Sat
Oct 4
6:09pm
Just took my first ever Polaroid photograph
Absolutely magical watching it develop. I’m hooked.
I’ll be flat broke in 6 months with film at $43 for 20 shots but the joy is worth the spend.
Sat
Oct 4
9:01am
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Thinking about hunting for my old Lomo ActionSampler and firing off a roll today
Fri
Oct 3
4:41pm
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another week of work done and dusted. Sheesh they fly past quickly
Thu
Oct 2
9:10pm
Surfing 50 States - a surf flick with a difference
One day I’ll dream up a crazy scheme like this - two Aussie blokes spent most of 2007 filming themselves surfing all 50 states of the USA.
Presumably they carved it up in Hawaii, California and Florida, but obviously most of the other states are landlocked (although if you’ve seen Step Into Liquid you’ll know that it’s possible to surf the Great Lakes), so they decided that for the purposes of this trip “surfing” only had to involve standing on a surfboard with some kind of momentum.
According to them, they slid down a 15ft pile of potatoes in Idaho, got towed by a cowboy and his horse in Texas, and dropped over an 8ft waterfall in Massachusetts. I imagine the water was pretty cold in Alaska and Washington, and who knows what they did in the deserts of Phoenix and Nevada…? Sounds like the crazy bits from a Warren Miller movie. Could be good.
The film’s called Surfing 50 States, it premieres in Sydney in mid-October and there’s a showing at Surfworld in Torquay on the 18th. They have a trailer on YouTube - I’m off to watch it!
Thu
Oct 2
7:01pm
Thought -
Looking forward to trying out my new e-bomb wetty in the morning
Thu
Oct 2
4:52pm
Thought -
Just discovered another free wifi cafe near work. Barista Express in Equitable Place. Cool
Wed
Oct 1
2:01pm
links for 2008-09-30
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Another new YouTube feature improves the Insights for your videos
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Considering this for deployment at work.
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Now if only I had an idea for an app …….
Tue
Sep 30
8:22pm
Thought -
Think I might be suffering from Osteitis Pubis, brought on by my half-marathon training. Probably shouldn’t do the half now. Not happy.
Sun
Sep 28
6:25pm
I don’t like my Nike+ SportBand
My positive review of the Nike+ SportBand the other day must have offended the karma police for some reason, as halfway through today’s 14km run the display carked it.
Can’t read that display? No, nor can I.
And a quick Google search for “nike sportband display broken” takes me to the Nike+ forums, where there’s a thread titled “Sportband Display gone bad” with 9 pages of bad experiences.
It seems that sweat and/or condensation is the culprit in most cases. I can vouch for that - I have to unhook the device from the band and wipe the sweat off it when I’m done running. Some forum posters have reported that wearing it backwards (difficult to explain, but trust me) seems to help. My opinion is that it’s the small hole on the underside that’s presumably there to let sweat and moisture out actually lets it in instead.
Certainly there’s a design flaw there somewhere.
Strangely, the rest of it still seems to work. It recorded all 14km of my run. Hmmmm.
I bought mine at Foot Locker Geelong, so I’ll be back there next weekend for a replacement, I think. Fingers crossed that they come to the party.
Sat
Sep 27
12:52pm
Thought -
A 3ft flathead, or possibly shark, swam right underneath me in the surf this morning. Slightly freaky.
Thu
Sep 25
2:34pm
links for 2008-09-24
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Article about pro photographer David Burnett. Mentions his Holga camera
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Talks about the need to enable interaction on web sites, not just provide good content. A few years old but still relevant.
Wed
Sep 24
8:34pm
Gmail on your own domain
I’ve just successfully set up Gmail on my martinyoung.com.au domain. That’s not particularly relevant to the person emailing me, but it’s definitely better for me: I get all the benefits of Gmail (7gb of storage in the cloud, great spam filtering, IMAP etc etc) but with an @martinyoung.com.au address instead of an @gmail address.
If you want to have a crack yourself the instructions are here. I’ll be recommending it to my web clients - it renders the crappy webmail that you get via your hosting provider almost completely redundant.
On the web it’s the same as Gmail, but I can (and am about to) set up the account in Mac Mail to sit alongside my other email accounts. It’s just as easy to do that in Outlook.
The key is Google Apps. Read more about that here.