Naked Coffee

I've discovered a new coffee store (well actually credit really has to go to Ness for the discovery) but it's well and truly my favorite place to get coffee while i'm at work. It's in the Elizabeth Arcade (that runs from Charlotte St. to Elizabeth St. between Albert and George st) it's tucked away in the corner with stools and tables lining the arcade if' you looking for a time out. The coffee is great and to appeal to my inner geek they have a camera hooked up to a flat panel so you can see you coffee being made... So if your looking for a nice coffee or a bit of a time out head to Naked Coffee.

Last Cricket match before the big day

I had my last night of Indoor cricket before the big day last night and although I put in a fairly ordinary performance with both bat and ball we still came away with a good win. With the ball I though I was placing them fairly well and getting a fair bit of turn but just couldn't come up with a wicket. With the bat was just as bad... I just couldn't pick the bounce and as a result didn't get on to many at all, still came away with the skin (beating the score of the apposing pair) and a decent score but it certainly wasn't in spectacular fashion... Nice to start the break on a good win though

Conscious and almost human again....

Today was well and truly a recovery day.... After a night of way too many mixed drinks I struggled to get out of bed before 1:30 to only go back to sleep by 2... Unfortunately I had to actually leave the house to go and what Ness play soccer, not really sure how she had the energy because it took all my effort just to get out of bed.

Now I've had dinner and about 10L of water I actually almost feel normal again.

Yesterday (before the large level of alcohol consuption) was spent at the Go Kart track. We had timed races and a few practice laps which was great fun...We had 11 guys running around the track and ended up trashing about 5 karts in the process with our carnage. Let's face it we managed give the crashed a fairly good run for their money...There weren't many laps that we got through without a scene or two like this.

Andrew caught all the action for us and I've put all the photos from the day up on Flickr.

All in all (despite the huge hang over) it was a great day... Thanks to everyone for coming along and thanks to Tom and Craig for organising it!

All the time in the world an on console

Today was just not meant to be a good day for gaming. To start off I forgot my Gameboy micro at home (along with a hostof other things) then I got an unexpected package from Lik Sang but it didn't have any games for me in it! After i'd eventually picked up my micro I accidently left it on so i'm blogging to fill in time between takes for the recording i'm doing tonight.

Back to Indoor

This season I've gone back into full swing at indoor. I've gone back to Soccer and Cricket this season. Soccer last night turned out to be a pretty late game but we had another good win... 14-5 in the end but it was a pretty hard slog at times. I scored a few goals but I was the happiest with my keeping effort, managed not to let a single one though against some guys who played superleague last year. We haven't had many players so far this season so we've been running low on subs, at least it will help keep me fit having to play 3 quarters on the court and one in goals.

At the risk of jinxing myself Cricket has also been going really well this season. I got some tips on batting from one of the guys at the end of last season and it has really help. Have managed to get some confindence back in my batting and have concentrated on working it around rather than trying to belt every ball to the back net. Hopefully I can keep it going because I've managed to average 2.5 runs for every ball I face and the first two games were against the top team in the grade.

The only thing I haven't missed about playing every week is the continual state of healing my knees and elbows are in...

An iGame? Surely Not

This scan of an April Edition of an Apple magazine was posted up on Engadget today. Surely it can't be true... Would apple actually consider taking on Sony and Nintendo in the Handheld Market? Every competitor that has come up against Nintendo has well and truly lost and although the fight is still raging with the PSP, the DS is certainly holding it's ground. Would Apple actually be able or want to crack into the gaming market? I think is would be a significant shift of direction for their iPod market.

There is also the games to consider? The current Mac platform isn't know for it's games, would Apple be looking to draw on exisitng titles in the market or are the looking at developing their own and opening up another third party development stream...

I think if it is true... the PSP should be shaking in it's boots as a US$1.99 episode of Lost on your iGame would be a much better idea than a $30+ UMD movie and the infrastructure is already there....

Productivity Zero...

I've had the least productive day I've had in a long time... I've spent most of today chasing my tail. Today just seems to be a continual stream of stuff that could be easily avoided if anyone stopped and though about what they were asking/looking for, for more than 0.0001 of a second. How some people know so little about their job is simply astounding! And just to add icing to the cake having project managers second guess customers requirements because it's not the way would have it work and that's the way the customer should be trained is just joyous and should make for some fun project meetings during training... And if anyone opens there mouth muttering gibberish resulting to mislead customers I'm going to end up rocking on the floor in the fetal position!

As a result I've got nothing done that I was supposed to get done today and my overall achievement for the day has been minimal... So to make myself feel a little more accomplished I've been blogging, as you can see just a post or two :)

At least I've done something constructive today.

Should TV Networks be worried?

There have been lots of articles floating around this week about the rise in (illegal) downloading of TV shows and whether it will impact the way TV networks do business. Even with a PVR I struggle to get to watch everything that I want a combination of moving time slots, running late (or early) or just showing things in some random order makes it all too hard.

How networks can expect to have a loyal fan base for a series when it's a challenge every week just to find when your show is on...

Another announcement by Apple on it's iTunes service for more Video download pricing plans - iTunes unveils "Multi-Pass" purchase option. Basically looking at changing the current pricing model from US$1.99 per episode to a more subscription based system.

Unfortunately I don't know if there are any plans for us downunder to score the video download service, but this is definately the way to go with your Mac Mini pluged into your TV Streaming down the latest episodes of your favourite shows.

"This Multi-Pass includes the most recent episode (if one is available) and the next 15 episodes of The Daily Show. The most recent episode (if available), will download immediately and future episodes will download as they become available," according to Apple's website.

It certainly can't be long before the current TV networks have to rethink their strategies on programming...