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.

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.