Category: General

I now have some stats of my site…. its interesting to see that somehow my site appears to be being read from outside my close knitt friends.

A few months ago we rented The School of Rock on DVD and watched it. I have to say it was a pretty good movie and I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of my love for rock’n’roll music. One of the key bands they talk about was Led Zeppelin so since then I have been listening to them quite a lot in the car and I have really been rediscovering them. What a great sound they had, with the growling guitar, the smooth baselines that walk all over the place and Robert Plant’s fantastic vocal.
I’ll give them 5 stars (*****) for still being so fantastic today, and not sounding dated at all imho.

A great idea and good use of a modern medium. zoom

Bluetooth headsets are potentialy a good thing, but right now they are so stupid looking. I’ll gladly use one when I’m on the phone, but I won’t wear it if I’m not on the phone….. why do some people just wander around wearing the things? Very odd.

An Introduction to Buddhism may also be of interest for those seeking enlightenment.

I’m not quite sure why, but I had this urge to watch Monkey Magic. I was watching episode one when the narator was talking about some of Buddha’s teachings. I stumbled uppon this site that I found interesting.

I don’t know why, but the range of contact management software that is available is crap imho. As far as I know, there is Act!, Maximizer and Goldmine at the bottom end of the spectrum. For one, none of them integrate with IMAP servers. Act! doesn’t even work as a relational database for gods sake, and to top it all off, it uses a propriatry database. I long for a decent contact manager, surely its not that hard to write?

I think last night was the first night I really slept right through the night since I got back from over seas. I felt very refreshed this morning.

I was amazed to discover that you can now buy 0.4Tb hard disk drives. How much longer before we start measuring hard disk drives by the terabyte?

Yesterday we ventured to Haberfield. For those in the dark, Haberfield is the real little Italy of Sydney. I know you can find all the glitzy expensive Italian restaurants in Leichard, but real Italians do their shopping in Haberfield.
My original plan was to get up early and head down there on my own or with Tate and just quickly buy some stuff for the bbq later that night, but as everyone was up, we (Hind, Tate, Zac and Tamara and Maissa and me) decided to go together, have some breakfast there and get the shopping at the same time.
When we arrived, there was this very nice looking cafe which we decided to have breakfast in, but we needed a slightly bigger table in the window to fit us all, so we just moved one of the tables, but the waitress barked “you can’t move that table, there won’t be room to get through”. So we asked her where we could sit and the only option she gave us was in the back of the restaurant. We looked, changed our minds and decided to sit outside. Once we got outside we decided unanimously that the hag of a waitress had put us all off and we went across the road for some awesome bacon and eggs. I know its not very italian, but they did include an italian sausage on the plate.
Anyway, we wandered around after breakfast and bought some shopping including some lovely white fluffy ricotta cheese, some freshly greated parmesan, some delicious tomatoes, cuecumbers and basil, and some lovely italian sausages which we cooked up on the bbq that night. I have to say they were realy bloody good and I think I’m going to have to go to Haberfield next weekend to get some more.
Oh… that reminds me, on the same night, I finaly used up the last of the charcoal I bought ages ago. Thats like 20kg of charcoal gone in a few months. I must get some more.