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In my last post I joked about see games on billboards in games, turns out that EA already does this and Obama is using them to spread his vote-for-change message.

Two interesting bits of news from Google today.

I really struggle to wrap my head around economics sometimes and the US (or is it a global) economic crisis is all pretty confusing (and crazy with the $700 billion dollar bail out bill getting the go ahead).

“Beached as Bro” And techno styles

Urrggh, its that time of the year again when daylight savings kicks in.

It’s Googles 10th birthday and they have put together a neat little timeline showing major milestones during their history.

With heavy guitar music and much fanfare the first Google Android handset has been released by T-Mobile.

Ooooooo, Just found a link to the new Google Chrome browser on my Google home page.

Well things seem to be heating up in the Android world… First off the new version of the SDK (0.9) became available.

For the first time in human history the Arctic can now be circumnavigated.

Well I had any number of “useful” suggestions as to what the heck is growing on my lawn including: star jelly, my growing clone (on my front lawn??)

Any Botonists, UFOlogists or Ghostbusters out there ?

Here are the slides for a quick presentation I gave on Bubbles!

Just for kicks I decided to port the backend services for my Google Android app, Bubbles!

He he, Just found this article about a blue screen of death (BSOD) during the Olympic opening ceremony on Gizmoda.

Ok now that is just a bit upsetting.

I was just sent a link to an article about Virgin Australia’s new iPhone plans.

One of the things that bugs me most about NZ politics is that there isn’t a political party that I actually like.

About to start upgrading my blog to use version 2.6 of WordPress.

I received a little present yesterday, a shiny new iPhone to play with (but unfortunately not too keep).

Yep so Vodafone announced their plans for the iPhone release this week in New Zealand; what a disaster… After getting everyone all frenzied last week with statements like “an iPhone from $199” the ugly truth emerged: Sure you can get an iPhone for only $1…

I’m in the midst of transferring my domain to a new registrar (to consolidate things) but there seems to be some major mix up going on and the transfer keeps failing :( So this site might drop off the web for a wee while…

Why do I always look so silly in photographs ?

Wow I certainly scored a lot of great birthday goodies this year.

So the landscaper has started at my house.

So Google has released the judge’s scoring for the Android applications.

Just received an email from the Android Developer Challenge team, seems that Bubbles!

As I mentioned in my last post I updated my media PC to Ubuntu 8.04 without any issues.

Just prior to my Christmas break last year I “dropped” my laptop as it was hibernating, it was only an inch or so as I put it down but the knock was hard enough to corrupt my Windows registry!

Well working into the wee hours of the morning I finally finished off my Google Android Developer Challenge entry.

The BBC has an article on the peace sign, which recently turned 50 years old.What was really interesting was its origins, apparently it was created as a symbol for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the the 1950s.

Found this very nice “design” site called NOTCOT.org.

Grabaseat now has an official blog.

I’m forever running out of books to read and never quite make it to the library so my interest was piqued when my friend Tim told me about a website you could download free sci-fi from.

I borrowed a water blaster from my in-laws to clean off a fence, figured it would be messy and tedious but truth be told I love it.

So I have a new site up and running.

Summer seems to finally here and whilst waiting for Portal to finish downloading, I thought I’d update my blog’s theme.

Not quite what the licensing department had in mind when they decided to allow customized plates :) BOL0X belongs to my work mate, Dave…

Very very cool.

So I decided (after much pressure from my workmates) to do Movember again.

This is pretty cool.

A cool time lapsed video of an Air New Zealand plane getting a new paint job to promote their holiday stores rebranding.

Here is a quick vid I put together covering some of the neat things I saw at SIGGRAPH.

Facebook is a fantastic site but last week they went from been a closed social network to a more open one.

Back at work now for a couple of weeks which is OK but not quite as fun as being in the USA :) Have been playing with ZBrush 3.1 for which there was a free upgrade.

Its very cool.

Ok I’ve gone a little crazy….

Just added the finishing touches to my Facebook application.