I’m off to Sydney for a few days — taking photos etc.

Back some time after 1st Jan, so - see you then.

One of my favorite TV Shows is set to get an RPG in 2007. Apparently it’ll be “using the same game system as the best-selling and award-winning Serenity Role Playing Game“. 

If it hasn’t clicked yet, they mean an old-school Role Playing Game.

I guess I’ll have to wait for the open-source project “Beyond the Red Line” to get going, though that’ll be a space sim, rather than an RPG.

Saw this in the backyard. More fiddling with Adobe Lightroom (very cool, btw - Thanks Adobe).

I think they’re breeding or something, ’cause I was buzzed a dozen or so times whilst walking around (they’re native wasps, and don’t have a stinger)

This is… rather dark, partly to do with the colouring weirdness.

Seriously - I see these things in dilbert and laugh. Then I stop, and remember that I’ve had this discussion dozens of times.

Argh.  (I compiled a list of at least six, but decided to stop since it was just too depressing)

Hey, Ian - this one’s for you. How goes the Xbox?

Although incorrectly reported once (and made into a song by LA Style), it appears that James Brown really is dead.

“Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. Monday, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. Longtime friend Charles Bobbit was by his side, he said.” (Yahoo)

(No, I didn’t really know any of his music, I just remember snatches of the LA Style song on Rage)

(For some reason the colouring is a bit messed up at the moment, I’ll track it down and fix it soon)

I skipped the photos of the seafood, salads, and deserts. 

Hello? Northern Hemisphere? About that snow you were missing — we’ve found it. It’s laying around Tasmania and Melbourne at the moment.  Would you please come and collect it? kthx.

Seriously - this is more f’ed up weather. A white winter in Australia?

However you say it (or even if you don’t) - Merry Christmas folks.

BBSpot, always good for a laugh, has an article up about how Lesuire Suite Larry will use the wiimote.

So, last week I mentioned that something… interesting had happened, which resulted in me ceasing to post on here for a little while.

Well, it wasn’t anything major - but it has made me reconsider just how private this blog really isn’t.  I suppose it shouldn’t be a suprise - there’s actually a suprising number of people (to me, anyway) hitting this site… Whether you’re actually reading or not - I’m not certain. But, anyway - apparently some of you do.

I’m a regular participant on Whirlpool’s Forums, for the most part in the Coding & Web section.  Mostly I’m helping (or trying to help) point people in the right direction - or putting up some sample code to solve a problem if appropriate.

Anyway, last week apparently someone from a recruiting company noticed me, and followed the links back through to this blog. From there, they decided to contact me and let me know about a certain position that was being advertised, through their employer. 

So, this is what got me re-thinking about what I was posting, what I was saying, and what kind of impact that could have upon future employment opportunities, etc. 

But, well… I’ve decided I’m not going to change my posting habits. If I find something I think is interesting, I’ll post a link to it. If I’ve got something which I want to rant about, I’m going to rant about it.  One thing I don’t do is post inappropriate comments about my employer.   Don’t like it? Well, tough.

PS: No, I didn’t apply for the position. (They needed experience with some software which I hadn’t touched before). Oh, and to “S”, if you read this - Thanks for the email, really - but it was a bit of a shock to the system to get your email, and read how you’d found me.