interactive tour of Dante's inferno

via Presurfer

hey Glenn, what have you been doing the last few days?

hurro hurro, welcome to my Sunday evening. Glad you could make it. It's been bucketing rain outside for over an hour, with the characteristic light & sound show that seems to be synonymous with rain in Malaysia. My girl and I are kicking on the couch, a configuration we have been in for several hours now, such is the whim and fancy that can grip us on such a lazy afternoon.

I've been chatting on pidgin on and off for a few hours. I'm now spending more time in ubuntu linux than I am in winxp, and am only really finding myself booting back into xp when i want to do something in particular, like use photoshop. For a general weekends tasks, listening to music, surfing the web, watching shows, ubuntu serves me extremely well. The fact that it's lightning fast and comes with some great software certainly doesn't hurt either.

Last night we went to dinner at Chris' & Veronica's new pad (you live there Veronica, admit it ok? hehe) which was great... rabbit and venison satay sticks, camembert and black olives and sliced cherry tomatoes for an apetiser. Looovely!


Friday night was Evan Donnolley's farewell back to the land of Oz. He's been here for 9 or 10 weeks, hopefully he'll be back soon too. We staked out the back of the little Havana bar with 15 or so of our closest friends and played pool and drank and laughed. There was also some hazy occurences of attempting to balance the pool queue on noses as well.
It was a close call, but I'm going to award the most entertaining person of the night award to Kirsha. If you don't know, don't ask because I won't tell. ;)

The wednesday day before was a fairly busy one at work, so when I left I invited Frank to come and have a quick drink at Havana afterwards. He said he would only have one or two, which suited me fine.
..Anyway, so it was close to 3am when we were drunkenly eating curry down the road wasn't it. hehe... a good night, but ouch my head the next day. There's few things that let you know just how hungover you are than sitting in air-conditioning after 4 hrs sleep and too many beers and need to write code.

Aah well, it's not something that I do very often, but I'm happy to inform you that I have not learnt any lessons at all from this.

Currently listening to my newly acquired (note: I do not say 'bought') Bonobo collection. Me likey likey.. maybe you likey likey too?

The Pasha Bulker

The east coast of Australia has been whipped by some ferocious storms this last week. Currently there are nine ppl dead, 4000 evacuated and 200,000 without power. My good friend Mick Ford, who now lives in Newcastle (about an hour or so north of Sydney), took these great pics and video of the 'Pasher Bulker' cargo ship which broke its' mooring and ran aground.

see more photos at Mick's Flickr site

This is Drivemocion. It’s a display system for your car that allows you to communicate simple messages to other road users. For example, you can say “Thank you” to the driver behind who has just let you pass, or "Where did you get your licence, in a pack of noodles?, you bloody idiot!"

Considering that most Malaysian drivers consider indicating left and right to be an optional extra novelty function of their car, it would be interesting to see if this caught on here.

I think this sort of inter-car communcation tool is a really good thing. I'd definately buy something like this.


The small electronic display unit is attached to the rear window while the remote control goes to the windscreen where you can easily reach it. They communicate via infrared.

Both the display unit and the remote control are fixed to the inside of the car window using power suction cups so they are very easy to install.

The main unit is powered by 4 AA batteries and they can last about four months depending on usage.

Depending on which version you purchase, (there are two, three or five message versions), the two-messages version comes with only two smileys — :) and :(. The five-messages version comes with :), :(, Thanks, Back Off and Idiot.

It’s possible to have four-letter words or other “customised” messages (you can’t do it yourself, you have to go to an accessories shop) but you have to know that these may not just cost extra but they will also increase your chances of getting run off the road.

Venus

Stella Hultberg
"Suadela"

Lori Earley

"Drained"


Sarah Joncas
"Coatlicue's Prayer"

.. found here