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Goodbye Vitara

Ahh the Vitara is gone. Sold to a nice guy about my age from Byron Bay currently living in Coogee, although he is moving to a beach somewhere to work on boats. So the little car has gone to a good new home I am sure of it. I created

Surf Update - Wave of my Career and England

These are what the waves on the North Shore were looking like this morning, perfect glass sets with a little offshore wind – Possibly DY – Credit: RealSurf.com Faisel and myself headed down to Manly and it looked beautiful, I could see a small left hander going off in the middle

Surf Update / Damage

Rach and myself went to Manly today for a little bit of a surf. The waves were very pleasing, visible rolling sets some getting to head height. All right handers, which is good practice for me, although the ride is not the same. We recently had a storm and some

Paris Hilton

When you type in paris hilton at google image search, the last thing you want to see on the first page is a naked man wearing a wig with underarm hair – Hold on I recognise that guy…. Sorry Ian, my fault. I don’t suppose many people type in paris

New Skateboard

The reality of not being able to live near a beach in London has dawned upon me. So after a 8 year break, I have decided to take up skateboarding again. I’ve only had one go on it but fell off already, I was treating the turns like a

1989 Suzuki Vitara JX (4×4) 2D Softtop 5 speed manual 1590cc

For Sale * Just over 200,000kms * Unleaded * Green Slip until November 2005 * Pink Slip (5th April 2005) * Compact Disc Player (small problem with volume control) * Central Locking * Good Runner – never broken down on me * Visa Expiration forces sale * Located in Sydney, Australia $3500 ono Contact gbrewer@gmail.com or mobile

Mosaic 2007

Following from the last post. Here it is, Mosaic 2007. This application takes a directory of images and makes a new image from these images in a mosaic form. Similar to the banner on this page. My India Folder Output Preview Cyprus Holiday Folder Output Preview Prerequisites – .NET Framework 1.

Australia Mosaic

I am trying to create an application that creates a mosaic of all of my Australia pictures, here is my first try – Here is the code for it so far – Image i,v,t,thumb; //Bitmap b; Graphics g,rg; i=Image.FromFile(((imageFile)lstImages.Items[0]).FI.FullName); double

Google will owe me 1 Billion Dollars… One Day

27 million years have passed and it is approximately 27399265AD and it is late March and I have discovered the secret to eternal life and the world hasn’t crashed into the sun and nuclear war was avoided and aliens have not harvested the planet, http://billycorgan.info advertisements using

Kays Summer Collection

Found this picture on Jenni’s camera, thought it was good enough to be in a shopping catalogue –

Yamba Video

Here is the video I promised. It is a 20 meg download and is just under 6 minutes long. It contains spoonasound/pictures/zoom/surfing sections and is well worth it. Some cool music too – Right Click…Save Target As (requires sound)

Computer Geeks

Jorid and myself in my room with computers MSDN Australia rule, they put surf boards in their MSDN emails. For that reason alone I am going to the MSDN Update next month. –

Yamba Easter Trip

It is 07h00 on Thursday morning, I am planning to meet Fisel in one hour for the 9 hour drive to Yamba. I press the ‘snooze’ button on my alarm and wake up again at about 11h30. At 12h00 with the surfboards loaded on the roof I am at Fisel’

Wave Update

Yeah today was pretty big in Sydney (check out the second last picture – absolute nutter). Kelly Slater 6x world champion was surfing Fairy Bower (Manly/Shelly Beach point break) this afternoon in these conditions – If you’re wondering where I am I was at home nursing my slight soar throat.

Surf Update + Hawaii

This will be the last post of today I promise. Truth is I have a soar throat and don’t want to go to a smokey pub with the guys and make myself feel worse, especially as I have a 10 hour drive on Thursday to Yamba. I went to

Monty Hall Problem Revisited

Ok, so I found this site called lazyweb.org that invites other users to solve my problems (not in the ‘how do i land a girlfriend? / why can’t i stop eating toblerone?’ sense, but realistic ones that have an answer). My problem was my Monty Hall program results were

My Radio

I have added the little link on the right hand side that looks like this – If you click on it you will be able to listen to music that I like listening to. How clever is that? I just tried it and it play Elliott Smith, which ruled. The second

I heart Indian Bureaucracy

I am trying to register a .in domain name (India) – I am doing it through an Indian company, from which I used my international credit card (which I’ll probably regret). Anyway, nothing appeared to be happening so I sent them an email and added their ‘support chat’ to MSN.

It’s always better when we are together

Another excellent weekend in Sydney. It is annoying to think that these weekends are coming to an end very soon 🙁 Thursday night I met Andrew and Nohj (John backwards) to go and see Monster Stomp at the Metro. Monster Stomp are a local Sydney band that we saw at the

TechEd 2005 US and A Promo Video

Rory of Neopoleon fame and his mate Scott at Microsoft created a very funny video of themselves arguing about system design. We’ve all been there, check it out – Didn’t work? Download

Surfing Day

Faisel and myself made a video diary of our day at Freshwater Beach. This basically meant filming waking up to going back to sleep again. Its a full on 11 meg download but it is well worth it! If the video keeps stopping them download the video and watch it

Riding Giants

This is a film about the history of big wave surfing. From the good old days of Greg Noll surfing long boards on big waves to current day heros like Laird Hamilton flying down the face of Jaws from his tow-in. The film was really interesting, talking about the history

You know its been a good night when…

Faisel is punching my model flatmate in the stomach?!?!?! –

It had to happen sooner or later..

I got stung by a jelly fish. A bluebottle to be precise. And yes it is as painful as people say. I really only have my self to blame, there were bluebottles on the shore at Manly. The surf was pretty small but I got some really cool left handers

Forward Engineer SQL/Code Gen Tool (under development)

A little project I am working on in my spare time (like I have any) is an application to speed up the process of developing an initial application/web system. UML is a good place to start, design all your classes and their interactions in this and you are practically