Just Me

My Sweetie decided that she wanted to go to BarCamp as she has made many attempts to design her own website and I think the current look and feel she is working on, is fantastic, if somewhat light on content ;). Keep in mind she is not a web designer by trade, before passing judgement.

So, we are using this as an excuse to have a weekend away together in the “other Capital” I will have to remember that I’m there in a social capacity and not a business one, everybody needs a break from time to time, you know As I was looking through the list of attendee’s and speakers I noticed a few familiar names, so it will be a chance to get to know them.

My Sweetie got me interested in blogging and probobly leads the most web-centric lifestyle of any person I know. Her job is managing a web-based Doc-control system, the team of people she works with are based in numerous different timezones. She “talks” daily to her friends and mum over MSN (who my sweetie introduced to personel PC’s and the web. Her mum is now an active member in some online communities, runs her own Wiki and not so long ago installed her own broadband. She gives us both tips regularly now) also gives her mum remote assistence for troubleshooting those annoying issue’s we all have her current web project is getting our photo collection geo-tagged and online, so that we can both use it for our own blog’s and so that we can share these images with our families and friends. Almost all our shopping with the exception of food and impulse items is purchased online, every holiday we have taken together has been booked online. All our maps, newspapers and lots of our entertainment are virtual, both on and offline.
I’m blaming her for a lot in the last paragraph but in truth these are the things that we do together. I’m looking forward to this, it’s not often we get to “geek out” in public, so this should be fun and interesting for us both.

I wish

Again, Gizmodo commentators, you really were on the ball this week, okay granted there always seems to be a lot of Mac fans commenting, but it’s rare that you see users rushing to the defence of any corporate like this.

Ok, before you click the link, It’s only fair to warn you that the topic of this Gizmodo post has to do with prison in-mates hiding things, so you have been warned! The comments are hilarious though.

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Hehee, I’m stunned by the things that make it onto the internet. Take this for example, when are you ever gonna need this? If you have access to the internet surely the device your using has a clock?

Well like the title says, I’ve had a busy week. I’m not sure where all my time went but I know a fair slab of it went into the office As a result I haven’t posted much so I thought I’d do some lightning posts of things that caught my attention this week.

Unfortunatly it’s not possible to do that with out mentioning the tragedies that monopolised the news this week. That said I don’t want to get into the Steve Irwin thing to much, I think plenty has been said online already and all I would like to add is that his family have my deepest sypathies as does the family of another great Australian, Peter Brock, who sadly lost his life in a seperate accident this week.

I hope that this week won’t be remembered as the week that two great human beings, entertainers of the people, Australians, and most of all hero’s lost there lives. I don’t think any man wants to be mourned when they go doing what there best at. I chose to remember their accomplishments and the special way they both had of inspiring and making others smile.

I’ll leave the closing words on this post to the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard who simply said “It’s been a pretty sad week for Australia”