Today would have been four years.

Nasal hair, I'm not a camel, I don't live in the desert, I really don't need that much of it.
Design flaw? I think so.
Humans are adaptable, hair, it grows.
I'm thinking - If I move somewhere dusty let the hair grown, otherwise keep it short.
A much cooler idea, give us the control camels have of the nostrils.

Okay so I have owned a Mac for some indiscernible amount of time (purchased in the second half of 2004) and have just discovered the oblong button in the top right hand corner of most applications that removes all the annoying clutter.
Apart from my complete ignorance how amazing is this, to just have the information you are after and not 400 buttons that you will never use - wonderful.

Righto what started out as a rather pleasant waffle about beer is lost, so here is the short version Peroni is very yummy.
How hard is it to write a web browser that doesn't crash as soon as one encounters flash on multiple tabs ?

Could someone please write a web browser than doesn't suck arse.

Well it turns out that the last show isn't the one I was talking about,It was Just a Minute. Still BASTARDS, as it isn't online either.
God I miss good read.

Bastards ! I'm sorry I haven't a clue, isn't online, pah, it took me ages to find the page as well.
Now listening to quote unquote, on which I have heard "History is one bloody thing after another", which is meant to be a paraphrase of Alan Bennett, check
here, you will have to search on "Alan Bennett".
They are talking about teachers and how they should nurture and provide warmth, which I can understand, I had several teachers who were wonderful and positive, while it has been a while I still remember them. I also remember a few of the bastards who were only there I can only surmise to destroy hope before it has a chance to get a hold. Sixth form Physics teachers for instance.

On a more positive note, How amazing is Wikipedia. If you want to know anything, I'm begining to think - look there.
Yes I know it isn't 100%, but err you think the rest of the internet is - and at least at Wikipedia you can contribute. My only downside is that Cayne has said he has had a bad experience with updating errors. I guess as a starting point it is good and also free :D.
Oh my continuum all things British are wonderful, a Salman Rushdie article in the Guardian.

Will that be the race of the year ?
I would like to think that there will be more racing of that caliber, However I think that given the pace MS has shown through the second half of the race, we are almost due for normal transmission.
Jesus I have turned into a Martin parrot, oh well there goes me thinking I had original thought.
I wonder if MS would like the challenge, it has been a while since he has had anyone to threaten him.
Ha Ha the music going into the break on channel ten is Tool sober, go figure, coming out of the break it was US3 Cantaloop - quite different music.
Channel have figured out how to turn a formula 1 race into a 24 hour event, ad breaks - got to love Australia, especially when you cant leave it.
I would be interested to here why they have so many bloody adverts and why the races are not live. For the love of sweet Jesus we will miss and episode of NCIS or some other shite.
Fuckers - The Australian media do take the consumers for granted, treating them with distain, less respect than roaches.
Once again fuckers - give me online coverage of F1, the same as Motogp. Jesus I don't even have that much passion for F1.
Oh dear Aussie post race coverage, with !@#$%!@ #$!@#$! @#$^!@#$ %!@#$@#$ adverts, could I just say it is quart past one. Who the hell is watching apart from me, I mean really ?

The best use of your bandwidth is BBC Radio, at least 10 stations Content is er cached so you can listen to some shows up to a week later. Which means I have spent the last two days listening to Johnny Vegas, Jonathan Ross, some comedy and Vivaldis Four Seasons, an hour long session with variations by different artists - Brilliant.
Next to find a way to watch BBC 1 through 3, Channel 4 and ITV.

This isn't the way I used to walk to work, still very cool.

when two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
Another Proust.
He would have had a Mac, although possibly an iBook rather than a powerbook, something that one can curl up in bed with.

So the Proust quote I mentioned before:
In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is proof of its veracity.

There you go then.
So I'm currently reading "How Proust can change your life" by Alain De Botton, and have just finished "The consolations of philosophy", also by De Botton.

Both are brilliant books, for some reason saying "very good" seems like I'm complementing a child. Which would be rather ironic seeing as it is I with the 5 year olds grasp of English, both written and spoken.

Bollocks there was some point to all of this a while back. Ahh yes, the Proust quote, that is now my excuse for day dreaming while reading a book, and not remembering three quarters of it. Nothing to do with an appalling memory.

Watching Freestyle - The Art Of Rhyme on SBS, it amazing. Footage going back to '73 - a very good year. Why are there only 2 channels that ever have good programs instead of mind rotting Simpson's repeats. Hmmm if I remember I'll add a excerpt from Proust I read last night, was brilliant, it was something I had thought about before but never been able to explain.

Ok It would appear having java running while performing the update is what buggered it up, we are all happy now.
I got a lot of help from the java-dev mailing list. Turns out rerunning the SecUpd2005-002 security update did the job, someone on the list also suggested running "sudo update_prebinding", which will sort the java issues as well, I can't confirm this as I think I ran the update,erm I was a wee bit pissed - something I can not recommend.

Oh a different note just got back from the Swans v Crows - go the crows. Was a good game if not very long for those of us who were hungover :(

Apple has released 10.3.9, this should be a good thing, however, I updated and lost Java.
Quite a bad thing for a Java developer one would think.
The update didn't mention that it was going to touch Java so the explanation of what has happened is going to be interesting I think.
It would appear to have corrupted the binaries, as all the java related apps are buggered, java,javac, jar etc. All I get is a segmentation fault.
Not while I'm sure the level of support I get is going to be farking amazing I've been on hold to Apple care for the best part of 30 minutes and have heard the same messages about 60 times and Sledgehammer by Peter Gabreil about 10 times.

Well, I just watched the first race of the motogp season - on the web.
It is 35 Euros for the year and you get all the European races live. I can only stream the low quality version, the high stutters too much. Having said that, the low quality version did drop out a few times, the real player stream seemed more reliable than the windows media player. Both lacked the ability to play in the player rather than embedded within the browser which was a pisser.
The over all experience was some what poor, but I think it will be worth it, while the quality is low, it is good enough. It also means I get to see most of the races live, which is the main thing. Also channel / network ( whatever they call themselves) 10 are only now starting to show the delayed coverage, so I wouldn't be getting to sleep till 2:30 or 3, not clever.
I'll give it a few more rounds before deciding whether it was worth it or not, however I'm leaning towards yes, while the quality is low, seeing it live is more important.

Ok they are both looking happier now.
You do wonder, Ok I do, if Charles sing God save my mum, and Philip sings god save my Bint.
Ok it is just me then, well ok.

*cough*

Go Charles! They love each other, what is stupid and very Hollywood is the fact they pissed around for 20 years before getting married.

He does look a touch bored with it all. I guess they are old, so have weathered a lot, I would have thought there would have been a touch more emotion.

Bugger it all I had thought I was over moving back to Europe. I'm back to being not so sure, it would be easier if you all moved here, the weather is good, and quite frankly no one will notice the odd extra european around.

baaaaaaa bring on the bloody 2 hour journey between Sydney and London, it would make it all so manageable. A nice weekend home in fact.

One again, travel is evil, if we all sat in the same bloody place we wouldn't have this dilemma would we.

No I'm not serious just confused and pissed off with everything not being simple.

Remember when you break up with someone it is important to keep perspective.
That is why I'm here with a picture on the wall of the view out of our flat in London, listening to Nick Cave drinking Scotch :).
Oh another note, I suggested clay pigeon shooting for a team building exercise to my manager and got a very strange look. Baaaa it's not like me and fire arms are a bad mix, there haven't been any accidents while I have been round then!
I thought it would have got us kudos from the head office, which is in Dallas, where one would assume not owning at least one fire arm gets a black mark against your name.