Umamiblog

One of my favourite sites on the web is the aptly title Stuff on my cat.com. Ocassionally gems like these will pop up. Who knew monkeys and cats were such a great combination!

Boring warning: This is probably only of interest to people who work in IT in Wellington. And even if you do, its still no guarantee that its interesting!

Anyway, it popped up on Dave5‘s blog that today is his last day at Provoke. This is interesting for two reasons:

1. Whenever someone moves around its interesting to note.
2. More importantly, what is he going to move onto next? I’m eagerly awaiting that point. Especially after his series of blog posts titled: One of the Biggest Opportunities in History

What do you get when you mash an iPod Shuffle with a NES controller?

I want one.

…you have to pull an all-nighter to get some work done and you get to that stage of tired when words start to look and sound funny?

I mean “property”, just look at it!

Bwahahahahaha!

Trade Me dad giving away $47m

I hope I would have the courage and the compassion to make the same or similar decision if I were in his shoes.

My first April Fools Day in Wellington and I was a little disappointed to pick up the DomPost only to find there was no joke on the front page. The ODT down in Dunedin every year runs a fantastic joke that every year manages to fool scores of people in Otago. I’m sure this year will be no different:

Hue and cry expected over bird agreement

Update: Heh, found last year’s ODT gag while trawling through old docs on my comp.

“Really? I’m buying it as a gift for someone who has been through this before and I don’t want to buy it if its not true.”

- Girl trying to buy James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, responding to sales attendant’s caution. Melbourne International Terminal.

Bwhahahaha. I was happy man that day…

Some more piss take references:
Banterist: A Million Little Explanations
Mashup Mansion Tom Cruise on Oprah As It Should Have Been

• Someone at work sent around this photo of the real Firefox mascot. Cute.
• Firewheel Design has I Heart Rootkit T-shirts for those that want to show Sony their love.
• Tom of WellUrban fame is pitching Wellington to Gridskipper. Wellington is going into battle against Baku, Azerbaijan. Get voting!
• Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users shares something with us that we probably all know but are in constant denial about: Multitasking makes us stupid
• Phil Cockfield continues this theme by asking How many messages each day?
• Mike Davidson instead asks us Who Would You Be? Interesting to note in his comments most people would be Leonardo Da Vinci or one of Jesus’ disciples.
• AdverGirl presents us with a brilliant ad peice – advertising to advertisers.
• Have just been registered for Webstock, earlybird registration closes tomorrow at 4pm.

Shot by: Richie
Where: somewhere in Thailand

Have a look at who gets a tiny wee sound byte in this night’s news item.

Cool idea also!

Yep, you’re guessing right. That is a rather grainy shot of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983, in Iraq. Stumbled on it while trawling Wikipedia in an article on the Iran-Iraq War.

So who is the VIP in town that needs to travel in a 7 car entourage with 2 police cars and needs to shut down intersections when travelling?

Sarah saw them last night at about 7:30pm, then I saw them on my way to work (running late at 9am) parked outside the Duxton waiting to pick up the entourage (I assume).

So who is it and why hasn’t there been anything visible in media? Could it be Bill Clinton? He was in Auckland last weekend for some junket thing.

/me goes to kick myself for not taking a photo…