Emmas book is out!

I've been using FitNesse at work for a few things. Anyway I was looking round for a way of implementing something in a better way and found a supporting site by one old of my university lectures, cool.

Bloody hell it's been a while since I blogged I keep thinking about it, must not being getting round to it.
So what the hell is up with toilet paper and tissues ? Loo paper is scented and tissues are not, does this not seem just odd to anyone else ?
I've signed up with a google mail account to see what its like, so no mail, although I have only had it 2 minutes :D.

Finished the Big Sleep, brilliant. We had a good easter - went to a National Park north of sydney on friday with Zoe and Vinnie, amazing weather, lovely park and another great BBQ by Vinnie. Then for a change we went round to theres for a BBQ that night :D. Saturday Emma and I went to the Easter show, not bad, but waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to many people and most of the were REALLY REALLY hick, like called cleetus hick. The other two days we lay round the house eating. I did a small easter egg hunt for Emma which she thought was silly, but still wandered round the house to find :D.
Ahhh and I'm blogging from bed with Emmas laptop, it's been nice, I've been reading and Emma has been surfing round for a new camera.

Simon, has just reminded me via I’m that I was going to keep up to date with what I was reading. I finished “The man who ate everything”, it was good if you’re into food, hmm probably if you’re not as well. I found it to be gonzo journalism like - a la PJ
O’Rourke- replacing the sex, drugs and politics with food (NO this doesn’t detract from the over all enjoyment of the book ) .
I’ve started reading “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler which is fucking brilliant, although it takes a few pages to get used to the fact it isn’t a cliché, that it’s the real thing. Amazing to read, it’s talking too long,only reading an hour or so every few nights, baa.

If this doesn't make sense I'll look it tomorrow.

Looks like the Intellij Vs Eclipse decision has been made for me and we are going to use Intellij I must admit its one of the more pleasant decisions that has been made in a work environment that I haven’t agreed with 100%. Then again I wasn’t sure which I wanted to use and while I prefer Eclipse ( Its CVS integration is about 901234812390480291348 years ahead of Intellij) I think Intellij is going to be the right decision for our team so huzzah.
On the non geek front, I’ve started buying music again, so the RIAA can relax. I started off with the usual small Jono select of music, Chet Baker, Eric B & Rakim, Verve Unmixed and ColdPlay – A Rush of blood to the head. The ColdPlay CD is fucking amazing very refreshing; Eric B & Rakim is good although there is still an elusive remix CD of Paid in full I keep on missing. The Other two CDs I have no idea about yet :D.

Geek Stuff, I'm currently looking at Intellij 4 and Eclipse 3 M8. Both seem a bit unstable with standard memory, eclipse seems to have sorted itself out with an increase in max heap size, and I think this will sort Intellij as well. I've always been in the eclipse camp but now I have the chance to choose. I'm unimpressed with the cvs integration in Intellij is pants and the new cvs integration in version of 3 of eclipse is wonderful it backgrounds itself while doing large jobs so you can get on with whatever.
On the down side eclipse wont compile code whose package structure doesn't match the directory stucture. Now while this sounds good in theory I'm working with god knows how many other develops scattered all over the place who all do things a little differently soooooooooo it would be nice for the #@$%#@$% code to compile - its also no part of the Java Spec, so why not just make it an option Eclipse dudes. *Cough* if anyone does know how to make this work under eclipse please tell me.

New Job is going well, been having fun and enjoying the last of summer over the last few weekends, will attempt to blog more. Only 20 more sleeps till the start of the MotoGP season wooooooooooo, only 20 more sleeps till the fun and games of figuring out how to make time to watch the races boooooooooo. Yes I've changed this yes i did get taken on an aprils fools joke baaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Ash just sent me this , class.

Ahhhhhh joy, looks like I will be able to get the Guardian again, dunno why this has taken so long, after looking at the demo it would appear someone has figured out how to export from Quark to Pdf, Huzzah.

Hmmmm Thirteen Days tonight and On the Beach lastnight, bring on the happy films, woooooooooo. Jesus, bad movie combination.

Hmmmmm I upgraded browsers from Mozilla Firebird 0.7 to Firefox 0.8, a version increment and a name change, and well it sucks. the browser has gone from a zip to a windows installer and from working to not. Firefox _Never_ fully loads a page and seems to have a great deal of trouble with finding small sites like the bbc, baaaaaaa.

In a desperate attempt to keep track of what I have read, here is the following: I've just finished the Philip Pullman Trilogy His Dark Materials, rating 4/5 to 5/5, better than Harry Potter, hmmm also a little different, the only thing I would say is the last book seems to drag a bit.
And I'm just about to start Jeffrey Steingarten the man who ate everything, so erm I have no idea what its like :D.

Hey Hey, it's Grey Tuesday.

Good weekend, we drove north to Patonga and camped at a really beautiful, but very noisy site on the water. On Saturday we went on a guided kayak tour with Southern Adventures, we did a half day trip, which was four hours, which turned out to be a good length – we were both buggered by the end of it. Well worth it, loads of fun.
After that we drove further up the coast to Port Stephens and stayed at a place called Koloa Shores, much quieter, but not as nice, much more into making money, I think the cabins would be good.
Sunday we went on a dolphin cruise, with Moon Shadow, managed to see a couple of pods of dolphins and had a relaxed wander round the bay. The cool thing was seeing a couple of hammerheads just below the surface.
After the cruise we drove home via some huge sand dune - Stockton beach then through the Hunter valley, beautiful and filled with vineyards.

Saw the Fishers this morning for a quick coffee, amazing how far some people will go for a cup of Joe :D. Richard sent me this, two things : one - Kuro5hin is still round I thought it had gone under and two, Microsoft have comments like anyone else.

Just got back from Return of the King, fan-fucking-tastic.
Who else thinks Pippin and Merry are the Ant and Dec of Middle Earth ? - Also this just in - 70% of ppl can't tell which is which.

SmileyFaceMasterMind or SFMM

Or another way to waste your time - We all know the rules to Master Mind :

black pip for right colour, wrong hole

white pip for right colour right hole

maybe no pip for wrong colour, wrong hole.

Ok so I’m not 100 % on the rules – we won’t let that stand in our way. Replace white, black and missing with :), :| and :( and the colours with other smiley faces of your choice.
The only bit I’m not 100% on how to stop the erm master not cheating the mind – by lying about what 4 faces they had choosen.
Right I’m glad I shared that with you.

We have just had the most amazing storm go over the top of us, pretty much continual lightening - most cool.

Wow, I'm becoming really slack at this. Ummm I was in New Zealand for a week about a week ago, was good to catch up with a few people and have a look round. Need a chance to spend a few weeks at home.
Went to Many on Saturday had a cool day snorkeling and then boozing with Zoe and Vinney. Then on Sunday went on the zig zag railway with Emma and then caught up with Zoe and Vinney again and we drove round the Blue Mountains.
Watched Bend it like Beckham last night top film can't believe I haven't seen it sooner – very cool. Also watched the league of shite pants gentleman - needless to say it wasn’t as good as I thought. There should be a law against Sean Connery working in bad movies. Oh and Neela has just sent me this which makes this and this much more understandable. Much like Guinness, good things come to those who wait.