i got the message and the message is clear

People who are making robots or suggesting pets to keep the elderly company are wasting their time..

Soon it will not be an issue and all elderly will be computer savvy - they will spend their twilight years playing computer games and chatting to other old fogues. No mobility required!

My mother is nearly 60 and happily whiles away her days pottering in the garden, reading the occasional novel and playing 5-or-more, bejeweled and Settlers I!

melbourne is diversity

This city is awesome. Our mayor is chinese-australian and our deputy major is *flaming*.

Sydney might have the mardi gras, but we got the culture.

I just wish this diversity was reflected in our Federal parliament. Aren't we all sick of looking at the tired old white guy with crazy brows?!

new iPod and neat iTunes companion

Just in time for my new video ipod (black of course!) I have discovered the yahoo (konfabulator) widget iTunes Companion - super-duper. It updates cover art - all the albums I've bought and ripped have been updated like magic! Highly recommended and please donate to mister Knut August Johansen - clearly he is a genius.

I've been chatting to my super-awesome mountie friend from Van, and it makes me miss Canada so badly. My boy is way up north in Ontario this weekend - playing survivorman and getting drunk with his buddies. I'm here.. which ain't bad. It's just far.

Upgrading from J2EE v!.crap to v3 was more painful that I first imagined.. 1.1 CMP had to be completely redone for EJB 2.0. The beautiful old-style architecture we had, simple Value Object/DTO access to the data, was based on the Value Object being extended by the Bean object. Ha! that makes all the data fields part of the EJB and completely breaks the 2.0 spec.

Why didn't they see that coming in 2001? ;P