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If its not sharks

It’s a tsunami! NSW and Queensland beaches were closed and the Manly ferry suspended after 8.1 earth quake near the Solomon Islands – Beaches closed I went for an early morning surf in rubbish on-shore winds in 1ft conditions water temp was beautiful and visibility was amazing, I remember

Earth Hour

Sydney was plunged into darkness (kind of) at 19h30 on Saturday night for one hour in an effort to raise awareness about global warming for an event called Earth Hour. After ensuring all our lights were switched off at home, Amy, Nancy, Marcus and I drove up to North Head

Foothills of the Blue Mountains

Rach and Mike planned a trip to camp at Glenbrook, one of the first towns you hit whilst leaving Sydney and heading towards the Blue Mountains (see the geotag at the bottom of the entry). It is pretty cool because its only 1.5 hours from Manly but still has

Adobe Apollo

Adobe have a pre-alpha release of their Apollo framework available for download from their site. From Adobe’s website – “Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build

BhangLassi Sydney Gigs

BhangLassi, the band that has been described as sounding like “Patti Smith hit by a projectile with a dash of early Jethro Tull and a smidgen of The Commodores” are putting some sweet tunes out for the masses to hear in Sydney 4th April Cat and Fiddle Balmain 18th April

Birthdays All Round

Billy Corgan, Marcus, Saint Patrick and the Sydney Harbour Bridge were amongst the birthday and festive celebrations this weekend. ABC had a great documentary on the bridge, it is an interesting bridge due to its design at the start of the 20th century which has the capacity today for 8

No Touch Down

Good to see Nancy and Marcus are back in ‘stralia, Marcus sorted with a job within 24 hours of arriving which shows the tech market in Australia is pretty good at the moment. I wonder how long it will last,hopefully forever! Yesterday I took this photo from the balcony

Thunder and Lightning II

A little video filmed last night from the balcony of the approaching thunder storm, not quite as amazing as the one in India but a bit closer –

Anhdres’ Australia

The legend that is Andres has created an almost feature length movie of his and Yami’s trip to Australia last month. The video is 12.5 minutes in total so sit back and enjoy! [flv:http://anhdres.com.nyud.net:8080/video/australia.flv 640 480] From Andres – “What

Manly In Detail

No need to come to Manly anymore, you can see it in super high definition detail taken by the google plane! Below is a map of Manly, NSW. If you click the plus button twice you really get a sense of detail of this mega-rich persons garden near Shelly beach.

North Steyne Dolphins

Yesterday morning saw a small glassy 1-2ft swell coming through Sydney area, I got up early in the morning with Amy and went down to for a morning surf to wake myself up for the rest of the day. The water temp was lovely, 4 other guys were out along

Hunter Valentines Valley

This weekend Amy and I went to the Hunter Valley, we stayed in a little area called Lovedale, which was very fitting as Valentines was so close. I kept it a secret from Amy about the location and had to rely on the new google maps service in Australia which

Potts Point Party

Last night we went out to Amy’s friend Nathans 30th Birthday party at Soho Lounge in Potts Point. Lozza, Amy, Simone at Hugo’s Pizza First off we went to Hugos Pizza on Bayswater Road, it was really good pizza but an one hour wait for a table was

Farewell

We went to see Turandot Opera in the Domain last week which contain the classic ‘Nessun dorma’ aria, which you might have never heard of but if you heard it you would have if that makes sense. Opera in the Domain Last weekend we all went to the Ocean World,

NewsHutch.com

RSS / Atom syndication has been around for a while, it is an excellent method for keeping up to date with your favourite news sites, blogs, tech sites etc.. However, the problem I have been facing recently is how to look at all this information without it taking up half of

‘Stralia Day and Google Plane

It was Australia day today and lots of things go down in Sydney Harbour a fighter jet was doing some amazing manoeuvres over the Harbour. I managed to watch it fly towards me and got this photo – Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet On the other end of the scale

Christmas in Queensland

A bit of a delay in this post, I had to wait for my parents to come down to NSW from their trip to QLD before I got the photos as I forgot my camera on Christmas day. The day was spent at Amy’s sisters house in Brisbane, a

Hotendel

It has been about 40 degrees for the past few days, so this weekend we went to Coolendel (a camp site introduced to us by Rach and Mike) as it had 100% guarantee of spotting some form of native creature to Australia. It didn’t let us down – Wombats, wallabies

Argentina Arrival

Yami and Andres have arrived from Buenos Aires the other day and they have been very lucky to be blessed with beautiful sunny trip. To celebrate their arrival we had a true blue ‘stralian BBQ – BBQ!! They gave Amy a lovely Mate pot a bombilla and some Mate herbs to

Happy New Year

We spent a nice night in the Botanical Gardens – Fireworks over Sydney Firework video to be put up later!

Best of 2006

Hot on the heels of Best of 2004 and Best of 2005 comes Best of 2006!! Album of the Year – Bernard Fanning – Tea & Sympathy I bought the album for Amy for a special event. It is an excellent album with some great songs, one features in this video of

Kings vs. Razor Backs

Today was a long day, an 08h00 start for a surf and whilst Amy and the rest of the girls went to see Robbie Williams in concert the boys went for a trip to Sydney Superdome for the basketball derby game of the Sydney Razorbacks vs. Sydney Kings. Stu, Marcus,

STIRR Sydney

T-Bone, Marcus and I went to STIRR Sydney last night. It was an event for people who work in emerging technologies / internet startups. It was a very interesting event, to begin with we all split into teams and had to come up an idea for a startup based on random

Birthdays, Boats, Bondi and Booze

Sorry for the delay in updates just been very busy recently! Finally I get to do an entry and it is Friday night, the reason for being in is that I’m too tired from the corporation I currently work at had its Christmas party yesterday afternoon, we drank loads

Ewe2 Vertigo!

On Monday night, Amy, Simone, Stu and myself went to see U2 play at Telstra stadium in front of a massive crowd. It was an excellent gig and Kanye West was there to do the warm up, Amy is a big fan of him so it was a nice start