G2007

Manly Brisvegas

Last weekend we celebrated Amy’s mums 60th up in Brisbane. We stayed at Amy’s sisters house to spend some time with their new baby Zara and Wink the dog – Wink and Zara We spent the day in Brisbane and visited the Modern Art Museum to see the Andy

Cave 2008

Last year we hit The Cave and it was brilliant! So Rach organized it again but a few months earlier which made it a little bit warmer! A bigger group than last time went and we had some great fun. On Saturday we did a walk in the Blue Mountains

kison

Wagamama's

Last week we saw Daniel Kitson perform “The Impotent Fury Of The Privileged” which was a brilliant comedy / lesson in life adventure at the Factory Theatre. I won’t go into too much detail about it for fear Kitson will come across this blog entry and hate what I have

east sydney

Upstairs at the Fitz

Last weekend was Mel’s 30th Birthday party, it was celebrated in true Woolloomooloo fashion with a right old knees up at Le Old Fitzroy. Bhanglassi were on hand to produce some tunes. The party was great as the theme was “wear something on your head” – Amy used a wig

Black Hawk Down

This is a resurrected post from moving hosts (thanks to Google Cache) – We recently got some new technology and games as valentines day gifts, Amy got one of these cool gadgets – iPod Nano – Playing Seal Rocks Movie I converted the seal rocks video into ‘MP4′ H.264 video format for

Heli-Surf and El Viejo

This Saturday was the Redbull Heli-Surf Race, which was previously postponed due to bad weather. Which is funny because it was pretty bad weather for it yesterday as well! The idea of the heli-surf was the first person to paddle to a buoy out to sea on a surf board

BhangLassi Live in Leichhardt

The lassi played a last minute gig on Tuesday night at the “Bald Face Stag Hotel” in “Leichhardt” which were winners for “worst named hotel” and “hardest suburb to pronounce” consecutively in 2007. As it was on a Tuesday night and there was not much notice there wasn’t much

GBP vs. AUD

Following on from my previous excitement of USD vs. AUD comes the rather sad news that the sterling is at a ten year low against the Australian Dollar – GBP vs. AUD 1997 – 2008 The last time the pound was as weak as this was 1997. The USD is also the

Slow News Day

What has the world of professional journalism come to when the top story on news.com.au, a Rupert Murdoch owned news website, publishes a story about an argument on wikipedia in relation to the existence of a page setup for Corey Delaney, the kid from Melbourne who had a

Getting Involved with the Community

As I currently work from home, I spend a lot of time in the local suburb which is now the set of Out of the Blue, a Neighbours replacement for the BBC. The local news paper has a section called ‘quickview’ which allows people who have not heard of the

England Video

Here is a short video of all the best bits of the trip to the UK, excluding meeting up with old friends as I didn’t have the camera with me when we did that! Also a slightly larger video format as a test [flv:http://s3.amazonaws.com/G2007/

A Swell New Year

Happy New Year! A low pressure system off of Queensland has brang brought a bucket load of swell down to Manly. We went down to the Bower on New Year’s Eve and I filmed some footage of the surfers who were out in the fairly large swell that day.

Best of 2007

The classic post, see also – Best of 2004, Best of 2005 and Best of 2006. Album of the Year – MIA – Kala Sadly it pipped Smashing Pumpkin’s Zeitgeist to the post, actually it didn’t stand a chance. This South East London / Sri-Lankan artist is keeping it real and has

Merry Christmas 2007

From Amy and Gary Picture taken at Compton Verney on a very cold day!

Prague Live

A short video of Prague to get a feel of what the place is like in motion, set to some classic Czech style music, I think – [flv:http://s3.amazonaws.com/G2007/Prague.flv 560 306] Or download a higher quality WMV (17meg) of the video for a crisper experience.

Town Buddies

Last night was a trip out with my mates from the village, it was really nice as there was a good group and some faces I didn’t expect to see namely Chris and Ian and Mark. First off we met at the Golden Bee Weatherspoon pub which doesn’t

Anhdres’ Christmas Labels

This is something you are not going to want to miss out on this Christmas. Andres has created some Christmas labels for your gifts. We printed them out and have come in super handy, not to mention look really cool – The Andres Touch From Andres’ blog – “I draw the little

Star of Prague

On our second day in Prague we hit the tourist walk which took us to all the major sites of the city. It is actually quite a small place so only takes a day to walk around, we even got to go inside a castle! We headed out of a

Skoda Central

UK airport security has reached “ridiculous” on the threat level stages, you are only allowed to take on board one bag and anything you have that has 125ml of liquid must go into a plastic bag and if your hand luggage weighs more than 10kg then back to the check

London Safari

We took a visit to West Midlands Safari Park with my parents which was fun, it was the old style drive through zoo, where you are in there with the tigers and other creatures which just the protection of the car. Here is Amy’s best picture of a cow

Marks and Sparks

We have arrived in England and it has been very nice, the first day it was my job to sort out the loft much to my parents delight – Mum in the Loft The next day Amy and me went into Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon for some shopping, it was a

Remastered

Goodbye China

Well goodbye China hello England! There is something very strange about waking up in a hotel room in Shanghai on the East Coast of China and then going to bed in a little village in the middle of England the same night. I’ve mostly been in the loft packing

Hangzhou?

Today Amy and I got a private tour of Hangzhou, not because we wanted one, it just happened to be no one else was on the tour with us! Hangzhou is about 200km outside of Shanghai and is the capital of Zhejiang province, I’d link to the wikipedia page

Chinese Shake

“Let China sleep, for when she wakes the world will shake” – Napoleon Bonaparte. China certainly seems to be shaking! We boarded out China Eastern flight from Sydney to Shanghai. It was a good flight and it had some nice food. The only thing that separated it from any other airline

2190 photos into 90 seconds

Using a modified JMF JPG to Movie, ImageInfo and RAD Video Tools – I created a way of getting all 2190 landscape aspect photos I took on my year out in Australia between May 2004 and May 2005 into a video. I modified the following file to support only one type