Myself, Brad Hards and Clarence Dang met up in the city to play catch up. It was nice to finally meet Brad, who lives in Canberra and has been in Sydney the last few days. We met up in the heart of the Sydney CBD and walked over to the Rocks and grabbed some noodles and then ice cream for desert.
Here are some photos of the three of us in front of some iconic Australian icons.
Scroggin and I went tried to go to a Leonardo da Vinci exhibition on Friday, but it was stupidly closed so instead we hired a really tacky pedal car and rode it around Centennial park for an hour.
I had a great time, but soon go a little tired of the roads and decided to take us off roading a little into the swamp dirt track!
The path was so tight that we couldn’t turn the vehicle and a few people on the walk had a laugh and made fun of us because we had to push the bike backwards 
Found this little beast on my wall when I was going to bed a couple of weeks ago, right above my pillow. Needless to say, I wasn’t too concerned about needing a guardian in the night, so I gave him a new home.
Max Howell has been in Sydney the last week. For those of you who don’t know him, you should read up on his coding wizardry at his site, and then salute him. We spent the day hanging out, admiring Bondi beach and of course drinking beer.
He also astutely pointed out that USB connectors are bloody annoying because they are always (tried to be) connected upside down. Now fix it, Max!
I did something terrible. I attempted to update my gallery installation on the web server and I did a pretty good job of permanently erasing all of my photos which I had hosted. Adding insult to injury, I took a backup of the database, but I forgot to copy over the gallery data (images, etc). That got wiped hard and clean.
Because so much of my web server time was spent managing gallery and making sure it integrated into my blog, I’m not going to put myself through the pain all again. So I decided that I should use Flickr - the easy uploading, a kipi-plugin and the social reputation that could be made for myself was all the convincing that I needed. By the time I realised that non pro users can only show the 200 most recent photos, I had already commit to the service. Maybe I’ll upgrade. Probably worth it to know that I can sleep without worrying about deleting all my files. Do you have a flickr account? Befriend me!
