Sunday drive with 7 MINI Cooper S’s. Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 16 March 03
The Word Spy linguistic zeitgeist.
Category: mini
MINI, Travel
I miss my family. And my MINI. In that order. 14 hours in economy from LAX to SYD, and according to Qantas last night – the flight is at 100% capacity. Oh joy oh bliss.
MINI
Back at work after 2 weeks off. Strangely enough, exactly 17 years ago today I started work at an Apple reseller in Adelaide.
MINI Cooper: North American Car of the Year. It is such a shame that the journos at Wheels in Australia had to give the Car of the Year to a mere Ford…
Go and see the documentary-movie Bowling for Columbine. Whilst Michael Moore has chosen footage and interviews to promote his point of view, it is an interesting take on guns and violence: especially in the US.
MINI
Another weekend, more time in the MINI Cooper S. Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 24 Nov 02
MINI Meet
What I get up to now on the weekend: Sydney MINI Cooper S Meet 10 Nov 02
A cognitive breakthrough. Instead of coding a particular query/transform of XML, I wrote an XSLT and transformed the XML. Saved many lines of coding and now understand “Why XSLT?”
My New MINI!
MINI
I picked her up two hours ago. She’s pretty, dark green, and I think I am in love. Oh, yes, I am talking about the MINI Cooper S…
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Pick up the MINI Cooper S Thursday Morning (24th) Woohoo!
Adobe Server Product Range Lots of new server things.
MINI
Getting a MINI Cooper S next week. Woohoo! Its a little sad to see the Honda Civic VTiR go, but I am sure it will serve the next driver well.
DNS issues still up in the air, but getting closer to being resolved. Just waiting for the nickhodge.com IP change to propogate out onto the Internet and resolve to the new server. Then I’ll transfer to the appropriate DNS host.
My Next Car
Mini Cooper, my next car Its all about the style. Yeah, baby!
How did I miss out on The Smiths in my younger days? Morrissey and Marr rock! How Soon Is Now is a classic I remember from the 80s, but their music is really, really… good. The line I am the son/and the heir sounds almost like I am the sun/and the air – a completely different meaning and spin on the song altogther. This creativity in lyric and music is equally only by early Lennon/McCartney and of course, Neil Finn.
I just love it when the software you create does something that you don’t expect! In the Adobe PDF & Acrobat section, I’ve added the links to the updaters to Acrobat 5.0.5. They now appear in the overview for this section – and the navigation on the right handside. The layout of these areas are automatically created from the content in the database. This wasn’t designed, and not the intent when creating the feature. But works the way you would (sort) of expect. Cool.
Last year I purchased a baby Firewire hard drive. I’ve plugged it into my Windows XP Dell Latitude C800 (which has built in Firewire) and reformatted the 10Gb drive. I selected FAT32 as I know that MacOS X can read this, too. Backed up my data, and mounted the same drive on the Titanium PB. MacOS X can see the FAT32 volume (albeit not reading the volume label/name correctly) and read/write data too! I don’t think I would trust all of these devices plugged in together at the same time…
WindowsXP Likes: faster hibernation, neater hardware removal interface, hiding service icons, new control panel interface and ‘helpers’ on the left in explorer windows, nesting of windows for an application in its icon on the start bar. All minor.
Oh, also some work related stuff. The MacOS Acrobat 5.0.5 Updater is now available. (Most) of the components are MacOS X native.