you'll never guess the best place to watch the sunset

If there were an award for "Best view from a grocery store" or "Best place to watch the sunset in Melbourne", Safeway/Target Camberwell would almost certainly win both categories.

Many times I have walked home (the store is between me and the train station) and seen a row of people watching the sun set while leaning on the railing out front of the shops.

Tonight was spectacular, the city glowed with the cresent moon and the first star of the evening directly above. Heartstopping. Everyone I passed smiled at me - though perhaps that's because I was smiling first ;)

i might just be hooked

It's created by a group called Mind Candy - how could I not get hooked? I love candy - i love puzzles!

I received my USB coffee warmer today - perfect accessory for the funky absent minded programmer whose coffee goes cold every time she gets on a roll/get interrupted/wanders off to chat ;)

In the box was also this weird little card; #027 Bar Open. "cool! they know where my favorite local jazz bar is?!? Awesome targeted marketing!"

Not so much.

It's a diabolical mega puzzle, with a online controller and puzzle cards of different levels. Of course, they game me the easy one. Teasing! Solved it, solved the freebies and now I'm jonesin' for more.

mmm.. mind candy.

google dream job super awesomeness

one of my favorite people in the entire universe - glentron! - has been working at google for a while now, and since his blog showed up in blogger.com's "blogs we've noticed recently" i though everyone i know should know that glen is still super awesome..

he made that thing that synchronizes my firefox thingers!!! i never have to lose a bookmark again.. or wait til i get home from the office to look up that whatever!

i love him more than ever now! useful people deserve prizes! and lots of good sex. however, as i am in australia, i think i will just send him some candy.. :)

i always miss cherry ripes when i'm away ;)

boundin'

I love pixar. So nice to know there are Jackalopes around!

Good and cute things may seem stupid to most people. Those people can take their superciliousness and pretend to be cool elsewhere.

Simple goodness makes people happy.. and that's what life is really about.

there are no stupid questions, only stupid people

I know that it's completely uncharitable and unfair.. but I have a cold, I'm not in vegas and people on forums complaining about eclipse not working like RAD make me want to squirt lemon juice into their eyes.

WebSphere Studio -> RAD is a sore association for me. It's *not* the real server - how many times have the bugs come out once deployed to the integration or test server??

Maybe.. (unlikely).. the products aren't bad per se, but they are often associated with big-bad-ugly projects. EARs with >five utility/framework/EJB projects - what the fuck is the framework this time? - .. countless EJBs, layers, validations, rules, redirections and some laughable (if one wasn't working on them) attempts at implementing patterns which ended up like jigsaw puzzles!

I think I feel better now.

Did I ever say how much I love being a developer? :)

vegas and the grand canyon :)

I dislike the idea of vegas, I can't understand why people go there. Except for right now!

JBoss world is there - with it's preponderance of hot java geeks - and my own hot geek is going to Vegas for Cisco Networkers this coming week too. Then onto the Grand Canyon - a destination high on my list of "must sees".

This is about the only time I'd want to be there and I'm stuck in frozen Melbourne. Why can't I have everything my way?

It isn't so bad, I'm playing with Seam. Being a weekend thing, I can barely keep up with the commits coming through - someone needs to send Gavin King on vacation! Working from CVS means staying in line with EJB3/appserver requirements du jour. e.g. NoSuchMethodError this week; http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=84602

I have randomly popped the EJB3 Alpha8 jars into the AS lib directory.. and moved out some other random ones. My apps are working again - yay :) but I feel like I will be punished for violating the appserver with this brutal surgery, so strong is the drill to not fuck with the appserver lib directory.

Coding is more fun when you break the big stuff :]

did they not feel feel canadian enough?

Seems the youth of Toronto are just as disenfranchised and attention seeking as any other easily misled group, but even understanding the urge of youth to stand up against the perceived injustices of the world, nothing makes sense about setting bombs in Canada.

True, Toronto is the least Canadian part of Canada (as the biggest city), it always gets the ribbing of being too big, too rude, too american ;P Perhaps, but I'v always considered us safer and more reasonable than most of the world.

These were local guys, from the GTA and surrounds, probably in mid/lower class (speculation) neighbourhoods. How did things get so wrong for them? Do they not understand what it is to be Canadian? People around the world would give up a limb to be in their place! I'm sure Canadian Muslims have no grudge against Torontonians - or do they, sections of them, and we have no idea?

With only a couple of weeks until Canada Day, I'm extra sad to hear about this. I hope everyone is thinking about how we can share the great things about being Canadian with everyone.

Exploding things is cool, but Canadians dying is so not.