Umamiblog

Shot yesterday by my father on his way back to Central.

Judging by how low the lake level is, I’d say we’re in for another power conservation/shortage/crisis winter…

The NZ International Arts Festival has truly come and gone for Wellington but the free exhibition Earth from Above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand is still running in Waitangi Park.

A friend I work with maintains his blog as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family and to post the odd (excellent) photo or two. Trey is an Austin, Texas native who recently re-applied for his work visa.

His blog was found and checked by immigration officials who then asked (or stated to) him that they didn’t necessarily believe he wanted to stay in the country for the stated length of his visa… All this because he had a comment on his blog about wanting to go to Europe that was posted 6 months ago.

And I thought they rubber stamped Americans who wanted to live here and work in IT.

Snapped this on an early morning flight to Sydney last month. Of the dozen shots I took, this was the only one remotely close to focusing. It was stunningly beautiful as we took off and flew over the harbour with all four cities in view. This shot is looking towards the area of harbour between Seaview and Eastbourne.

See if you can link the landmarks in the photo to the satellite shot on Google Maps.

Today Vodafone announced that they would be releasing a mobile data plan on their 3G network that gave you 1GB for $49+GST. That’s probably enough for me to lose my landline which I only have to get DSL.

Vodafone page.

[Deleted expletives]

Far out! No wonder those protesters are so adamant at getting that information out.

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.

And yet we still have clients who are afraid their logo is going to get stolen from their website and think that a script which allows you to disable right clicking is an effective means to stop that from happening.

There are so many things wrong with that sentence (the least of which is it’s grammar).

*sigh*

Update: And clients asking for images to be sized to the 35mm film aspect ratio.