A colleague called me over to look at their WinPC today. She plugged in her iPod and it appeared in iTunes, but the name and music were not hers! It was like it was someone else’s iPod. The music played, everything worked, but it was 6Gb of someone else’s stuff! Spooky!!
Month: January 2006
google maps – zoomier than before?
Has Google Maps just added another feature? They used to come thick and fast – but almost always on a weekend.
Today I visited an old bookmark and found ‘We are sorry, but we don’t have imagery at this zoom level for this region.’, which was odd, because I know I had it at maximum zoom before. No, it seems like they’ve added two new levels of zoom to their imagery.
This thumbnail shows the swimming pool at Australia’s top secret Nuclear Facility. On the left is the old ‘zoom level 0’, on the right is the new ‘zoom level 1’ – there is no data available at the new level 0.
I still haven’t found an area in Australia supported by the new zoom levels – the ones in the US I’ve seen are eye-popping. I know there have been super high res areas before, but I’d be interested to hear if others are seeing this the same way I am.
apres cave
When you’ve ‘done’ with the caves at Buchan, what can you do? Well, there’s a very nice walk to a place called Granite Pools that’ll get your appetite up, but what do you do then?
Well, we’d done the tourist walk through Royal cave – quite spectacular and beautiful – and then a good long walk, so when we returned to our car to find a flyer under the windscreen wiper advertising a gourmet cafe, we felt obliged to give it a try.
Very welcoming it was too, like a little bit of Brunswick Street in Buchan. Comfy chairs, eclectic decor, smooth jazz, enthusiastic staff and a tempting menu, The Two Fat Ladies and her delivered on most counts, though unfortunately the food wasn’t up to the promise of the name. It was good, but lacked finesse. Still, we enjoyed it thoroughly and this was only it’s third week in operation, so there’s plenty of potential for improvement. Definitely worth a visit.
dinosaurs
I’ve just seen the news report about a protest by Victoria’s Mountain Cattlemen – leading cattle, in defiance of the new laws, into the mountains in the Wonongatta Valley in the east of the state. I know it’s romantic, and it’s been going on for over a hundred years, but I’m afraid – at least in my opinion – they’re wrong!
the bridge that fell…
This is the section of The Westgate Bridge which fell while under construction on 15th October, 1970, killing 35 workers.
We lived nearby and I was in school (grade 4) at the time, and I remember an announcement coming over the public address calling children whose fathers worked on the bridge to the office. Thought nothing of it at the time, but gives me chills now.
There is a recently renovated memorial park underneath the bridge span – it’s a beautiful spot.
More information about the disaster and the memory here.
what I did on my holidays…
Back at the coalface today, bit of a letdown after a fabulous 11 day break. A relaxing Christmas with family and far too much good food, but a few other items of note.
Fly Fishing: those of you who know me well, will be aware that I don’t get out fishing anywhere near enough to satisfy my wishes, but holiday times offer me a glimmer of hope. So, boxing day saw my father-in-law and I head up via Adaminaby to an old favourite stream. Perfect weather, swarms of grasshoppers, and abundant small Rainbow trout intent on self-harm, punctuated by the occasional slightly larger brown. Nothing huge, but a wonderful day out… definitely what keeps me coming back.
Then there was the heat. I’m also a fairly keen weather watcher (you have to be living in Melbourne!), so the prediction of a 42° New Year’s Eve had me nervously watching the numbers. At noon, it looked like being a fizzer – the unpredictability of Melbourne’s weather seemed to have got the better of the forecasters. Even at 3pm when we went into a movie theatre, it was only 32°, but when we came out a couple of hours later it was 10° hotter… amazing. The airport recorded 43° and 43.1° on consecutive hours. So, it was a sticky and uncomfortable New Year’s Eve, we saw the fireworks at Docklands and went home to a restless night. Melbourne didn’t disappoint… the next morning there was rain, a south westerly and we were wearing jumpers! I love Melbourne!!