Any video with foxes, tigers, rabbits and other wild animals on bicycles gets my vote.

Sitting on my meditation cushion in the loungeroom writing this… On my iPhone!

Yes… Now I Am the master…

… You don’t understand the power of the Jobs…

And on breaking news, I discovered that if I eat properly, I don’t feel crappy…

Live and learn…

Well, it’s up:

www.tallpoppydigital.com.au

mother and child doing well…

I’ll be quaffing red wine with dinner tonight, let me tell you… I think a home-made pizza is right up my alley. I deserve it!

Way cool.

Visualisations of computer viruses

And there’s more on the site. Really interesting stuff.

Sick of talking to machines when calling Australia Post?

Press 0 when the computer starts speaking.

Course, it takes just as long to get to a human that you might just as well go through the computer system.

Dammit.

Brilliant!

Cyber-vigilantes foil gadget thief

I find rhyming slang and alternative terms for things amusing.

Sometimes I hear wrong and there’s a term going around my head that’s not quite right, but makes me giggle nonetheless.

The latest is one from the king of sardonic wit, Yahtzee  Crosshaw of Zero Punctuation Reviews.

Lamp them one: the art of whacking someone in an irritated fashion, potentially over the head.

As stated, I could have heard it wrong; he’s got an accent you could use to butter toast (as opposed to one you can cut with a knife).

And as I sit here, listening to Barry Adamson’s Stranger on The Sofa album, I wonder first if I’ll have enough money to get tickets to his Melbourne concert, and then exactly why I’m still awake. It’s after bloody midnight!

Bloody Hell!

useful vegan reference:

Wikibooks – Vegan substitutions

Just the thing for this recipe:

Chocolate tart 

Another use for an iPod Touch.

Sounds a bit like the apple remote to me, but as the article says, the touch can also act as a keyboard (if you are prepared to get used to the thumb-tapping interface).

With companies like Meraki slowly rolling-out blanket wi-fi access (and Meraki is part-owned by google, so they’re doing this potentially to add value to the Android phone) it won’t be long before the Touch can actually be used viably as a VoIP phone.

Give it a couple more years though… we’re a good 3-years behind the tech here in OZ.

Never criticise Bike riders, or do something as stupid as these guys did.

Brilliant!

Well, it ain’t an iPhone…

Looks like a pale version of a Crackberry or even — goddess forbid — a Palm Treo.

Funny how Sony Ericsson is bagging the devic, especially since they’ve just linked their destiny to Microsoft.

So, it’ll really be a battle of the phones. iPhone is apparently going gangbusters wherever it’s sold (and some places it isn’t), the Crackberry is potentially making a rod for its own back, Palm is just about dead, so what else is there?

Well, the OpenMoko Neo1973 still hasn’t been released, but it still looks very good, and sports a nifty touch-screen a’la iPhone, and there really isn’t any real competitor as far as I can see to the iPhone other than the aforementioned Android…

So the game’s afoot really…

This is very interesting

They’re right when they say that the studios are only assessing and distributing movies that they can make a buck off of; the same as every other business out there. Movie-making is a business, it’s not about creativity.

I, and friends, have a similar issue with the publishing industry.

The music industry is exactly the same.

This is the beginning of something interesting and new; the net has given us a way to communicate ideas and our creativity — be it good or bad — to the entire world (other than those countries being actively censored of course). The concept is revolutionary, and totally circumvents the business models which have worked for the last 100 or more years.

Now the key is to keep-up the momentum, so here are some additional links:

• Publish your book or periodical online at Lulu.com
• Show your movie or short film online at youtube.com
• Play your music for anyone to hear at myspace.com

These aren’t the be-all and end-all; there are plenty of other ways to get music, movies and books out there into the wide world; the next stage is getting it known.

And that’s where HTML metatags come in handy. You have to capitalise on the bots by working out the best search terms which will get your content to the top of the search results…

Ultimately, this is open-source for everything else. We’ve got open-source software, there’s the potential for open-source hardware, but open-source music, movies and books is a new development…  And like everything else that’s happening in the world, it’s making big-business very very scared.

Good.

An auspicious moment: 1000 hits on the blog.

Ah, me public.

I’d like to thank my producer, my publicist, friends and family…

I feel so lurrrrved.

Very cool.

I’ve been asked by one of my fabulous readers for an RSS feed for the site. Wow, I’m popular…

I’ve actually added one to the sidebar, but the template I’m using doesn’t actually display it.

However, in the address field (top of the screen where the URL is), there is a little RSS icon, which if you click, will take you to another page to subscribe to the site.

Now, I put a little disclaimer on this: I’m using Firefox on a Mac. I don’t know if it will appear in Internet Exploder, Safari or any of the plentiful other web browsers out there. I know it works in Firefox, and that’s Good Enough For Me!

Course, I’m not the one that’s going to subscribe to my own blog. That would be egotistical and perhaps even slightly odd.

Muahahaaaaaa…

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ps. The RSS icon appears in Firefox on eXtra Problems too!

pps. The RSS icon doesn’t appear in the address bar in IE7 on XP, but it is available as a button which links to the subscription page.

ppps. I’ve added an RSS feed link in the links panel at the right

Well it’s about time.

I’ve just finished a first-draft of a new DaisyDonnie story; story 5 of book 3.

It’s an idea I’ve had for some time, and I’ve finally worked-out how to assemble the ideas into a coherent whole.

It’s an odd story, one which could be interpreted as disjointed (and which will be helped by future edits).

The muse is back finally; thanks to a much calmer, relaxed atmosphere here at home.

Yes, I missed Bikram tonight, but I got some stuff done which I needed desparately to finish. Tomorrow a double. Easy.

I’ve got at least 5 more stories to write for book 2, and a dozen for book 3, but it could very well be a rush of writing over the next few weeks. I may have the same writers-block that Douglas Adams suffered from; hugely productive bouts of extreme creativity followed by dead-zones of silence.

The mind works strangely, and the ideas don’t come if you force them. They have to come naturally and in their own time.

Interestingly enough, I find the music of Muse gets my mind working, but it is quite frantic music and so the writing that comes out seems energised. I should listen to some Barry Adamson too (just bought his new album off of iTunes so should get it onto the iPod and take it to work…)

However, that’s something for tomorrow. It’s 9.30 and time for bed. Especially since I need to be up at 5.30 at the latest for Bikram. Hey ho…

I am a geek. A hardcore Geek.

The principal is simple: My cat gets a little EM jigger (The scientific term) for her collar. The cat flap opens for her and not for any other cat.

There’s another cat that jumps down into the yard, and I don’t want him getting into the house and spraying the place; nor do I want him eating my cat’s food.

Short of staying home, with broom at-the-ready, this was the next best thing!

Bloody Hell.

Looks like my ActiveCollab database is still up.

Just got to get in there and kill the projects that are already there, and then create some new ones.

A victory for absent-mindedness, I’ll call this; if I’d been thinking, I’d have wiped the thing ages ago!

w00t!

Review of The Golden Compass.

Polar Bears?

Cool!

Talking Polar Bears?

Coool!

Talking polar bears with Ian McKellen’s voice?

Whoah! Cool!