Hmmm so Howard got in, no great surprise there, more of a surprise will be finding someone who voted for him, almost like finding an English person who voted for Thatcher. Howard getting in doesn't scare me that much, I think it was probably the best thing for the country, while Latham would have been an interesting experiement, not sure I would have wanted to be here.
Something that scares the crap out of me it the distinct possiblity that Bush will return for another term, god help us if that happens, or should that be god help everyone in the non western world.

How much does this rock, the Virgin Galatic site doesn't have any start dates though :( and Branson thinks there are only 3000 people who would be interested, hoping he doesn't mean "Rich Enough" :|.
Ekk Ok it's 100,000 pounds some people read the articles :D. Well its a lot but not _THAT_ much :S.

A fun but witless use of google.

I was going to blog about how good my phone is, but I've just read someone else's review so go and read it
here. The battery life on my replacement phone is amazing, I'm now getting 4 days out of one charge, yes very very low use :(.

I Almost have my powerbook sorted as well, everything is good.

Ok a quick note we are back from our holiday to Port Douglas, I got my phone replaced while I was away and the new one seems to work, and I am writing this on my new powerbook. wahoo wahoo I finally got one. Righto more of an update later when I have time.
Hmmmmmm this is so nice to use.

Got a new phone, its a Nokia 7610. So far it's been a bit of adjusting I've always had series 40 phones , series 60 are a little different. The only thing I'm currently worried about is battery life seems crap , I've had to charge it twice since monday ( its Friday ). Anyway it looks cool and has a 1 megapixel camera.

Great Headline. We've been busy, that's why I'm slack and not blogging enough. Saw Pretty dirty things on the weekend, brilliant. Also saw King Arthur on Thursday at Gold Class Greater Union, movie: action - great, dialog - kinda shite. Think it's worth paying the extra money, only 40 seats, means there are only 38 other people that can piss you off, seats recline and they bring you food and drinks.
So apart from that work is going well and I've almost decided which #$%& laptop to buy.

A guy at work introduced me to bash.org today, wasn't a very productive day :D.

Emma has been back for a week, is brown and had a wonderful time, has loads of cool photos.
On a geek note, I've moved to using Mandrake and Window Maker at work, it's early days yet. Well I guess its early day yet, seeing as it all got set up today :D. However I still think it's the only desktop to have a chance against OS X. Oooooooooo and it's Stephs birthday today, happy birthday Steph.
Hmmm if anyone has suggestions for a PC Laptop, give me a shout, I need to be able to develop on it, so sort of a desktop replacement that is very lite. Money is sort of no option - if I like it enough.

Minister responds "Hmmm tastes just like tuna".

Ok this has been sitting round for ages waiting for me to finish it and its never going to happen so here are some random thoughts.


* David over for the weekend

* Firebird / Fire Fox - Thunderbird
Movement of Applications from huge to small and lovely Outlook / Mozilla / IE to Firefox , thunderbird and gmail.

* Eclipse 3.0 M9., has built in ssh key generation and amazing cvs integration and everything runs in the background. Oh yes.

Ok just updated a few things on blogger, it asked me for my date of birth. I had to enter the month first,baaaaaaaaaaaaaa after getting language and location right they drop it when it comes to dates. If anybody can explain why oh why ANYONE would put the month first , baaaaaaaaaaa. OOooo OOOo lets put the MIDDLE bit of information first, then the first second and we will leave the last bit of information last.

Hmmm in addition to this, I've just enabled blogger commenting - I'm leaving it on because I'm lazy, but I looks pants.

Wanna know what the weather is like in Sydney ? Have a look here.

Finally finished the 3rd Raymond Chandler book in The Big Sleep book, bloody amazing.
Also the final milestone for Eclipse 3.0 is out. Looks brilliant and the now have code folding wahoo wahoo. We may start using it at work, Intellij 4 has to many issues, such as synchronization times with the file system, and hanging for no apparent reason.
Went to a British Council thing on Friday for the Sydney Writers Festival to hear Alexei Sayle, Louis de Bernières and Adrian Mitchell. I think I got more from Louis de Bernières and Adrian Mitchell than Alexei Sayle, who seems pretty much as you would expect. The British Council put on an amazing evening at a cool venue looking over Sydney harbor.
Some how managed to end up at Harry Café De Wheels for a pie at the end of the night, bloody long queue, good pies though.

Considering all that is going on in the world you would think people would learn the difference between say shite and shiite or even shi'ite , which Emma tells me is the correct way.

The new version of blogger is soooooooooooooo nice, not what I'm here for though. Check out this slashdot post about people in Barcelona getting RFID chips so they don't have to carry credit cards all the information is in the chip. Woooo bring it on.

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.