Congrats to Obama, the world rejoices! Let’s hope he can back up his words with his actions now.  A place to look initially will be healthcare and Iraq.  I found a disturbing graph which highlights why a controlled withdrawl is neccesary:

My bad, I took a slightly longer vacation than first expected.  Yes, a swell holiday except getting snowed in, in Queenstown.  I vow to never fly Qantas airlines again.  Air New Zealand had the right GPS gear to land in Queenstown but Qantas’ planes were out of date so they kindly put us on a bus for 8 hours and then had to wait 2 days till another flight, no costs paid for, alas a fantastic trip beside this.

I made it back just in time to get to Meshuggah’s gig as well which was fantastic.  It’s almost uncanny how Sweden can produce pop sensations ABBA and also down-tuned, polyrhythmic Meshuggah madness.

Guess what? – I voted today, yip about 3 weeks early, a special vote if your heading out of town.  I voted for a centre-left/democrat party to give you a hint.

Phew, last paragrah I promise … Google Reader led me to a fantastic new device that will make even the iphone look like an obsolete pile of plastic – check out the video, Nokia Morph:

So no posts for about 10 days or so

Keep well

I found an interesting article about webpages from 1998 and how they look now.  Gosh, the webpages from 98′ look so old fashioned it makes me wonder if we will look at the iphone on Apple’s webpage for example in 10 years time and say, “Can you remember that iphone, it was so limited in what it could do”.  Take a look for your self.  Where and what do you think technology will be up to in a decade from now?

1998

2008:

1998:

2008:

This post is slighty juvenile but reminds me of fun times in Indonesia.

“It’ll be hard to know where to put your focus this month, between your personal and professional life. Both are ripe for change, but if you spend all your time focused on one area, you’ll waste a big opportunity to deal with the other. Having said that, of the two, your personal life is more likely to “flow” without too much effort. And there really are good gains to be made career-wise.”

“Try not to do much today — you’ve got to take care of yourself first and foremost. You can tell that there’s a big shift coming that will favor you, but you’ve got to ride out this slow patch”

Well, I don’t think you can get much more general than 2 of my horoscopes that I found.  I am a sceptic as far as they go and it is interesting that the above could be for anyone at any given time.

Check out James Randi in these vids they are quite entertaining, by the way is that House from House?   The sound quality in the 1st vid is a bit average but improves.

Some things should be left to wallow in bargin bins at Kmart.  But some genius thinks that we need to indulge in California’s most famous post code all over again.

2008:

circa 1992:

And rightly so may I add.  Seriously (Old man) John McCain is 72 years old, if he has two terms do the math people he will be 80 years old at the end of it, thats if he makes it to that age.  Palin has ZERO experience, is an unknown and is a stroke away (pun) from the top job.