Saw this driving home the other week. Not quite the sexy car I’d expect with that kind of license plate.
Waiting for Transformers 2 screening
June 16, 2009Wow, it’s been 3 months since my last post. That’s pretty poor form. I’ll have to do something about that.
At the moment I’m in The Eastern Hotel at Bondi Junction, waiting for a 7pm screening of the new Transformers movie. I’m very excited. Excited enough to write a post on the Shuffle…
The room is currently filled with beautiful people who I assume are used to attending movie premieres. I, on the other hand, feel very out of place. At least when we sit in the cinema, it should be dark enough for me to blend in…
1st Wedding Anniversary, Kangaroo Valley
March 22, 2009
We tossed around a few ideas of where to go to celebrate our first 12 months as a married couple, but with Lauren’s pregnancy and budgets, we decided that we would return to Crystal Creek Meadows in Kangaroo Valley.
It was an amazingly relaxing weekend spent pottering through the valley, enjoying some incredibly fine food at Cafe Bella and Jing Jo restaurants, and a little bit of bushwalking around the river.
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Who’s Your Daddy? (Me)
March 22, 2009Well, maybe not your Daddy, but a Daddy. That’s right – Lauren and I are having a baby!
We’re both incredibly excited, as you could imagine. We’ve just passed the 13 week mark, so there’s still a long way to go, but so far everything has gone as smooth as we could hope for. (Although Lauren might argue that last point, considering she can’t really eat during the day).
So Much To Write About, So Little Time
March 22, 2009I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t neglected the Shuffle in recent weeks. There’s just been so much going on. So here’s the plan: Three short, sharp posts detailing a few of the big events of my life this past month or so…
Stay tuned!
What Exactly is a Wookie Cookie?
March 3, 2009
The question is: What exactly is in a Wookie Cookie? Bantha Fodder? Cream of Ton-Ton? Jar-Jar Binks? Well, we can only hope that the last one is true…
Finally! The new bookshelf has been delivered and installed
February 21, 2009It took about a month, but I’ve finally got our new bookshelf. It’s massive. Now I just need to put our books in there..
The Ubuntu Expedition
January 28, 2009
This week, I found myself without a decent working loaner laptop for the first time in a long time. And I needed to head into the office. And I needed to work on the train. So, I was left with no option but to pull out my old Dell Inspiron from 2002… Yes that hideous thing you see above.
Considering that it was slower than a sloth on Sunday, I decided to give Ubuntu a good old college try as my OS of choice. I downloaded the ISO file last night, burnt it to disk this morning, and tried to install it before I left for work. That didn’t work…
So I booted up XP, worked painfully slowly on the train, got to the office and tried again. And despite how long it took, I actually got it working – and the process was relatively pain free.
I haven’t tested it out fully yet – the battery went dead by the time I was on the train home to use it – but it seems to actually be not only functional, but comparatively speedy and efficient. I’m not that surprised – I had heard good things beforehand. It’s just nice to have a decent experience with a “PC”…
The problem now is that I have another loaner, and I doubt I’ll pull out the Inspiron again any time son, even to play with Ubuntu. I mean, I can play with Windows 7 now, and that’s the more exciting of the two, right? Right?
Thoughts From The Big Day Out 2009
January 24, 2009
Yesterday Lauren and I headed over to the Big Day Out, courtesy of HP (who had a stand at the event). The only way to describe the experience come from the immortal words of Danny Glover: “I’m getting too old for this shit”.
For a start, it was bloody hot. Even though I had sunscreen on every conceivable part of exposed skin, it seems that wasn’t enough – my scalp feels well and truly sunburnt… I guess my hair is thinning faster than Amazonian rainforest at the moment.
Secondly, the event is clearly for young people. I reckon that at 29, I dragged up the average age something shocking. Not only that, but 90% of the people there were relatively attractive, a surprisingly high percentage had tattoos, and an equally high number for completely off their nut.
We ended up leaving after a few hours – I’d been sick the night before and Lauren was feeling ill from the heat, but we both left Homebush thinking the same thing: this so isn’t our scene.
On the upside, we did get to see Birds of Tokyo again, and they rocked.
Another Giz Milestone
January 23, 2009So this week marked my one year anniversary at the helm of Gizmodo… and what a year it has been!
Here are some figures to mull over:
Monthly unique browsers in December 2007 – 220,240
Monthly unique browsers in December 2008 – 678,311 (and keep in mind that December is a slightly quieter month thanks to Christmas/New Years. November 2008 had over 800,000 uniques).
Monthly pageviews in December 2007 – 967,297
Monthly pageviews in December 2008 – 2,964,645
So, as you can see, it’s been a good year for Giz. And a good year for me. Here’s hoping we can maintain the growth for the next 12 months…
