It’s been ages since I posted and this isn’t really news, but it’s fun… Go on, destroy this website!
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holidaze
Norman Bay, Wilson’s Prom We got back from Wilson’s Prom on Friday and still haven’t accepted the fact that the holiday is over. It was blissful! For people who don’t know Wilson’s Promontory, it is the southernmost tip of the Australian mainland, so isn’t necessarily the first place you think of for a beach holiday, …
I don’t want a pickle…
…just wanna ride on my motor sickle – at least that’s how the Arlo Guthrie song went. Yes, my big new year’s present to myself is a motorbike. Not a great big prestige mid-life crisis motorbike, but a small, slightly gutless and not very exciting ‘commuter’ bike, (a Honda CB250). Still, it’s exactly what I …
there were fireworks
we don’t usually do the ‘stay up to see the new year in’ thing, but this year some good food, good wine and good company kept us going along easily… and it was worth the wait. Melbourne is pretty flat, but our friends have a second storey balcony and their house is perched on the …
on blueberry hill
today was warm, so we headed down the coast to Point Lonsdale – our current favourite destination. It has a combination of good snorkelling, some rockpools to ramble around and a couple of reasonable coffee shops. Anyway, the snorkelling was great – there were plenty of fish, one good stingray and a Leafy Sea Dragon, …
Crap service, Crap workmanship
In Chinatown the other day, crossing the road when I spotted this one. I really don’t know that there’s anything more to say. [edit] you just wouldn’t believe it… I wonder if he’s related? Thomas Crapper at wikipedia and snopes.
the heat is on…
Yoiks, it’s hot all of a sudden! 8:40pm and the WeatherPixie says it’s still 35°c. There is a storm building on the radar, but it’s about 200km. away so it’ll be three hours before it gets here, even if it doesn’t miss us. Today was my last day at work, I’m not going back until …
name that tune
B3ta regular chthonic (corrected spelling – sorry!) has built a brilliant online version of name that tune. There are only two problems: one is that it uses windoze media player which sucks, the other is that it hilights what sad musical tastes I have. I got 10 out of 10 for Steely Dan and Jethro …
some funny stuff…
OK, here are a couple of pages which made me laugh: the worst album covers of all time and a car recovery that didn’t go to plan.
Yum!
Here’s another little site I’ve just completed. This time for friends with an exceptional chinese restaurant: Shanghai Ling. The food at ShanghaiLing is unlike anything you’ll get at your more familiar ‘Cantonese’ restaurants – there’s a spicy freshness that keeps us coming back again and again. Also, they do the best tofu I’ve ever had …
trees
This is only a very small job, but it was quite fun to do. An excuse to go back to the old days of repeating background images. The site is for a fella who runs a ‘Tree Consulting Service’, that is: he doesn’t consult trees, he consults with the people responsible for dealing with trees… …
we’re going dynamic!
I’ve recently been lucky enough to participate in the recommendation of a Content Management System for the University of Melbourne. In the process I learned a little about CMSs so I thought it was about time I tried one out myself. I didn’t want to try Mambo. Partly because I knew people on the original …