Craving travel
Fur coats in North East Europe
Smoke and Diesel
Trance music with bubbly
Hum of the 747
The feel of the old
Streets of curve
Circus and Square
In the Fields
Yard
He longs to get away
Yearning
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Happy Birthday to Me
33 today, 33 today...
Ahh birthdays. I generally try to have the day off on my birthday and enjoy the day in some fun exciting or general selfish way but this year it falls on a Java MIDP (java software on the mobile phone) training course, which someone compared to a tax seminar, but which I compare to a great deal of fun....big geek that I am.
So it was that my birthday has come to pass and I have spent the day coding mobile phone versions of the FetchMeMovies DVD site, creating simple games for the phone and getting it to send SMS messages to itself.
The day started with wifey giving me the most wonderful hand knitted scarf that she had been secretly doing for ages (no photo yet but I'm sure Suze will post one). Then off to breakfast at Cafe Sweethearts for yummy pancakes with Oskar and Jasmine which was just lovely. Then Java training and back home to an enjoyable quick dinner and standard weeknight things. Oskar had made me a magnificant lemon cake which we've all just had small pieces of and he sang happy birthday to me and Jasmine managed to say "Habby Berdy" to me which made my night.
Oh and Suze gave me another present, she'd framed my Gold Finger poster so I'll have to find room in the office for it now.
A good day indeed, even if I have been weighed down a little by twits at work.
33 today, 33 today...
Ahh birthdays. I generally try to have the day off on my birthday and enjoy the day in some fun exciting or general selfish way but this year it falls on a Java MIDP (java software on the mobile phone) training course, which someone compared to a tax seminar, but which I compare to a great deal of fun....big geek that I am.
So it was that my birthday has come to pass and I have spent the day coding mobile phone versions of the FetchMeMovies DVD site, creating simple games for the phone and getting it to send SMS messages to itself.
The day started with wifey giving me the most wonderful hand knitted scarf that she had been secretly doing for ages (no photo yet but I'm sure Suze will post one). Then off to breakfast at Cafe Sweethearts for yummy pancakes with Oskar and Jasmine which was just lovely. Then Java training and back home to an enjoyable quick dinner and standard weeknight things. Oskar had made me a magnificant lemon cake which we've all just had small pieces of and he sang happy birthday to me and Jasmine managed to say "Habby Berdy" to me which made my night.
Oh and Suze gave me another present, she'd framed my Gold Finger poster so I'll have to find room in the office for it now.
A good day indeed, even if I have been weighed down a little by twits at work.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Patent Party
Woo hoo.
Today the US Patent office issued me with my second patent.
Its all about finding patterns in data such as things you have bought at a store and deriving links between the items e.g. This DVD is like this DVD.
I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing as it really is a very inventive patent and was really a breakthrough for me.
So...its patent party time and if I wasn't holding out from drinking until my birthday next week, I'd have some bubbly. So virtual cheers to me :-)
Woo hoo.
Today the US Patent office issued me with my second patent.
Its all about finding patterns in data such as things you have bought at a store and deriving links between the items e.g. This DVD is like this DVD.
I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing as it really is a very inventive patent and was really a breakthrough for me.
So...its patent party time and if I wasn't holding out from drinking until my birthday next week, I'd have some bubbly. So virtual cheers to me :-)
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
I love the sight of Aussie Yellow in the morning
Now that's more like it. Australians in Yellow in the early stages of Le Tour.
Congratulations Robbie!!!
It sounds like stage 3 was a nightmare with Ivan Mayo getting serious gravel rash from a nasty crash and loosing quite a bit of time. But unlike our friends OS...we'll have to wait until 6pm tonight to see the details.
Now that's more like it. Australians in Yellow in the early stages of Le Tour.
Congratulations Robbie!!!
It sounds like stage 3 was a nightmare with Ivan Mayo getting serious gravel rash from a nasty crash and loosing quite a bit of time. But unlike our friends OS...we'll have to wait until 6pm tonight to see the details.
Sunday, July 04, 2004
tick tick tick...
We've just watched the 60 minutes article about Mark French and his (and others within the AIS) drug taking or at least vitamin injecting.
This has been going on for around a month now with investigations and more investigations, culminating with the track team being announced late this week and a report coming out about it all on Friday.
So....my pundit 2 cents worth....
Injecting vitamins is NOT illegal it is NOT banned and while is not approved by the AIS code of conduct it is COMMON PRACTICE in Europe cycling and many elite sports. In Australia, we the sporting pubic, have a problem with Olympic atheletes injecting vitamins to get through 40 hour training weeks yet have no problem with AFL players getting injected with IOC BANNED DRUGS prior to matches and during the game to be able to get through injuries. This I don't understand.
Anyway.. our athelete inject vitamins and I have no problem with that. Illegal performance enhancing drugs are another matter...and that's what I think is the bigger issue with the Mark French saga.
60 minutes showed the selected Track team at the CA conference on Friday and asked them about drug taking and injections....ohhhhh dear.... what idiot at Cycling australia decided that it was ok for our Olympic atheletes to have to face direct questioning less than 2 months out from the Olympics......idiotic!!!!
And the result.......disaster. Shane Kelly and Jobie Daiyka looked like they were hiding something and Sean Eddie was tooo cool. Like the master mind of the group. God I hope it wasn't any of them taking eGH.
And Mark French.....well I think he is telling the truth. Injecting vitamins was stupid and he will pay the price but he is being hung out by the various organisations to cover their arses.
Drama drama. Mark - Best of luck and I hope we get to see you ride again soon.
We've just watched the 60 minutes article about Mark French and his (and others within the AIS) drug taking or at least vitamin injecting.
This has been going on for around a month now with investigations and more investigations, culminating with the track team being announced late this week and a report coming out about it all on Friday.
So....my pundit 2 cents worth....
Injecting vitamins is NOT illegal it is NOT banned and while is not approved by the AIS code of conduct it is COMMON PRACTICE in Europe cycling and many elite sports. In Australia, we the sporting pubic, have a problem with Olympic atheletes injecting vitamins to get through 40 hour training weeks yet have no problem with AFL players getting injected with IOC BANNED DRUGS prior to matches and during the game to be able to get through injuries. This I don't understand.
Anyway.. our athelete inject vitamins and I have no problem with that. Illegal performance enhancing drugs are another matter...and that's what I think is the bigger issue with the Mark French saga.
60 minutes showed the selected Track team at the CA conference on Friday and asked them about drug taking and injections....ohhhhh dear.... what idiot at Cycling australia decided that it was ok for our Olympic atheletes to have to face direct questioning less than 2 months out from the Olympics......idiotic!!!!
And the result.......disaster. Shane Kelly and Jobie Daiyka looked like they were hiding something and Sean Eddie was tooo cool. Like the master mind of the group. God I hope it wasn't any of them taking eGH.
And Mark French.....well I think he is telling the truth. Injecting vitamins was stupid and he will pay the price but he is being hung out by the various organisations to cover their arses.
Drama drama. Mark - Best of luck and I hope we get to see you ride again soon.
And it begins...
Early July means that the biggest yearly sporting event begins, Le Tour de France, and that means that Suzette and I will be glued to the TV at 6pm every night (or more likely a video after the kids go to bed) watching Stuey, Robbie, Baden, Brad and the others fire up around France. The last few years have been amazing for the Aussies and this year promises to be no different.
But....it was not to be today. Matt White followed in his wife's footsteps with some amazingly bad luck hitting him 2 hours before the start of his first race. While warming up he fell and broke his collar bone, putting him out of the race and doing nothing to help his Olympic preparation. Get well soon Matt and may this only spur you on to gold in Athens.
I hoping Jan and Tyler gets a win this year and Lance comes second or third. Who knows how it will go but it will be exciting.
Not wanting to be an ugly parent but I would love to see Jasmine or Oskar ride in Le Tour in the future. Especially as Oskar is named after a Swiss World Champ.
In other news, Suze and I spent about 5 hours doing final tweaks to Playground Finder so its just about ready to be pushed out for everyone to play with. And...it looks great. I'm very impressed with how its looking, the way it works and what it does. Hopefully others feel the same.
Last week saw AgentArts laucnhing IcyPole, this week should see a launch of some very important client work in a new entertainment area (hint dvds....) which I'm particularly proud of and the following week should see Playground Finder laucnhed to the public at large. Then its my birthday and I'm off at a Nokia mobile phone development course for that week so things are looking good.
Lots of promising things happening at the moment and potentially heading me in many many new and exciting directions...as Sherlock Holmes would say "The game is afoot".
Allez Allez Allez Aussies!!!
Early July means that the biggest yearly sporting event begins, Le Tour de France, and that means that Suzette and I will be glued to the TV at 6pm every night (or more likely a video after the kids go to bed) watching Stuey, Robbie, Baden, Brad and the others fire up around France. The last few years have been amazing for the Aussies and this year promises to be no different.
But....it was not to be today. Matt White followed in his wife's footsteps with some amazingly bad luck hitting him 2 hours before the start of his first race. While warming up he fell and broke his collar bone, putting him out of the race and doing nothing to help his Olympic preparation. Get well soon Matt and may this only spur you on to gold in Athens.
I hoping Jan and Tyler gets a win this year and Lance comes second or third. Who knows how it will go but it will be exciting.
Not wanting to be an ugly parent but I would love to see Jasmine or Oskar ride in Le Tour in the future. Especially as Oskar is named after a Swiss World Champ.
In other news, Suze and I spent about 5 hours doing final tweaks to Playground Finder so its just about ready to be pushed out for everyone to play with. And...it looks great. I'm very impressed with how its looking, the way it works and what it does. Hopefully others feel the same.
Last week saw AgentArts laucnhing IcyPole, this week should see a launch of some very important client work in a new entertainment area (hint dvds....) which I'm particularly proud of and the following week should see Playground Finder laucnhed to the public at large. Then its my birthday and I'm off at a Nokia mobile phone development course for that week so things are looking good.
Lots of promising things happening at the moment and potentially heading me in many many new and exciting directions...as Sherlock Holmes would say "The game is afoot".
Allez Allez Allez Aussies!!!
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