Monday, March 30, 2009

First chat session on 'Omegle'

Rather than try and explain... here is the header from their site...

Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like.

Footy is back!

Friday night and the Cats v Hawks season opener and Grand Final rematch was on at Moose's Down Under so I dragged Jon and Mike along to watch and have a meat pie and a snake bite.


Friday, March 27, 2009

Old School Track of the Week - Shout out @thelastminute


Bell Biv Devoe - Above The Rim

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Elements of Hip Hop

Last night I went to the Elements of Hip Hop gig at Gossip, featuring Rahzel, DJ Muggs and MC Supernatural. The club was awesome but there wasn't nearly enough people there to fill it. The old boys busted out though...




Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Next Michael Jordan: Part VIII - Kobe Bryant | The Hoop Doctors


Just watching Jordan score 69 points against the Cavs in 1990 on NBA's greatest games and came across this at the same time...

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Updating your Go Daddy email address... easy!!

OK so this is what you have to do to change your contact email address with Go Daddy... and believe it or not it's actually more convoluted than it looks!

There are three email addresses associated with your account: your main account contact information, the contact information for your domains, and your billing information. To ensure that all email messages related to your account are sent to the correct email address, please update all three of these to include the correct email address.

To Update Your Main Account Email Address

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Account section, click Account Settings.
  3. Click Account Security Information.
  4. In the Email and Confirm Email fields, enter the new email address.
  5. In the Current Password field, enter your password, and then click Save Changes.

To Update Your Domain Contact Email Address

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Products section, click Domains.
  3. Select the domain(s) for which you want to update the email address, and then click Contact.
  4. Update the email address on all four tabs (Registrant, Admin, Technical, and Billing).

    NOTE: You can also update the email address on any one tab, and then select Update all contact types with this contact information.

  5. Click OK.

    If your domain has privacy enabled, the Contact icon remains grayed out. To update the email address for a domain with privacy, you must access your Domains by Proxy account and change the email address there. For more information, visit the Domains by Proxy Web site.

To Update Your Billing Contact Email Address

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.
  2. In the My Account section, click Credit Card & Payment Info.
  3. Select the payment method that you want to update, and then click Update Payment Option.
  4. In the Email field, enter your current email address, and then click Save Changes.
  5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each payment method that requires the new email address.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Chillin in Nanaimo

Jon had booked two jobs in Nanaimo for Wednesday and Friday and asked if I'd like to tag along for the three days. Since I hadn't been, I accepted and we booked in at the Painted Turtle Hostel for two nights.


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Horseshoe Bay ferry to Nanaimo

We got the 10.30am ferry over. Jon went straight to work and I went off to explore Nanaimo... it didn't take very long. Met up with Jon around 1pm and we went to the Acme Steak & Sushi for a $5 lasagna (no we didn't get steak or sushi) and a couple of pints and discussed the ins and outs of linking and syncronising all of our social media apps... riveting discussion!


Wednesday night we got some beers (40's) and played trivial pursuit for about 3 hours before heading out to the Palace Pub for some pool and some karaoke. Jon did Backstreet Boys and I did Frank... as usual. Then we transitioned into Club 2-4-1 next door for the first wet t-shirt competition of 2009. 5 contestants and about 12 onlookers. Epic!

The Painted Turtle Hostel kitchen

Thursday we had breakfast at a diner just around the corner then went back to the hostel for a 3 hour hangover nap. We asked Bruce (the hostel owner from near Batemans Bay) what we should do for the afternoon and he suggested getting the ferry over to Newcastle island and go for a walk around then get it over to Protection Island and get dinner at the Dinghy Dock floating pub. We spent about an hour on Newcastle (I think we were te only ones there) and then Greg picked us up and took us the 150m or so over to the Dinghy Dock pub. We had seafood pasta which was awesome!


An early dinner of seafood pasta at the Dinghy Dock Pub on Protection Island

Evening view from the pier at Dinghy Dock Pub on Protection Island

We went back to the hostel around 7.30 and had a few beers and played some foosball before heading back to the Palace for a few games of pool with some VERY drunk locals.

Friday morning we had breakfast at the same diner (can't remember the name) and then Jon went off to his other shoot. I went off exploring the town again (it wasn't any more exciting the second time) and then we met up at about 2.30 back at the hostel and went with a couple of Swiss girls from the hostel to the Old Country Market at Coombs. After that little adventure we headed back to catch the 7pm ferry back to the mainland.

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Monday, March 9, 2009

Boarding at Grouse Mtn

Last minute decision to head to Grouse today after having a decent snowfall last night. There was quite a bit on the ground downtown and when we arrived at the base of the mountain it was looking even better...


The sun was shining and there was hardly anyone else up there and the snow was the best I've ever experienced.

After hitting a couple of runs flat out we got a bit cocky and attempted to get from one black diamond to another through the trees. We DID see the sign that read 'Cliff' but obviously were feeling pretty damn invincible so carried on trying to make our way through. Then we decided to take our boards off and step down over the rocks, logs and trees. Then Jon took a massive tumble and things got very dicey. I had my hand in the pocket ready to call in the rescue teams but we managed to pluck our boards out of the trees after we both lost them and slid down and back onto one of the runs.



Thursday, March 5, 2009

Pimped out ride at Van airport


Went out to Vancouver airport to catch up with Aidan on her stopover on the way from Kelowna to San Fran today.

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Monday, March 2, 2009

LA Roadtrip


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OK so it's 10.30pm Wednesday night and I get a call from Danielle who is moving from Seattle to LA the next day to start a new job. A few days ago I said that I would come with her for the drive and fly back. It was one of those things you say but you're not sure if you're even serious or not. Anyway she asks if I'm still keen to make the trip down so now I have to put my money where my mouth is and make a decision. I tell her I'll call her back that night or in the morning after I check out flights back etc. So after a bit of thought and a little research online I made the decision to go... nothing like being spontaneous I say!

So Thursday morning I get up and pack a bag and head to the Greyhound for the 10.20am bus to Seattle. It is a prefect day in Vancouver and we had a semi-decent snow fall overnight and I had to tell Jon that boarding was off... oh well you can't do everything and I had an image in my head of a perfect day at the beach in LA and soaking up some much needed sun.

The bus arrived in Seattle at about 3pm and Danielle picked me up from the Greyhound station downtown. We had to make a few stops to drop off some bits and pieces to some of her family and friends and ended up heading out of town around 5.30pm. We were headed for her 'Auntie's' place in Vancouver, Washington, just before the Oregon border and Portland. We arrived at 9pm and were greeted with a massive Singaporean dinner... "Eat until you drop" were the instructions from Ruby. She was absolutely hilarious talking non-stop and telling all sorts of funny stories. I eventually had to crash at about midnight and try and get some sleep before I had to drive the next day.

The next morning (Friday) we awoke at about 7am to a massive cooked breakfast. Ended up leaving the house around 10am and drove an hour south to the Woodburn outlet mall where we did a little shopping... for 3 1/2 hrs. Ended up leaving there at 3.30pm for the remaining 9.5 hr drive to San Francisco. After missing a couple of turns we arrived at Adrian's (Danni's friend from Uni) place in Tiburon, just outside San Fran, at just after 1am. We didn't waste too much time getting to bed.

The next morning (Saturday) we went for brunch with Adrian and his girlfriend near their place and then drove into the city, stopping at the Golden Gate and the 'Crookedest Street' for some pics before getting on the road again just after 1pm.


The drive to LA was pretty good, with perfect weather, straight roads and little traffic. I drove until about 6.30pm when we were a couple of hours out of LA and Danielle took the wheel. Five minutes later we were pulled over by the CHiPs (California Highway Patrol) and booked for going 90 in a 70 zone... not a good end to the trip!



We kept to the limit after that and arrived at Danielle's new apartment just after 9pm. We had a couple of drinks with her flatmates and then walked down to the bars by the beach and had a couple there but were way to tired to stay very long.

Sunday we got up pretty early and went down to the beach again for some breakfast then threw the football on the beach for a bit. It was a perfect day of about 26C and the place was packed full of people playing volleyball, busking, eating, biking, rollerblading, fishing and even surfing. Then Jonno, Danielle's flatmate came down with his bike and we hired bikes and rode with him along the beach to Manhattan Beach where we went to a bar and met up with some of his mates and drank beers for a couple of hours, including about an hour session of 'flip-cup'.

A lemonade stand... just like in the movies!

Manhattan Beach

That night we went back down to the beach for some Mexican food then back to bed.

Monday morning we went straight to the airport where I got a flight Back to Van and Danielle few to NYC to start her new job.

What a whirlwind trip!!!

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