Sayonara Swooping Bird!

Be the envy of your friends

Switching on the television as I woke up this morning, I'm presented
with an advertisement. Now you can SMS some number your name and get
its meaning. Then the advert ends somewhere along the lines: text now
and "be the envy of your friends!" Yeah right. I'm so so so envious
of you because you know the meaning of your name! Couldn't they come
up with something better than that? Maybe if the product were an
iPod. Geez... not that again! :)

Bicycle ODO

I left home on my bike this morning and saw that the ODO read 997KMs.  As the journey to work is about 7KMs, I knew it was going to roll over to about 4KMs.  Oh dear!  No camera!  Well, no real camera.  I don't really consider the crap lens thing at the back of my phone a camera.  But I took some shots anyway. 999KMs.  Half way to work though, it read 1000KMs.  What?!!?  I didn't know this thing had more than 3 digits!  Wow cool!  Yeah for Echo F7!  For the record, the ODO now reads 1005KMs.  Almost nearing Brisbane (about 1200KMs from Canberra)...

Penis Rock

On the drive down from the Corin Dam, there's a really interesting rock formation.



On closer inspection...


... I call it "Penis Rock"! It's not the length that matters, it's the width!

Really strong drug trafficker!

According to The Australian:

"Van was caught in transit at Singapore's Changi International Airport in December 2002, while flying from Cambodia to Melbourne, with 393kg of heroin strapped to his back and in his hand luggage."

And in case they fix it, here's a screen shot of the page.

Let the camera decide.

Another event.  Another set of photographs.  Or, rather, another set of blur images.  While it's true that the colours turn out better if in a dimly lit environment with the flash off, without a steady camera, all you're going to get is a blur image.  Sure it looks good on the tiny LCD on the camera.  Blow it up on the monitor and it's irritatingly blur.  If all you have are your hands to position the camera, and the camera decides that flash is necessary, let it flash!

Swooping Bird

Went cycling to Mitchell this afternoon and got wacked on the helmet by a magpie again! This happened along Flemington Road. On the way back, I spotted this sign...

Google Calendar

I love reading back dated articles that try to predict the future.  Here is one that starts with " It's been an open secret among entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that Google (Quote, Chart) would launch Google calendar in October."   Hmm... it's now November and http://calendar.google.com still redirects to the main Google page.  Ha ha.  What an open secret.

Then again.  How would calendar.google.com look like?  Gmail is so refreshingly different from all the web based email clients before.  So different that I initially found it foreign and didn't really like it.  But that's all changed after some re-education.  You don't need folders!  Labels are better because the same email can be sorted into various labels.  That was the first step of the education.  Next step was that you don't need to sort everything.  Just search for it!  Gmail's search is so fast!  Now I only use labels with filters to move stuff I know I don't want to read immediately.  The filter just labels it, and archives it.  Archive?  That's another concept to learn.  I found it to be such a good concept that I've created "Archive" folders for my other web mail accounts.  This is especially useful for ANU's crappy web based email client that gets so slow when the Inbox is full.

So what would the calendar be like?  Don't date your events!  Just dump it in and let Google Calendar decide.  Wow cool.. I could celebrate my birthday on different dates each year!  Hmm... you could say that's what we all do each year, since the year is a component of date.  Ok.  Bad example.  Oh oh... could it have a rolling view of the months instead of one screen per month?  That is, if a month ends on a Wed, then the next box, Thur, should continue with the next month.

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Aug
29 30 31 01 02 03 04 Sep
05 06 07 08 09 10 11

This would make it easier to plan the week that starts from 29 Aug.  And during the month of August, you won't miss the deadline on the 1st September because it would be on the same page!

French Fries

As I was finishing the fries I ordered from McDonald's last night, I poured out the last bits of potato.  Except the little charred piece of potato looked a lot like a fly!  French flies!  Poor little bugger.

Apple iPod

The Apple iPod slips easily into the dock and iTunes sees it instantly.  Well, after some lag.  Then as the two love birds sing their silent song, Moby crosses the wire, followed soon after by Dido and Glenn Miller.  So when Apple recently released, to incredible fanfare, its video-capable iPod with a munchkin-sized screen, the TV was sold. And recently, a Penn undergraduate finally got her iPod back yesterday, and all it took was an undercover sting operation by the Penn Police.

Ok.  That's enough babble to hide the fact that this post is not really about that.  Now that I've got a post titled Apple iPod, people will find my blog!

Do you realise that not a day passes with some news about the Apple iPod?  Simply search Google News for "iPod" and the list is virtually endless.  This is obsession!  The whole world has gone crazy over the iPod.  How cool is that!