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Recently my friends here in Florida, Javi and Glenda, had their first baby. Her name is Veronica. Congratulations Javi and Glenda! I took photos at their baby party recently, so now you know who I’m writing about.

Recently my friends back in Australia, Kynan and Debbie, had their first child Cooper, a healthy looking baby boy. Congratulations Kynan and Debbie! K-9, someday you’ll have to teach your son to do this. None of us standing there could believe you did it:

Hah! I cracked up laughing when I saw this website. Firstly because the pictured phone is the same damn one as mine that got a ’little’ wet in the clothes wash a while back. Secondly because I failed at step one: Get it out of the water as soon as possible. The plastic covers on cell phones are fairly tight, but water can enter the phone over time. But this time may be quite short - 20 seconds or less. So grab your phone quickly! ...

Oh, this is great. A recent episode of ‘Scrubs’ had Colin Hay, of ‘Men at work’ fame, singing ‘Overkill’. Outstanding!

I had many good plans for this year’s thanksgiving, even backup plans. Over the last few days I’ve watched each plan get struck down. Now I just don’t know what to do at all. I certainly don’t want to go somewhere I’ve already been, I really hate travelling by myself, and I sure as hell don’t want to stay in Florida. (puts thinking cap on) hmmm . . .

“THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian expatriates there” Link to news story If I needed an excuse to leave this country, this is it. I HAVE TWO LARGE JARS OF VEGEMITE, BITCHES!!!! COME AND GET ME!!!!

I used to follow a band called Zephyr Timbre, out of Brisvegas. They had some pretty cool tunes. Relaxed, funky, soulful… those are some words I’d use to describe them. Eventually they went their separate ways, much to my dismay. However. For a while now I’ve been following a new group formed by a couple of the ex-members of Zephyr Timbre. The group is called “My Ninja Lover”, and a few weeks ago now they released their first EP “Silk and Daggers”. It’s awesome, and I love it. Go buy their EP from any of the stores (physical and online) listed on their website: http://myninjalover.com/. Preview their music at their myspace page. ...

I’ve created a new set called ‘views from a plane’ on Flickr as I saw some interesting stuff when I last visited Australia. Here are some of the pictures (more to come). Set link is here.

This is a bit of a weird one. Currently I’m sitting on the upper deck (business) of a 747, awaiting takeoff to LAX, leeching the wifi signal from the Auckland international airport terminal. An explanation. Just under two weeks ago I got asked if I would like to fly to Australia for a work trip, helping the customer in Melbourne with testing of one of our new products. I had two days to prepare everything, and I spent a pretty hectic week in Melbourne with work related stuff. I was in Adelaide for about a day total and spent a couple of days back in rural SA catching up with family members. My brother and I staged quite a surprise for mum, thank God she’s still around, we thought we’d nearly sent her to an early grave there for a while. I’ll just say that she wasn’t expecting either of us there when she walked into the kitchen. ...

I took this HDR picture of Miami the other night. It’s a few pictures taken at different exposures slapped together with photoshop. I ended up forgetting that each photo taken for a HDR really should be one-stop different from its ’neighbour’, and the highest exposure photo wasn’t nearly enough to bring out the reflection in the water. Also, I was in the sort of spot where I didn’t feel completely safe, so I didn’t hang around for too long. ...