Now I thought this video was another typical funny take on Apple, and Steve Jobs in particular. However the social commentary embedded in this video makes it WORTH watching. A very funny ending to this video. Now if only Dubya would watch this one!

I’m finally in a job where I can get to use Solaris close to 100% of the time. Goodbye, Au Revoir, Arrivederci Windows 2003 Server. Hello, Bonjour, Ciao lovely UNIX!. Oh yeah so I started a new job with CGI today. Technical Architect. Very business sounding, but a good role!

What a neat thing. Yet again another AWESOME use for quicksilver. The comma is a shortcut to add selected documents/files/objects to a stack, which you can then do with what you will. Check this 60 second or so video out on The Merlin Show. HOWTO: Quicksilver: The Comma Trick. Windows users: you have NO IDEA what you are missing. PS: Enjoy Vista

I am currently travelling. and am in Adelaide this week; Flying with Qantas. Besides getting up at 3am, all is good with today. I have started eating at 3 hourly intervals, smaller meals, in an attempt to get my metabolism kickstarted. This is still on a calorie intake 20% less than my Base Metabolic Rate (approx. 2100 per day). Combine this with my jogging, and I should see some results over the next few months.

I was playing around with a side project of mine, a web site in Joomla, and I added some XSLT to allow users to get directions in the Google maps component of this particular Joomla site. Besides the fact that I’m enjoying playing around with this CMS, I am also learning new things. One of them was the fact that I discovered you can now get driving directions for Australian addresses in google maps now!

I went for a walk today, and it turned into a jog. Total distance about 4.59km (according to my GPS). I think this was the first time I have run for exercise in about 8 years, and the first time I have exercised in weeks. It feels good, and I think I will be doing this each day!

I thought people understood this simple premise. You write your code to the standard, not to the browser. The browsers then adhering to the standard display the code correctly, or lay it out based upon the chosen style. Why in this day and age are Telstra/Bigpond NOT doing this? I am a customer, and nearly all their web based products MANDATE the use of a single browser; i.e. they write their code to a platform.

I was on a Virgin Blue flight today. Last month all my flights had been on Qantas. I have noticed a difference in the way the cabin crew act. The Virgin Blue staff behave less “professionally” than the Qantas staff. On this particular flight, the things that occurred; some of which were funny, and some of which would have been embarrassing to the person affected; are: A cabin crew member asked a young lady to blow into a straw attached to a breathalyzer, before serving her wine she ordered.

I rang nintendo today and it was very painless to order my free wiimote strap replacements. They asked for the console serial number, the number of wiimotes, and told me to keep my old straps to send back. They will include a return envelope for me. Painless, quick, and finally we will soon be able to use our wiimote with straps again… It feels very unsafe swinging these things around without straps.

So it finally happened… The strap on my Wiimote broke whilst playing Wii Sports on the Nintendo Wii. With luck, we have no broken television or anything else. Lets hope Nintendo will replace these.