Matts Meanderings

Autumn rain Hosted on Zooomr

A mate took this photo for me - I'd seen it when I was in Melbourne last time round, but didn't get a chance to take it myself.

I was quite annoyed when I saw this, as its simply not true. How can what I ate for breakfast help fight terrorists? How can what colour socks I'm wearing be vital to national security? Its just adding to the climate of fear, and getting people used to the idea that the government should know absolutely everything about us... So much for privacy.

Inishbofin lighthouse Hosted on Zooomr

Been a little toasty round here lately... This is my thermometer the other morning when I got up:

Toasty... Hosted on Zooomr

Was 32° C at my desk today, and 33° C or so on the train home. Heard on the radio that the average temp for this time of year is 22° C. Its been toasty for a couple of weeks now, and its not a nice heat, its a really humid erky heat...

Oh well, cant be that bad. At least its not freezing like it is in Melbourne .

Just managed to setup the T-Mobile email to txt service... I'm really not sure how useful it is, but if you so desire, you can send a txt via email to me at xxx@t-mobile.uk.net... Suprisingly, the xxx is my phone number... I'm assuming you've got it. You dont? Well, you're obviously not special enough...

Maybe it'd be more useful for automated tasks or something... Oh well, I'll figure something out

Absolutely loved watching Top Gear last week - laughed so much I cried...

They've got a bit of a thing against caravans, so, just for a laugh, they decided to go for a caravan holiday...

Needless to say, they made a complete mess of it. Watch the rest of it over here. Absolutely brilliant!

Not a big fan of london water... This is my cup of tea from the other day, just using normal tap water:

And yes, its a huge cup - is about twice the size of a normal cup .

Went and saw the Rocky Horror Show the other day, with Sue and Hannah.

I'd never seen it before, so this was a bit of an eye opener... Stark raving mad, insane, but fun. Especially enjoyed the audience participation - added to the fun of it all.

All fun. Could be worth seeing again

This is on display round the corner from work...

Yes, its a hand-knitted ferrari. Some people have far to much time on their hands...

More info on The Times website.

Which part of my brain decided it was a good idea to get this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this, and try and turn it into something like this.

Not working as planned . Instead, it looks something like this.

Maybe I should just stick to software...

Thought I'd check out Zooomr, especially seeing they're giving away free Pro accounts to bloggers. All you have to do is sign up, upload a photo, and then link to it from your blog (as explained here).

Schweet!

So, if I can be bothered, I'll try and post (what i think is) a decent photo every couple of days. Then again, seeing how crazy my life has been lately, that might be every couple of weeks...

The stuff of nightmares...Hosted on Zooomr

Saw this on the side of a bus in Washington (I believe), at the start of the year:

Granted, its just an advert for Lonely Planet, but still...

Finally, instead of purely Microsoft bashing, law-makers have finally realised that the iPod is anti-competitive.

French law-makers have approved a law forcing Apple to make its music format available to other manufacturers, rather than only allowing iTunes music to be played on iPods...

via eHomeUpgrade.

The Little Girl Giant.

via Gadgetopia.

Been getting into the football soccer lately, and I'm really quite enjoying it.

Bitterly disappointing about the Italy v Australia result - really wasn't happy about that. That said, when Italy played Germany last night, they played brilliantly. If they'd played that way against Aus, I would've had no problems with them winning, but winning off a dodgy penalty, not good.

Thinking that those penalties are dodgy. Say, for example, they've got a 50% chance of scoring of one of those penalties. When a normal games score is 1-0, thats just way too much advantage to give. In AFL, a free kick like that, you get 6 points if you're lucky, with an average game score of 80-100 (or so). Big difference, especially for something so disputable. Those umpires referees¹ have headsets on - they can talk to the other refs - get a second opinion on something so important.

Also not liking the bad sportsmanship, and overacting. That player that got 3 yellow cards in that game - he knew. He should've walked off by himself. And when the players act like they've broken a leg, and then are up and running 3 seconds later - its crap. Maybe playing a good game is more important to Aussies than in European football...

¹ I use umpire and referee interchangeable. Apparently this is *wrong*. However, no-one has yet been able to explain why...