Worlds Colliding !!
Love this mashup of an iconic meme from World of Warcraft and one of the best scenes from Game of Thrones.
Worlds Colliding !!
Love this mashup of an iconic meme from World of Warcraft and one of the best scenes from Game of Thrones.
Stephen Colbert (now The Late Show) interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy. January 29, 2010.
Entertaining watch.
While we all are massively impressed with the scale of Apple’s operations, there is constant intrigue as to exactly how they pull it all off with the level of fit, finish and precision obvious to anyone who has examined their hardware.
Not planning on getting an Apple watch just yet. But this detailed explanation of the process is fascinating and really shows off what makes Apple different. The olde engineering student inside me is deeply impressed.
I’ve said many times, the introduction of the original unibody MacBook is probably one of the most underappreciated Apple events. Everything since, iPhone, iPad, Air, keyboards, Apple TV remotes, and now Apple Watch. It all started with that.
RIP Spock
[Update 2021: Old video taken down so here is another one]
Best of Web 7, from Luc Bergeron.
…and we’re back.
A couple of days late but I am relaunching my tech blog for 2015. This blog used to be under the Down Under Geek domain but I’ve decided to use an old name and brand for the relaunch – see more in About.
For the next few weeks its going to hopefully be daily postings just to get into a rhythm of what this blog will really be about. I already have some ideas but I’m guessing that will evolve.
Firstly – hello. Yes I am making another comeback to blogging. I’ve been working on this and other WordPress blogs in the background the last few months and pretty much ready to go.
Second – this is a bit of a test for some YouTube video embedding stuff I am trying.
C. ZOMFGBQQ we are going to old school Draenor and meeting the real Draenei. Can’t wait to visit this world again – makes me excited to be taking my lvl 53 hunter back thru Outland again instead of skipping it via PVP or even dungeons as I was planning. Might be good to pay attention and get the story again.
Not sure which is made better by the mix. I think Thunderstruck gets the nod.
[Update: The old video got taken down. Here’s a new one]
I saw the notification from CNN pop up on my iPhone sometime around the hour. Steve Jobs is dead.
My thoughts: Fuck. I hope this is another hoax. They are referencing the Apple website. Probably not a hoax. Fuck. Some kids just lost their daddy.
All in the space of a moment.
Fuckadee.
Today I was going to start blogging again on Down Under Geek.
I’ve been learning all about WordPress Multi Sites for a month or so in my spare time, tried a couple of test installations. WordPress MU sites allow you to run squillions of sites off one WP install. So when it comes time to upgrade something, you only do it once for all sites, not over and over again which was shitting me before.
So for the last few days I’ve been copying over the old DUG site to the new WP MU site and fiddling about with the settings. To blow smoke up my own ass I was impressed with a few of the predictions and thoughts. You can read them if you want. So I was keen to write more stuff down and get on with it, get it set up on my iPad and other places so I could blog from wherever. I twittered with Daniel from Mars Edit (Red Sweater) about his awesome app and the Mac App Store, possible future updates, iOS versions and updating.
I was almost good to go. Then the notification popped up.
To relaunch a tech opinion blog on such a sad day felt odd. Would it feel/seem opportunistic? Every many and his blog would be writing many inane pieces bemoaning the loss of their great leader. I mean no disrespect, but so few do it respectfully. I even saw smh.com.au doing a “live blog” of the news. Whores.
But no one reads this blog – it’s barely existed over the years since the domain was registered in a fit of inspiration one night. I would feel stranger to me to not say something, put some thoughts down, if only for me to read and look back on years later.
So today, I took my 2 year old daughter out to lunch with her mum, picked up the car from the dodgy auto mechanic who said we could drive our suv in NSW instead of Victoria from now on, came home, finished fiddling with WordPress, and started writing.
Although his kids will no doubt inherit a Fairly Large Trust, there is a 13 year old girl who lost her daddy tonight. And that sucks.
Paranoia Paranoia !!
I’m Not Sick But I’m Not Well!
What’s not to love – finally in fricken iTunes.