Speaking of summer I have quit umpiring cricket. After five years I have had enough and decided to free up my weekends.

I can’t believe that this weekend I’m actually going to get a two day weekend. Yes yes yes!

Having said that I’ve got nothing planned which is going to be sensational.

Something that I haven’t mentioned which I usually post on is an apple event. Most recently apple released the new MacBook and MacBook pros. Not having seen them in person my initial impressions are that the internals are great but I don’t like the external look.

Enough for this post, enjoy the rest of your day!

Nuff said about that.

Booked some more holidays. Now I know how all these people who say that ‘I can’t wait for my next holiday’ feel. Some much needed time off was great.

Yet aaun the bus is filling up again bit it’s the usual crowd ie no kids yet.

A little cold today which is probably the reason.

I love family guy.

Cricket season also started last weekend. All I had to do was go out there and call the game off. One end of the pitch was just mud.

It’s currently school holidays and boy are there too many kids around. Won’t they just hurry up and go back. Even worse the summer holidays are coming and they will be around all the time.

One thing that I’m not happy with at the moment is the fact that I haven’t been for a run in a five weeks. Really need to start doing it again.

I think I need another holiday again.

Yet again I’m going to mention that I am writing this blog post while on the bus on the way home.

Emo kids are making out just in front of me. Get a dam room. Dam school holidays.

Tthats it for now. Enjoy!

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The person who I’m staying with is working today so I’ve got the day to myself. I think I might have a snooze this afternoon but besides that nothing else is planned.

One thing for sure it doesn’t feel like I am on the otherside of the planet.

I’ve got a few picutres that have been taken from the trip over that I will link to when I get them up. Can’t remember if I have already posted this but I’m taking up apples sixty day free mobile me trial. It’s had issues I know but for the limited amount of time that a I used it it has been fine.

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This is where the wordpress app failed again. I got a sms, went to view it as the app has a recovery mode that should save my work. Well it didn’t, it only saved up to the point where I hit save before. Think I may need to get into the habbit of hitting save after every paragraph. SAVED!

Back to where I was

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The a380 is simply sensational. Extreemly quiet and has a powered USB port at every seat, even in economy. Awesome.

Watched my iPod the whole dam trip. Didn’t watch a single peice of entertainment offered by the airline.

First of all I was one of the pasengers that was requested to get on the plane because your fellow passengers are waiting foe you. Was dam duty free alright. I wanted some duty free. Hehe

Anyways thats all good.

I have some one doing calisthenics infrint of me. Funny as hell.

Got the best seat possible in economy. No seat infront of me. Ohhh the leg room. Boo yea.

So yea about that benny hin post. Oh thoes Christians as always make me laugh.

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Here I am now having a pint in Singapore. Haven’t paid for it yet but I’m fully expecting it to be the most expensive beer I’ve ever had. The joys of going through Singapore. Such a first world issue.

I’ve still got about 26 hours to go.

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Best thing about the pub I was just at is that they had wifi. My addiction was satisified. Sweet.

Now I’m in the departure lounge for my flight to London. All is good. Only got a bloody 14 hour flight ahead of me. Last time I went through Germany, this time I get to go straight to London. No stinky people, hopefully hehe.

Not yet missing work.

Another entry coming soon.

Smsing people in Scotland I’m that excited. It should be good. Have a nice rest.

Three weeks and four days off would sound good to just about anyone I would think.

As I sit here on this bus it is a nice gloomy adelaide, exactly what Scotland is going to be like.

Packing wise I’ve done nothing. I have a list. I have everything on the list. Just gotta get the list in
to the bag. Done it before I’m sure I can do it again.

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This is the point where the WordPress app crashed.

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Have popped up to the local bottelo and got a six pack of pale ale. Haven’t had this stuff in ages. I’m really a Budweiser man myself.

Gotta start packing now. 

Will try and blog tomorrow.

Hopefully this post gets me on my way.

Next week I’m off to Scotland for a few weeks. I should have a net connection with plenty of free time to do as I wish.

At this stage of the game I need a little rest from work. Over the last year and a half since starting at my current job I have only taken two annual leave days and no sick days. Good on me I say.

This post is solely being written on my new iPhone on the bus on the way home. Depending how this goes I might start doing this more often.

In other news I have the British and a league spreadsheets up and running. Hopefully more will be coming soon. All depends how much time I get while I’m in Scotland.

This weekend I also need to setup a gallery so that I some where to put the pics.

Have been toying over whether to get mobile me. It has an excellent gallery feature that wouldn’t have to be maintained by myself. Flickr also looks a good option but lacks a decent os x uploaded on my opinion.

Wow this bus trip is going nice and quickly today. I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner.

That it for now, almost home. Have a good one.

One work day to go.

It is setup to track the English Premier League, Coca Cola Championship, League One, League Two, Blue Square Premier League, the Scottish Premier League, FA Cup and the League Cup.

It can be downloaded here.

Even online, I hate shopping. At least I don’t have to deal with the people online.

I’ve got some shirts and hoodies from ThinkGeek. I’ve also got a hoodie and a shirt from Missing Bite.

Pity Jinx is down at the moment. I have a few tops that I want to get from their as well.

Now just need to get some jeans while I’m in town someday.

Yep, I’m heading back to the UK. This time instead of nine months it’s only going to be four weeks.

Lots and lots of stuff that I need to get done before hand.

Actually I’ve just been putting a ‘to-do’ list together. I’m going to be really busy for the next month.

Oh and for those of you wondering, getting some new spreadsheets and blog posts out are on the list.

Currently playing in iTunes: Predictable by Good Charlotte

The time has come and I am going to be heading back overseas in a couple of months time.

At this stage it looks as if I will off to England and Scotland in September.

The passport has been renewed. Flights have been investigated. Contact made with friends at the other end.

Interesting time are to come.

Currently playing in iTunes: Roads by Backyard Babies

In recent times I have been trimming down which podcasts get my ‘free’ time during the week (and sometimes weekend).

Recently my podcasts que reached over 24 hours. That’s quite large for me. I used to hate it getting greater than six hours. It seems as if I have constantly been about 2 to 4 weeks behind the game.

Luckily recently a couple of shows have either reduced their show loads or gone off the ‘air’.

Anyway, my recommended shows are as follows:
1. Geek News Central
2. MacBreak Weekly
3. Security Now
4. TWIT
5. G’Day World
6. The 2Web Crew
7. The AFL Show
8. The Biography Show
9. Typical Mac User
10. Windows Weekly

Yea it’s cool. I’ll probably end up eventually getting one (don’t know how I can justify it) but no new MacBook Pro’s.

Oh well, just ordered a 15″ MacBook Pro, new bag for the MBP, Office 2008 and an extra power cable.

Oh and Holland is beating Italy 2-0 in the current Euro 2008 game. Go Holland.

The something this time is a MacBook Pro. It will be the top of the line 15 inch model.

I’m not desperate for Apple to bump the specs but a ‘killer’ feature would be introduction of a BluRay optical drive.

iPhone stuff I don’t really care about. I’m not a phone guy.

The only other thing that I can conceive grabbing my attention is the introduction of what the next version of OS X will be like. Maybe even a Beta (very wishful thinking).

Dam I’m such a fanboi.

It poses a very good question – How much does Red Bull actually harm you?

Personally myself I do enjoy Red Bull and most days a week (work days) have at least one can.

There is no doubt that it does increase the heart rate and gives you an extreme caffeine kick but I really do find it hard to believe that it actually harms you and any long lasting way (unless you have an existing heart issue).

We need some more research into this topic as all I could find with a fairly quick Google and Wikipedia search was a whole load of contradictive stories.

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My main gripe is the lack of ethernet and usb port(s). Yes the notebook does have one USB port but if I am utilising my Vodafone 3G USB dongle then what else do I have room for.

At work I have to use the USB to ethernet adapter to even get the laptop onto the corporate network so once again this chews up the options that I have in regards utilising other peripherals.

I hate using trackpads. As I type I am using the MacBook with Vodafone 3G which means that I have to use the trackpad. I could get bluetooth mouse but I am yet to find one that is appealing to me like the VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse from Logitech.

If I had my time over I would have got a beefed up MacBook Pro that would most likely eventually take over as the main computer that i use.

So the time has come to look at getting a new phone. From my research I have pretty much narrowed it down to the Sony Ericsson K550i.

I’m not 100% set on the phone but it well and truly does everything that I need it to do and a few things that are nice.

I’m not a Sony fan but from previous experience with other people of have the CyberShot phones they seem to perform well and are sturdy.

I’m not considering the iPhone as a) it’s not out in Australia (yet) and b) I really can’t be stuffed getting one off of eBay or importing one, oh and c) if I was going to get an iPhone it must be 3G.