Archive for June, 2006

Monday, 19th June, 2006

Top Class TV

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has finally made it’s way onto television here in Australia. Praise be, and let us rejoice.
This now justifies the extra twenty bucks a month I spend on Foxtel that I ponied up a year and a half ago expecting to see Mr Stewart and his cohorts, and it will [...]

Sunday, 18th June, 2006

Lazy Sunday

Today was almost a perfect day. It started with a crushing victory in the first round of the Wakehurst Men’s Doubles championship (followed by a close loss in the second semi final).
On returning home I managed to spend half an hour snoozing on the sofa whilst listening to some quality sounds on my stereo [...]

Sunday, 11th June, 2006

I Live in the Back End of the World

Why? Because the start of the British Grand Prix has just been announced (as in, we will show the start in about half an hour) on Channel Ten but I know that it finished about ten minutes ago and what the result is. Damn you broadcast television.

Thursday, 8th June, 2006

What World Cup?

Apparently there’s a World Cup starting in a couple of days. My only contribution is to be slightly miffed when JFGP insists that the game is called soccer [1]. It isn’t, it’s football.
Regardless, I’m generally fairly oblivious to the round ball game, and can sum up my sentiments about the next five weeks as – [...]

Sunday, 4th June, 2006

Photographic Presentations

Thanks to the nice folks at Download Squad I’ve discovered Splashr.com a nice little service that creates presentations from your photos stored at Flickr. It’s really quite good, here are a couple of samples;

A selection of photos of Alexander
Oliver poses for the camera
Some people that I work with

Saturday, 3rd June, 2006

Back Home

OFB is home safely from the hospital. The boy and his mother are a bit tired but otherwise all seems to be well.