Holly shit PA did the bench, I'd so totally forgotten about the bench.

And from the "For the love of sweet Jesus" Corner, Wilberto sent me this.

Well Sydney seemed to remember it is meant to be a sunny warm place on saturday, instead of a cold rainy shite hole. So we went over to manly to catch up with Zoe and Vinney who are back from there travels and take in the Manly Jazz Festival on so we lay round in the sun listening to jazz. We then erm went for an Indian as you do at the beginning of the night ( not a good idea by the way) then bounced round a few bars.

So I meant to say something about the weekend instead of rant, so here we go. Saturday we were going to go for a walk round the north shore, but it was windy and not that hot (after being 25+ all week) so we went for a wander into town and there was a wine and food thing on in Hyde Park, lots of Yummy Food and good booze a very pleasant why to spend a Saturday. Then Saturday night we caught up with a Cousin that was over for the weekend, which was cool. It was good to catch up after not having seen him for 10 years. Sunday was pretty relaxed we went for a drive then mooched at home, with a small �lets watch a crap movie� interlude of watching �About Schmidt�. Slice of life movies interest me about as much as soaps, woo watch people going through all the unpleasant things you get to do, woo nothing unreal no escape, good use of my time. Also watched the first half of the Liverpool game, baa, I don�t watch, they win, I do watch, they lose.

So incase you haven't heard its ok to be sexist and racist in New Zealand, just don't hit your kids or take drugs.
Why hasn�t the arse been fired? In a country that is so overly politically correct I would have assumed calling someone a "cheeky darkie� would have been grounds for dismissal, if he had called a Maori a �cheeky darkie� one assumes it may have been different � however seeing as it was only the Secretary General of the United Nations - it is ok.
Well done Mr. Holmes New Zealand is once again in the world news because you are a twat and the people you work for have no spine.
ew Zealand, just don't hit your kids.

OK I was have a look at Jane and Richard's Blog and after a few hops found Geo url, very cool in a geek way.

Hmmmmmm so our flat has this weird temperature differential, its never above about 15 degrees downstairs compaired to either upstairs or the outside world. Which leads me nicely into even if its about 25 and humid as a bastard outside as I have just found out I mean how can it be that different, we dont have double glazing, AC or any other temperature altering device. We have some freak heat sink of a living room, hmmm I'm thinking House or the school in Buffy, take your pick.

I just finished watching Once Upon a Time in China III, Brilliant. Good to see Jet Li in non Hollywood movies.

How sweet will like be once GT 4 is out, oh yes indeedy.

Dave just told me about this .

I have now eatin in the rocks 3 times and two have been crimes against food, it is an evil place for tourists. How I ask you can you cock up scallops and pasta ? By making it taste about as interesting as cardboard, that is how the place we went on Saturday did it, Baaa.
So food rant over, Sunday was cool, we drove round in circles attempting to escape from road closure due to the Marathon, then finally got into the blue mountains and did a bit of walking. Great place even if they have closed the walk we wanted to do. This turned out to be a good thing as we did a couple of other shorter walker and felt totally buggered so god knows what would have happened if we had opted for the 5 hour walk. We also went on a scenic rail thing which was kinda cool, once agian I'll have a look for a link to it later.

Forgot to mention, Emma got a car the other day, its a 98 HyundaiExcel Gx, will attempt to find a picture of it later on.

Long time no blog, we have had about 54 million people stay with us over the last week or so, Tom and Julia arrived from the travels on there way to Melbourne. Then Emmas parents turned up a few days later and finally Dad for the weekend. It was good to see everyone and equally its now nice to have a house back to ourselves. Not much of a change on the job front apart from an offer for a job in London, good one.

Ok, first:
Look-a-likes
Natefrom six feet under
Tycho from Penny Arcade.


No I have never seen Tycho, I'm talking about the pic on PA.


Second:

So Google Owns blogger, so why no !"$#%� link on the google homepage, huh ?

Ok why is it windows key + L to switch Luser under XP ? Microsoft people being funny ?

Me and Emma have just got back from seeing 28 Days later, I will now manage without sleep until I forget about the movie.

Well, we had a good weekend, hired a car and drove up to the blue mountains and the beaches north of Sydney, very cool weekend. So television may not be on the same level as it is in the UK, however a glimmer of hope is Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. We have just finished watching this weeks programme, it is a sign of a brilliant interviewer when he can address his guest about 10 minutes into the interview as a "seriously fucked up individual", then about 5 minutes after that then refer to their sole career is "crap". Ya don't get Paxman saying that to our Tony, now do ya :D.

So has anyone else noticed that clothes are like people, guys clothes, wash them hot, wash them cold, tumble dry them, line dry them, they don't care. Womens clothes, wash at 29.45 Degrees, slow spin, short massage, don't tumble dry, dry clean or don't line dry. Waft until dry with tissue paper. Arse is all I have to say. Ok while I'm here, I was going to listen to a CD just now, I use Winamp over Windows Media Player, personal taste and the fact that Media player doesn't just play the music, it does 58 million things but play the music. Anyway the CD in question is an "Enhanced CD", which means I get some crap quicktime presentation and no access to the Music except through Media player baaaaaaaaaa.

Grandfather died Sunday, buggery. Knew it was coming but still a bit of a shock, tend to think you will always get to see people one more time. Oh a more up beat note, I've been using feed reader for about a week or so, about the same time I found Martin Fowler had a feed to his blog/bliki.

Had Fish and Merial stay last monday which was cool and err this monday caught up with a couple of folks over from london. I'm currently playing with Prevayler and Hibernate.