Today I joined the AUC (Apple University Consortium) bus tour that was organised to Silicon Valley.  A bright and sunny morning greeted us in San Francisco and we left the hotel at 9am.

The first stop was Fry's Electronics.  This store was something else - the closest I could come to describing it is Jaycar + Dick Smiths + JB HiFi + Harvey Norman ( Read more... )

Well, I'm in San Francisco!  Here's the first of hopefully a daily blog on my happenings and doings in the US of A.

The XPT trip to Sydney was pretty straight forward, there's not much to tell.  I ended trading SMS messages with my Dad on the way down, but it was getting a bit frustrating as the shielding on the train was stopping any sense of a ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off to Sydney tomorrow night on the XPT before flying to the US on Saturday afternoon.  I packed my suitcase tonight - well, Sal did... I started, but she said I was hopeless and did it for me. :P

I'll be blogging the technical part of my trip (touristy stuff will be posted here) over at my Tech blog, so jump over there and book mark it ( Read more... )

As the title suggests, I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for lunches when at work. I tend to make salad sandwhiches and the odd left overs from dinner the night before but I'm not 100% happyin the fact that it doesn't seem to be helping in my quest to lose weight. Anyone know of a website that has suggestions for lunch that would be feasible ( Read more... )

 A couple of weeks ago, I entered into a competition being run here in Bathurst called 'Bathurst's Biggest Loser'.  It was launched off the back of the latest season of Channel Ten's Biggest Loser TV show, although it has no real link to the show other than the end goal.  If you've been living under a rock, the idea is that over 12 weeks, you ( Read more... )

 Gah! What a morning ( Read more... )

Caitlin has gone away for a week with her grandparents this week ( Read more... )

Well, it's all systems go for WWDC.  The DVC Admin (who approves all international travel) approved my trip and signed off on my travel request.  The flights to and from the US have been booked.  I fly out on Qantas on Sat June 6 and get back on Monday June 15, but I don't get to ride the new A380. So, now that that's done, I can relax a bit.

I had an interesting weekend, to say the least.  Here's a whirlwind summary: put up shade cloth and polycarbonite shade on the pergola, played soccer for the first time in six months, drove to Sydney, nailed an L plater, played WoW with some friends and visited some family.

Saturday was spent putting up some new shade cloth on the pergola at our ( Read more... )

Well, last Thursday I received approval to go to WWDC from the Exec Director of my division.  All systems go for the US ( Read more... )