Guide to pants off living
May 2006
Pimpy!
Friday, 26 May 2006
Shared the train to work this morning with one of the guys I work (whom I didn't know was from the 'hood) and I pointed out a bike I was lusting after (as some lucky prick rode by on it) and he mentioned the goodness that was 'Pimp my Fahrrad!' which was on TV in Europe when he was working there.
How cool - it's like Pimp My Ride but with bicycles, and wacky Germans! What could be more fun.
Klaus, ubergeben mir den Schlussel!
Posted by travo at 12:17:48 PM
Smack my bitch up!
Friday, 26 May 2006
This is coooooool - makes me wish this was on my StinkPad notebook; SmackBook Pro allows you to switch virtual desktops by tapping the side of your monitor. 'Ken awesome.
Posted by travo at 12:15:09 PM
Google Maps - Australia Mapped!
Tuesday, 23 May 2006
Goooooooogle Maps rock my world. I've been waiting for the complete mapping data for Australia to be finished so I can fiddle around with the API. While I'm not at extreme mashup stage yet, I have implemented a bit of a location search for the Music Schools at the Yamaha Music website.
This is really exciting! It was pretty straight forward to set up, there were some great examples on the API documentation (proving that I'm a moron) which I found easy to follow and implement for my purposes.
There was some weirdness within my development environment - highly restrictive as it is - which arose from Internet Explorer not being permitted to set cookies, but other than that, it went very well. Drop a line directly to let me know what you think, I've still got comments turned off here and won't turn 'em on again until I can be sure that I'm not gonna get comment spam.
Posted by travo at 2:29:09 PM
What kind of developer are you?
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
Oh this is golden - are you an Asshole or a Moron?
Posted by travo at 5:03:16 PM
Dense : Living in Hong Kong
Tuesday, 16 May 2006
This is a fantastic gallery of photography by Michael Wolf, firstly of The Architecture of Density and then 100 x 100 which is a collection of 100 portraits of residents in their 100 square feet apartments.
100 square feet. That is tiny. Ten feet by ten feet. Wow. Think about that in your Cranbourne Mc Mansion.
Posted by travo at 1:56:16 PM
Hello George Eaves!
Monday, 15 May 2006
Congratulations to Jon and Sue Eaves who welcomed their beautiful new addition to the family, George on Sunday morning.
Rupert's sentiments are beautiful and hard to match, but it's great to see that two of the most generous, caring and loving people I know finally blessed with a bundle of joy!
George, I anticipate, will shortly have; a level 60 sage in World of Warcraft, his own directory on eaves.org and an application for MCC membership in the mail.
Love you guys.
Posted by travo at 10:04:25 AM
Thank the Gods : Keef is still alive!
Friday, 12 May 2006
I can't begin to tell you how relieved I am that Keith Richards has finally been discharged from hospital after falling out of a coconut palm and damaging his own nut.
It would have been a fairly inglorious end to a stellar career in which he has managed to outlive many of his other contemporaries. I mean, cool - if Keith had actually been mortally injured falling out of a coconut palm, that'd have been very rock and roll. Unfortunately though, had Keith passed away in a hospital bed with a hole in his head to drain away fluid on the brain; well anyones Grandmother can die like that. It just woud not have been a fitting end to one of Rocks greatest living treasures.
Posted by travo at 12:19:08 PM