dragon guys are very fit. After the display we went for a wander through the gardens, they are brillant built 2 waterfalls, loads of fish, birds and even a couple of lizards, really relaxing. Also stopped off for lunch in there tea rooms and had Dim Sum, yummy yummy. We were walked back via the rocks, so we could have a look at the market and had just stopped for a beer when Dad called to say hello, and he told me about this. Apart from the lose to the families I wonder how many years it will put back the space program. Instead of bombing Iraq maybe Bush should move all that new found money to space. Oh well, not a happy day after that. Popped into our local cafe ( Hot Gossip) for a quick snack on the way home, as per usual very yummy. Buggered now so I'm gunna go to sleep.

Ummm ok, this is funny, thank you /.. Went to the Cafe round the corner from us for breakfast this morning for another yummy big breakfast, ok we don't get the breakfast we get toast, but still, we are build up to a breakfast. Ahhhh back in a land where a cafe isn't a chain, serves good food and coffee. Went over to Manly in the afternoon lay on the beach, then went to the New Brighton Hotel for a couple of beers before meeting up with Vinney and Zoe for a Few more beers ( and a drunken call to Neela so she could hear dimitri playing ) and then some yummy food at a resturant all Out of Africa, most yum.

Righto not sure how far I�ll get with this seeing as I have loads to tell and I�m not sure how long I can be bothered to stay up.
Had a good chat with Richard and Jane the other day over yahoo, can�t wait till ADSL turns up and we can try again. I imagine the quality will improve if I�m not on dial up.
Rob and his daughter Hannah were over round last weekend, it was good to catch up with him and go for a wander to the star wars thing on at Power House Museum in Darling Harbour.
On Sunday Emma and I wandered down to the Opera house to watch the Australian Day ferry race and then headed out to have a barbeque at Rob sisters Penny, although before leaving Circular Key to head out to Pennys we saw the maddest women, she was wander up to people and either hit them or tried to set them alight with a lighter, weird.
On the Saturday before Australia Day, Emma and I wander up to Centennial Park to go to the moonlight cinema which is cool although, spot the "out of towners", that was us with no mozzie killer, anything to sit on, any jumpers, anything to eat or drink. However the ground was comfortable enough and you could buy a bottle of wine for about ten dollars, so it was loads of fun and the movie was good.
Its been all go on the job front this week, have spoken to people and sent about 45 billion emails out ( ok a few less) and seem to be making some head way, key thing if you are about to move countries, make sure that your job market isn�t dead.
Oh rich sent me this link it would appear its now cool in England, now that I have left, noooooooooooooooooooo I didn�t wanna see your bloody stupid snow anyway!
Oh last night I was introduced to the wild life of Sydney, we had a Huntsman move into the bathroom. Emma wouldn�t let me relocate him, so he had to sleep with the fishes. So I�m now an arachnid gangster, needless to say not cool in the karma department, booo.

More on H.K and Oz in a bit, worried about Team NZ at the moment, well at least a Kiwi will skipper the winning yatch, yadda yadda.

Looks like that is sorted, and of course after `Ellison observed wryly of Alinghi: "They were a little bit like a fine Swiss watch with some Kiwi parts."',then Larry the man.

Been to Bondi, bought everything but a house, had Emma's parents to stay for a few days, I'm gunna start looking for work tomorrow.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa its hot and sunny outside and I'm in here looking for a printer for Emma,booooooooo. Nothing much happening on the job front, keep thinking "mwaaaaa I should have a job" then switching to "ya ya no job, no job, sunshine, sunshine". Oh well back to the exicting world of printers.

Well we have a home, it took a week,felt like a bloody year. We also have dial up access until adsl becomes available, meant to be 2 weeks, we shall see. It is well different being here, its sooo like home, although the people are friendlier than home, although Im not sure if thats just because we have accents , we'll find out.

Oz ADSL here