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USD vs. AUD

Time to go shopping in America, the exchange rate between Australian Dollar and US Dollar is almost 1:1 would be great if the AUD became more valuable than USD, I think we’d go on a spending spree! USD vs. AUD 2007

Flying Lesson

Amy got me a flying lesson for my birthday last year, I finally got around to taking it. The weather was prefect for it, so I made my way over to Bankstown airport. VH-IIJ Cessna 152 The instructor got me to do a bit of the taxi, to steer the

Manly Shark Sighting on Google Maps

UPDATE – LOOKS LIKE DONALD WAS WRONG THIS IS NOT A SHARK Donald Price wrote into the Manly Daily to tell them he found a shark on Google Maps. I didn’t even have to put in the coordinates to find it once you know what you are looking for – Manly

Taryn and Wade in the City

Taryn and Wade came to visit us for a long weekend and to see some of the sites and sounds that the city of Sydney had to offer. Amy, Wade and Taryn at Bower Restaurant for breakfast We had a Manly day and toured up the Northern Beaches all the

Nancy and Marcus Affiance Party

This weekend we celebrated the engagement of Nancy and Marcus at the Manly Pacific Hotel right opposite Manly Beach. I imagine you have picture of a nice summers day with the sun shining and the golden sand of the beach meeting the beautiful blue water of the ocean. Unfortunetly that

Caramel Slice Food Review

Welcome to the very first G2007 Food Review. This series are all foods that I have cooked myself. I’ve got quite a sweet tooth so I’d like to start off with one you may be familiar with when visiting a coffee shop anywhere in the world – the Caramel

Gale Force Sydney

Update June 9: Deadman’s, the bit which I was photographing and didn’t even realise started to get a bit better on Sunday, here’s Kai Otton looking like he’s about to eat it – (C) Pipemonkeys.com Marcus got some wicked pictures from Deewhy on Sunday as well.

Google Developer Day Sydney

This morning Marcus and I went to Google Develper Day Sydney (although we made it into Google Developer Morning due to work) for Google’s first ever developer conference, which is taking place all around the world with Sydney being the first (for timezone reasons). The presenters we saw were

Winning Notification

I got this email today – WINNING NOTIFICATION The prestigious Microsoft has successfully organised and sent out Sweepstakes marking the 2007 anniversary. Microsoft is running an e-mail beta test. Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 08795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/07 and drew the

Burger’s Australia

My old work buddy Matt was over in ‘stralia very recently, I worked with Matt all the way back in 2001. We invented ‘the sandwich game‘ a very early day blog post from 2003, where we had to buy the cheapest lunch around London. I was always at a disadvantage

Melbourne fantastic

A long while ago Amy and I got cheap tickets to go to Melbourne for the weekend. I have never been to Melbourne before so was really excited about going. We flew Qantas as well so we got to use the brilliant lounge facilities (can’t go back now). Qantas

Going for Broke

We celebrated Simone’s birthday in the Hunter Valley at a lovely little rustic house in the very small village of Broke. We arrived in the evening to a wonderful reception of soup and smiling faces – Happy Smilers The next day we got on a big red bus that drove

Ali Married

Congratulations to Ali a developer friend who got married in Sydney recently, and somehow got it onto the BBCPersian website – Ali and wife on BBC News Checkout the Article, no idea what it says.

BhangLassi Live at the Hopetoun - Update

Update! Here’s a clip that I filmed for the guys at the Hopetoun last Wednesday – Geezers and Breezers at the Hopetoun BhangLassi played a full on live set at the Hopetoun Hotel in Sydney on Wednesday night to a packed out audience. Cheers went up when Geezers and Breezers

MTV - People of the Light

Amy has won tickets through Qantas for us to go to see the MTV Music Awards in Sydney next weekend which is great news! I thought I’d do a bit of research on the internet about what goes down at the MTV Music Awards. What I found was a

Germany +1

Toni, a friend of mine who I lived with and looked after a cat for in Sydney once, has had got a brand new baby daughter called Emma!! Baby Emma Congratulations Heike and Toni!!

Geotagging

“Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude and place names.” – Wikipedia. I have begun the fun process of

Astrophotography from Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains are still a bit too close to Sydney to get really decent night shots, but I gave it a go anyway as there was no moon and it was a clear night, they came 86 second exposure and 127 second exposure Not as good as the Myall

Remastered

Cave Man

Rach’s 30th Birthday was celebrated in true “rach ‘n’ mike” style with a hard core camp in a cave up the Blue Mountains. Yes, that is right, a cave! To get a sense of the size of it here’s Mike on the rope swing – We arrived early on

Easter in the Bay

This Easter a group of us went up to Northern NSW for a nice little get away from Sydney, such has been the Australian tradition last year and the year before. However this year rather than staying in Yamba we managed to score a nice little house in Byron Bay

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