Paul Stovell’s blog linked to this site: Spyk.

You’ll need to use Internet Explorer though, since it doesn’t support Firefox properly (I havn’t tried Opera yet).

Basicly its a web two-point-oh + Virtual Earth applied to Property Searching (Rent/Buy) for Australia.

I tried it in a bunch of different places in Australia, and it worked, so it’s obviously linked to a few nation wide databases (not just a single agency either, I saw domain and realestate.com.au listed, not sure about others).

Point, hover and it shows you pictures (if available), and some other details — apply some filters (Property Type, Price Range, Bedrooms, Bathrooms), great, it works. Very nice, very fast… Very very cool.

The only bug is Australian Postcodes aren’t recognised all the time - sometimes it takes you off to random parts of the US, other times it works fine (it might be a distance issue? i.e try within 100KM, else go global). That’s probably a Virtual Earth issue though.

(Last post for the night, honest)

As I mentioned before, I want to learn C#.

So, to that end I went and got myself O’Reilly’s Learning C# 2.0, 2nd Edition, and I’m making my way through it slowly.
I’m only a chapter or four in so far — I’m now certain that

public void Test() { }

is identical to

Public Sub Test()
End Sub

.

The whole case-sensitivity issue will be a problem for me though. Ohwell.

The past few weeks we’ve been having progressively warmer weather - and I’ve been keeping my bedroom windows wide open. Last night I even turned on the fan all night to keep the air flowing (I like it when it’s cool at night).

It’s also hard to miss other changes — like the number of hot women walking past my window at work, wearing uhh… well, lets just say less clothing.

Ian wrote last month on his blog about The Last Days of Summer in the UK.

Looks like the hand-over of summer has taken place…

We’re preparing for a very dry summer again - with the likelihood of a big bush fire season occurring.
There’s also a been a change to warmer water in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, pointing towards an El Niño cycle*. Meaning floods and tornadoes in South America, and a worsening of the drought in Eastern Australia.

* = It hasn’t been declared El Niño yet, but it’s pointing that way.

Slashfood (not to be confused with Slashdot) is having a sandwich day.

They’re off to a roaring start with this artery hardening French Toast and Bacon Sandwich.

It looks like the US version of the McMuffins are different too — theirs is an Egg McMuffin, which has ham on it.

For any non-Aussie readers: The Australian Egg McMuffins come as one of Sausage & Egg McMuffin*, Bacon & Egg McMuffin, or just a regular old Egg McMuffin.

* = The “Sausage” component is really just a “spiced” burger patty… not a real sausage snag.

I disagree with their inclusion of the McMuffin and a Wrap in the sandwich category. See their definition of a Sandwich. To me, a sandwich is one or more pieces of bread with one or more fillings. (NB: In the case of using one piece of bread, it must be folded over the contents).

Eating with the hands is entirely optional - larger sandwiches may require structural support and a triple degree in engineering, biology and physics.

Wraps, Burgers, Muffins, Pita-Breads are all good - but they’re not a sandwich. Rolls are a borderline issue — they’re technically a single piece of bread. Oh, and things like melted cheese on toast are not sandwiches either… Unless you get two and uhh… sandwich ‘em together (or fold one in half).
Yes, it’s different… damnit!

in #dreamhost on irc.freenode.net tonight:

[00:07] <@MichaelS> how lame. verisign is implementing EPP for .com/.nets
[00:08] EPP?
[00:09] <@MichaelS> transfer auth codes
[00:09] ahh, I see
[00:09] and this is bad why?
[00:09] <@MichaelS> because it’s not fully required yet, and tucows happens to require it on their end, so transfers from/to DH to tucows aren’t working so well.
[00:10] <@MichaelS> tucows sez: PLZ2B GIVING AUTH CODE
[00:10] <@MichaelS> dreamhost sez: no auth code, dude!
[00:10] <@MichaelS> tucows sez: KBYE!
[00:10] <@MichaelS> that’s the technical description of what’s happening.

Good to know they’re on top of it