Is there anything better than discovering you haven't read Penny Arcade! for a few days, wooo. Dads birthday today, happy birthday Dad.

Righto, I finally got round to putting a new version of Cave up, fixed a few bugs and added support for colour displays.

We had Zoe and Vinney over for christmas on the weekend, had a huge christmas lunch, including pudding and presents, it was cool. Then on sunday we went to the SCG to watch the Sydney Swans(they play AFL), it was a good game. The AFL crowd seems a lot more relaxed than crowds at other types of footy, more family and a good time rather than getting trashed and kicking the crap out of each other. After the game we went for a few pints at the Lord Dudley, which calls itself an "Old English Style Pub", cool place.

Ok, I think I want an Apple more than ever, I seem to get windows updates daily and every other day there is a new version of redhat. I'm aware that 'update often' is a wonderful coding mantra, but come on, so is writing stuff that works before releasing it, and possibly not just releasing it with a GUI tweak and slapping a new version on it.

Was having a nose round Rich T's site and found the kittens which I hadn't seen for a while, narf.

Oooooooo I had forgotten about this, until now, I am reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. I have just read a review and agree that being set in the present scared me a bit, but so far it seems Brilliant, with the one exception that you can tell when someone writes about an area that they haven't lived in, like calling Camden, Camden Town, ummmm yeah, it is the correct name, but noone calls it that, do they, cough,cough, no.

So I know everyone who reads this loves bikes, so this and of course this will be of Immense interest to all of you. Go go Ducati.
We got back from the UK on sunday after getting pissed around by the BA staff at Heathrow, I mean how the hell can you just walk out without telling anyone, they should have all been fired. Anyway, Qantas were good and got our plane out about 4 hours late. So its ya ya Qantas, Booo Boooo BA, but then with the Rail network and the Tubes how they are one shouldn't expect the airways to be any better.
It was really good to catch up with everyone while we were over there, we are now missing everyone loads. I'm also missing Mr Dallaways new Lap top, As much as I dislike the idea of being tied to a sole company for my hardware and software, I really get sick of recompiling my kernel and reinstalling windows. I know that Apple isn't going to be the wonderous fix of all time, but I think it is a move in the right direction.

Found a good site for XML / Database information, what there is round etc, it can be found here, some of it seems a little out of date, booooo Xindice doesn't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.

Brought the Jack Johnson CD 'on and on'. Soooooooooooooooo relaxed, very cool, go buy it. And yeah its a bit hippy stoner.

Ok, so who has stolen all the beautiful people from Sydney. Last night on the way home and this morning on the way into work it was like being in freaksville Kentucky, not what you want first thing in the morning or last thing at night.

Ok this was going to be about my phone, but it looks at though they have upgraded blogger. and God damn it looks good. very slick. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm blogger. Ok so back to the phone, I've just been out and got the Data cable and it doesn't come with any fucking software, ummmm HELLO, it's a cable and a driver, I have to download the 25 MB of functionality from the website, cos that wouldn't fit on the CD, cos it already has a Colossal 33 Mb on it, baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Oh and there is a bloody 7250i , boooooooooooooooooo.

Weekend was good, went over to Zoe and Vinneys for dinner on saturday night, stayed the night and went for an enormous breakfast on sunday morning. The beach at Manly was beautiful, clear water, blue sky, amazing.

Ok I'm going to try moving my blog to archive monthly. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It has happened, been with them since he was 11, must feel a bit shafted really.

baaaaaaaa, people suck, crap trip to work this morning some freak on the bus who was a skinny arse white guy like me taking up 90% of the fucking seat and bouncing round like some mf on crack. Then some silly bitch on the train sitting in the aisle seat doesn't move over when I go to sit down so I have to push past her to get to the empty seat, fine my arse your face. What is with people and not just moving over or at least making it easy to for people to move past. Oh while I'm here I spent all sunday rebuilding Emma's laptop, backed everything up in 54 million places, used the recovery CD, updated all the XP updates. It was still dying sorry bitch style, so i rebuild it AGAIN, nooooooooooo xp updates and guess what happy as larry. Arse arse and more arse, anyway if you have a Compaq Presario 700 Series laptop with XP home, I wouldn't go doing any windows XP updates. Oh and before you say anything yes I have coffee.

Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa just lost my #%@#$@!$ blog before posting, user error, I blame lack of coffee. So again. Emmas birthday went well, popped over to Adelaide and stayed at the Peter and Joys new house, very nice, Emma got loads of cool presents and we ate and drunk far to much. We drove to Melbourne and had a quick look round, nice place, want to go back and have a proper look, well go to some bars and pubs :D. Ummmmm installed the new Ximian Desktop yesterday, hmmmmmm monkey hmmmmmmm, its very very very nice.

Ok, so I'm not, I'm unsure about others

NO NO, I invented unix, for fucks sake people.

Emma and I went to see The Matrix, it was good, maybe not as good as the first, although it could just be that your expectation level is higher, who knows, I'd go see it anyway. Very cool. Work, shite and cool at the same time, werid paradox. Also why doesn't everyone just agree with me it would be easier.

something to read later

I glad I didn't wait for the N-Gage