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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Police State of mind

Welcome to Sydney. Famous for its policing which is either over zealous or non existent.

Initially I wasn’t particularly fussed about this group of politicians holding a meeting in Sydney.
But then it became apparent that that our government officials were taking this little gathering wayyyyy too seriously. To the point were they were actively discouraging people from making their opinions felt with a public demonstration.
For months our officials have been talking up potential violence, blowing our taxes on fencing us out of a chunk of our own city, buying water cannons, and digging up an astounding number of police to line the footpaths.
A hundred and fifty million dollars spent on security, that is able to be breached by a comedy sketch show posing as a Canadian delegation.
I can't believe that NSW tax payers are prepared to accept such incompetence and oppression.



The way I see it, I helped pay for the APEC party. I should at least go down and see what sort of fun I was missing out on.I’m finding it hard to believe that for all those years we were bagging out Queensland for being a ‘police state’ when Joh B was around.
Check this shit out...


It's bizarre what Sydney will spend money on. APEC instead of fixing the country tracks we call roads. Desalination plants rather then recycling.





Sunday, September 9, 2007

APEC march

I’m taking a short break from the whales.
I was a part of the APEC march which was held on Saturday, by a variety of groups, for a verity of reasons.
These are some quick grabs and I’ll post something better cut, with a write up later.

APEC protest march 08: Rain

APEC protest march 08

APEC protest march 08: Marching

APEC protest march 08: Billionaires






Tuesday, August 28, 2007

We had a witch’s moon tonight.

Great big ‘teabag coloured’ luna arcing across the sky.

Last time I saw that I was in York,
where I climbed a mound erected by William the Conqueror with a gay girl and a
tall blond wanderlust infected Kiwi guy.

The bloody churches where also ringing the crap out of their
bells then.

This means I’ve seen a blood moon in both hemispheres.



Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Bout bloody time…



First there was the implementation of a standard headphone jack and now...

http://www.everythingusb.com/nokia_8600_luna_13128.html
 
It’s as though Nokia has been reading my blogs.

Took my 6600 away with me on holiday last week and found it interesting to be back on the old unit for a while.
I’m even more convinced that Nokia has gone backwards with the design of the Dpad on the N95.
The joystick on the 6600 is a lot more positive in its action. Reminds me of the old days when micro switches appeared in C64 joysticks.
I’ve been trying to work out why Nokia would have used such a mushy input point in the N95, and beside trying to cut corners with the cost of manufacture, the only other excuse I can think of is the slimness of the sliding screen section. Maybe there just isn’t the room to mount a 6600 style joystick?



Thursday, August 2, 2007

Photo blog





I'm off for a week, so here are some photos dedicated to the people who have made some very nice comments ;-)