Kottke’s thought experiment: iPhone running Parallels. Don’t panic, it’s just a photo.
Category Archives: long
Apple TV
I hate to say it, but the new Apple TV device announced yesterday (and shipping in Australia next month, unlike the iPhone, which was on every news bulletin yesterday but won’t ship in Australia until 2008) seems a bit of a novelty item. It seems that the Apple TV will only play things from iTunes, …
keeping the birthday dream alive
new-shirt This is the last of my birthday presents (since it was bought with birthday money) – a new shirt for work. That’s a pretty good effort of stretching my birthday out from April through to January, I think!
cafe freddo
cafe freddo One of the drinks on my coffees t-shirt is the chilled cappucino, or cappucino freddo. When I spotted a cafe freddo on the menu at oven, I had to try it to see what such a drink is like: I haven’t seen one on a menu anywhere else! It’s a shot of coffee …
back.
Back from holidays. Had an excellent break from everything. More information to follow.
gone fishing
Off to the south coast for a week of holidaying. Back soon!
price and history
When you reading about history, and someone mentions a particular amount of money, how can you understand what that amount means? Mark Bernstein writes about Price and History, suggesting that an amount of money in one historical period can’t just be scaled by inflation to make sense of it in another era – there are …
eating out
Old faithful Healthy vietnamese food from a favourite venue in Burwood.It seems that the call of more strict budgeting might make this a less frequent treat.
Georgie bread
Georgie bread Somewhere between the over-processed gingerbread that houses are built out of, and the home made gingerbread man that childhood memories are made of is this menu offering at george gregan café in north sydney.
spurgeon quote
Our God will supply us with those choice graces and consolations which shall strengthen us to glorify his name even in the fires. He will either make the burden lighter, or the back stronger; he will diminish the need, or increase the supply.