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Leura Dairies

Last weekend we celebrated Christmas at Leura Dairies, an award winning eco retreat in the Blue Mountains (although there’s nothing eco about my 45 minute showers), a very similar trip to the one I wrote about 4 years ago to the day. Doesn’t time fly! Here is Amy

Stop Worrying, Love the Bomb

Last night I watched the film “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” a film by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers. I added this film to our DVD rental queue after watching The Life and Death of Peter Sellers which was my favourite film

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Bali Shanti Shanti

This winter/summer whatever you want to call it, Amy and me went to Bali for our holidays. Bali is a fairly small island which is part of Indonesia. It is really a tourist mecca but not in the bad way that most European holiday destinations suffer from – Kuta is

Fat Finger

At around 2pm today a broker somewhere decided that the value of QBE shares was $0.01 rather than $22.90, a decision which meant the companies market cap would have totalled around $8 million rather than the $20.19 billion that it was previously. Checkout the ASX 100 Dip

Looking Looking

We are having a wonderful time in Bali so far we have been to some fantastic beaches and sights. Yesterday we had a ride on an elephant called Phoebe and I had a brush with Ebola as a monkey climbed onto my face at monkey forest in Ubud. Today we

Bali!!!

We are having a fantastic time nice weather nice people and some seriously big waves! We are enjoying a cold drink in a little bar off the main beach right now.

I Met the Walrus

This is a fantastic animation of Jerry Levitan’s conversation with John Lennon that has won a lot of prizes for best animation at various film festivals. Here’s the trailer for it – [flv:http://s3.amazonaws.com/G2007/walrus_trailer.flv 640 360] What the full version at YouTube

BhangLassi Launch Party

Thursday night was BhangLassi’s Organge EP Launch Party. It was a fantastic night with the biggest turn out ever. I was pleased to go as I scored a copy of the EP, my favourite tracks are “Four Degrees” (watch live version in High Definition) and “The Brotherhood’s Gone”

Party Weekend

This weekend we had two 30th birthday parties on the same night, which invariably lead to having a super hang over, mostly thanks to a Dry Gin Martini I thought I’d try. The first 30th party was one of Amy’s work mates. It was on a boat that

Babycino

Last weekend for the Queens Birthday we went to Brisvegas and the Gold Coast for Cooper’s 2nd Birthday. We visited Burleigh Heads and stayed at Amy’s parents beach unit there. The sea was very calm but the coastal erosion from the week before was very bad, with the

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kill -9 (one for the geeks)

A lot of time at University was spent playing around with Unix, reading UNIX Network Programming Volumes One AND Two. I still have those books, they pretty much taught me how the internet really works and still believe anyone who hasn’t read them still wouldn’t really understand or

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Tasmania HD

Here is a little video knocked together of our Trip to Tasmania last weekend – Also, if you have the time check out the Vice Guide to North Korea a 14 part (about 30 minutes in total) documentary of Shane Smith getting into North Korea. It is a fascinating insight into

King Billy

Last weekend Amy and I got cheap flights to Tasmania. Where is Tasmania? You may ask. It is a small island located in the bottom right hand corner of Australia as you look at in on a map. I’ve added a picture of Australia and a reference for locating

Bowls UL

This weekend was Stu’s birthday and for it we celebrated with two games of bowling at King Street Wharf, which is on the Darling Harbour side of Sydney on the trendy wharf. It was the same crew as the trip to Melbourne so it was a great reunion. 21st

BhangLassi HD

BhangLassi filmed at the Cat and Fiddle in Balmain on the 10th April 2008. The band will be launching their new EP. “Orange” on the 10th July at the Excelsior – so get down their to get your copyas its sure to sell out in no time. This is a first

Comments are Back!

After an extrodinarily long time without comments on the blog (thanks to 10,000 spam messages and akismis not really picking them all up) you can now add comments thanks to a system called disqus which will hopefully end spam, here’s a screenshot of it in action – Welcome back

T-Bone BBQ

This weekend T-Bone organised a BBQ at his place in Chatswood. It was great weather for it and Chris has a webber BBQ which was my first one. T-Bone Webber Style It reminded me very much of the BBQs had in England, as this one involved coal and fire lighters,

Starbourne

Last weekend we went to Melbourne to celebrate Simone hitting the big three zero. Being in my mid-twenties it was an incredible experience of things to come for me in the distant future. The Gang Amy and I flew down early in the morning on jetstar, a cheaper airline that

Twit!

Future of the internet is here! Twinkle is a new application for the iPhone that lets you see who is using twitter within a range of km of where you are, it uses your current mobile mast position to roughly locate you. Not only will it let you find new

Lars and Biking

This weekend we went to Newtown again to visit some of the cool shops that we saw when we went out for dinner the weekend before. It has some fantastic furniture shops at a 3rd of the price of other ones you visit in malls. It also has a wide

Save Planet Earth One kW/h At a Time

As my parents “jolly well” know, I have a bad habit of leaving lights on. Even writing this now it’s obvious I’ve left the hall light on, serving no purpose but to make my life a little bit easier when I walk through to the kitchen a bit

Grand National

This Saturday we went to Bondi Junction, Manly to Bondi Junction Mall is a 40km round trip that costs approximately $0.50 a kilometer based on the $3.40 bridge toll, $5 eastern distributor toll and $11 parking plus petrol! In 2015 someone will read this and will laugh at

Best Posts Wordpress Widget

I seem to be on a bit of a role in regards to wordpress widgets. I notice with the ever increasing amount of entries on the blog, the more inaccessible some of the content was becoming. This sucks a bit and a I want people to be able to see

Easter Air

Easter 2008, a break from the normal ritual of going to far North NSW we headed to Fingal Bay instead. Fingal Bay, is a bay about 3 hours drive North of Sydney, slightly south of Seal Rocks. The scenary up there reminded us all of the television series LOST as

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iPhone Unboxing

My $99 Nokia phone starting cutting out of phone calls after about 30 seconds, it was a bit frustrating to say the least. So I decided I would get the jesus phone but would wait for the official version to arrive here in Australia. I waited, waited some more and