So majestic, so sad, so beautiful
read about Glacier break up
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Talking about energy
I'm thinking of those millions of people everyday huffing and puffing in gyms on treadmills and stepladders, and all that energy going to waste. Why not harness it to generate electricity? Hey gyms, how about it? Good way to save on your power costs too!
And how about children? Have you seen how much energy they expend - all that hyperactivity. Why not a device to capture and store that energy generated at playgrounds and kid centres, for use elsewhere?
And how about children? Have you seen how much energy they expend - all that hyperactivity. Why not a device to capture and store that energy generated at playgrounds and kid centres, for use elsewhere?
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Where have you been all my life?
My cousin Judy bought me a Monica Quen cheongsam and when mum brought it home from Malaysia to Australia, I fell in love. Next time I'm in M'sia, I know where I'm headed!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
revision of Singapore lessons
Hello Tony, Vron,
Thank you so much for your generosity and kindness to me, I shall never be able to repay you for the love & care you showed me, not to say that I won't try!
It's been over a week since I've returned from Singapore and your wonderful loving and generous attention and training on makeup, hair, fashion, food, IT etc, so I thought that I should revise my new found wisdom before I forgot it:
"Last for a Lifetime"
It's important to choose good designer clothes, handbags & shoes that are so good that they will Last for a Lifetime, even if you may not want them to last a lifetime, because they may take a lifetime to pay off, but in the meantime you'll look real hot and have all the necessary props to attract the Right Man. (see next lesson)
"Duly Employed"
The first, and possibly, only criteria, when choosing the Right Man, unless of course he's too Bland and Asks too many questions without telling you anything about himself and Looks Like He's in his 60s instead of his (youthful looking) 50s. In addition to the only criteria above, it's important to ensure that any potential life partner is thoroughly vetted by Veronica & Tony over dinner, and he may need to answer the same question "So what do you do?" a few times in one evening as each vetter will want to hear the answer individually.
"Rumbly"
This is a very useful all purpose Veronica-designed word because it is a quality NOT to have when choosing clothes. Rumbly is a combination of rumpled, crumpled, busy. I must not buy or wear Rumbly clothes. I must choose clean lines, clear colours, bright pink lipsticks. I must wear blush.
So those 3 lessons are my Singapore life lessons in a nutshell, courtesy Vron my kindest, bestest friend, and Tony the supporting act who dares to steal the limelight from Vron, sometimes.
Again, thank you from the bottom of my rumbly heart (& tummy which misses all the yummy food)!
Thank you so much for your generosity and kindness to me, I shall never be able to repay you for the love & care you showed me, not to say that I won't try!
It's been over a week since I've returned from Singapore and your wonderful loving and generous attention and training on makeup, hair, fashion, food, IT etc, so I thought that I should revise my new found wisdom before I forgot it:
"Last for a Lifetime"
It's important to choose good designer clothes, handbags & shoes that are so good that they will Last for a Lifetime, even if you may not want them to last a lifetime, because they may take a lifetime to pay off, but in the meantime you'll look real hot and have all the necessary props to attract the Right Man. (see next lesson)
"Duly Employed"
The first, and possibly, only criteria, when choosing the Right Man, unless of course he's too Bland and Asks too many questions without telling you anything about himself and Looks Like He's in his 60s instead of his (youthful looking) 50s. In addition to the only criteria above, it's important to ensure that any potential life partner is thoroughly vetted by Veronica & Tony over dinner, and he may need to answer the same question "So what do you do?" a few times in one evening as each vetter will want to hear the answer individually.
"Rumbly"
This is a very useful all purpose Veronica-designed word because it is a quality NOT to have when choosing clothes. Rumbly is a combination of rumpled, crumpled, busy. I must not buy or wear Rumbly clothes. I must choose clean lines, clear colours, bright pink lipsticks. I must wear blush.
So those 3 lessons are my Singapore life lessons in a nutshell, courtesy Vron my kindest, bestest friend, and Tony the supporting act who dares to steal the limelight from Vron, sometimes.
Again, thank you from the bottom of my rumbly heart (& tummy which misses all the yummy food)!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
ocarina on my iphone
The latest thing to light up my life. I can't understand why, when I told a couple of people they weren't, like, WOW. It is incredibly magical.
I love the idea that I can blow softly into my iphone to create beautiful music - it turns it into a real musical instrument - an ocarina! Check out this musician's Zelda Song of Storms here
I love the idea that I can blow softly into my iphone to create beautiful music - it turns it into a real musical instrument - an ocarina! Check out this musician's Zelda Song of Storms here
Monday, March 05, 2007
Test your Psi
How good is your psychic ability? Here are some interesting and fun games with immediate feedback, designed by Dean Radin (What the Bleep fame, from shiftinaction.com etc)
http://www.gotpsi.org/bi/gotpsi.htm
And for fun Psi games:
http://www.psiarcade.com/
http://www.gotpsi.org/bi/gotpsi.htm
And for fun Psi games:
http://www.psiarcade.com/
Monday, January 29, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Wet relief
Phew.. a few days of concerted rain, rain, rain (50mm?) finally.. after the driest, scariest drought I've seen since moving to the countryside 4 yrs ago. When front gardens start looking yellow and dead, and farmers in tears are having to shoot their livestock, and extreme water restrictions and fines are in place, well, it's all getting like a surreal horror movie, and it's no wonder people in this driest continent Australia start to think about moving somewhere else wetter!
The dry relentless heat has now been broken up and it's been cooler, moister. Unfortunately for those in Mildura, there are serious floods - we would have been there right now for the Expo if we'd decided to go and I could imagine our river houseboat floating up the city streets. An unsettling fantasy.
The dry relentless heat has now been broken up and it's been cooler, moister. Unfortunately for those in Mildura, there are serious floods - we would have been there right now for the Expo if we'd decided to go and I could imagine our river houseboat floating up the city streets. An unsettling fantasy.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Implicit Association Test
So you think you're not a racist, feel that women and men are equal, etc? Try these tests and shock yourself. http://www.implicit.harvard.edu
I'm an Asian female (a double shortcoming according to an Australian white male interviewer years ago). Being an educated and broadminded person, I like to think that I see every person as a unique soul underneath the superficial appearance of skin colour, race, sex, nationality, religion... Was I surprised when I did the Race Test (which Malcolm Gladwell describes in Blink and which also disturbed him when the results showed differently to what he consciously thought and felt). These tests show up your unconscious attitutes which may not correlate to your conscious attitudes. Disturbing eye openers!
I'm an Asian female (a double shortcoming according to an Australian white male interviewer years ago). Being an educated and broadminded person, I like to think that I see every person as a unique soul underneath the superficial appearance of skin colour, race, sex, nationality, religion... Was I surprised when I did the Race Test (which Malcolm Gladwell describes in Blink and which also disturbed him when the results showed differently to what he consciously thought and felt). These tests show up your unconscious attitutes which may not correlate to your conscious attitudes. Disturbing eye openers!
Thursday, January 26, 2006
dune tunes
Ever heard of singing dunes? Fascinating info on dune tunes
excerpt - Dune tunes...the greatest hits
10:30 17 September 2005 NewScientist.com news service Zeeya Merali
IT MIGHT not knock Coldplay or Kanye West off the top of charts, but physicists who say they have cracked the riddle of "singing" sand dunes are compiling a CD of sand music. The team say their new theory allows them to predict the notes that different dunes will make.
Sand dunes in certain parts of the world are notorious for the noises they make as sand avalanches down their sides. Some emit low powerful booms, others sound like drum rolls or galloping horses, and some are even tuneful. These dune songs have been reported to last for up to 15 minutes and can sound as loud as a low-flying aeroplane. Physicists know it is the avalanches that set the grains humming, but the precise mechanism has remained controversial (New Scientist, 18 December 2004, p 8).
Stéphane Douady of the French national research agency CNRS and his colleagues shipped sand from Moroccan singing dunes back to his lab to investigate. They found that they could play notes by pushing the sand by hand, or with a metal handle. That put to rest one theory that the noise was the result of the entire dune resonating.
But after a month of singing, the sands seemed to lose their voice. "We examined the size and shape of grains under the microscope to try and work out what happened," says Douady. The singing grains were round with a smooth coating of silicon, iron and manganese, which probably formed on the sand when the dunes once lay beneath an ancient ocean. But in the muted grains this coat had been worn away, which explains why only some dunes can sing, says Douady.
He admits he is unsure exactly what role the coating plays in producing the noise. But the broader phenomenon seems to be clear. When the sand avalanches, the grains jostle each other at different frequencies, setting up standing waves in the cascading layer, says Douady. These waves reinforce one another, making the layer vibrate like the surface of a loud speaker. "What's funny is that in these massive dunes, only a thin layer of 2 or 3 centimetres is needed to set up the resonance," says Douady. "Soon all grains begin to vibrate in step."
Douady's key discovery was that this synchronised frequency - which creates the note - is the result of the grain size. He has successfully predicted the notes emitted by dunes in Morocco, Chile and the US simply by measuring the size of the grains they contain (www.arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0412047v1).
Back in the lab, Douady can manipulate these frequencies, by setting various quantities of the grains tumbling with a mechanical motor and changing their velocity. "We make different notes that are expressive and emotional," he says. Douady is now putting together a CD of his own dune tunes.
It's fantastic, really beautiful," says Hans Herrmann, a sand dune expert at Stuttgart University in Germany, who has listened to Douady's early attempts at sand music. But he says there are still questions to be answered, such as the role of the coating on the grains. "The riddle of the sand dunes has been with us for centuries and I'm sure there is still plenty more to learn.
listen to some dune tunes
http://www.me.caltech.edu/hunt/
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~douady/SongofDunesIndex.html
excerpt - Dune tunes...the greatest hits
10:30 17 September 2005 NewScientist.com news service Zeeya Merali
IT MIGHT not knock Coldplay or Kanye West off the top of charts, but physicists who say they have cracked the riddle of "singing" sand dunes are compiling a CD of sand music. The team say their new theory allows them to predict the notes that different dunes will make.
Sand dunes in certain parts of the world are notorious for the noises they make as sand avalanches down their sides. Some emit low powerful booms, others sound like drum rolls or galloping horses, and some are even tuneful. These dune songs have been reported to last for up to 15 minutes and can sound as loud as a low-flying aeroplane. Physicists know it is the avalanches that set the grains humming, but the precise mechanism has remained controversial (New Scientist, 18 December 2004, p 8).
Stéphane Douady of the French national research agency CNRS and his colleagues shipped sand from Moroccan singing dunes back to his lab to investigate. They found that they could play notes by pushing the sand by hand, or with a metal handle. That put to rest one theory that the noise was the result of the entire dune resonating.
But after a month of singing, the sands seemed to lose their voice. "We examined the size and shape of grains under the microscope to try and work out what happened," says Douady. The singing grains were round with a smooth coating of silicon, iron and manganese, which probably formed on the sand when the dunes once lay beneath an ancient ocean. But in the muted grains this coat had been worn away, which explains why only some dunes can sing, says Douady.
He admits he is unsure exactly what role the coating plays in producing the noise. But the broader phenomenon seems to be clear. When the sand avalanches, the grains jostle each other at different frequencies, setting up standing waves in the cascading layer, says Douady. These waves reinforce one another, making the layer vibrate like the surface of a loud speaker. "What's funny is that in these massive dunes, only a thin layer of 2 or 3 centimetres is needed to set up the resonance," says Douady. "Soon all grains begin to vibrate in step."
Douady's key discovery was that this synchronised frequency - which creates the note - is the result of the grain size. He has successfully predicted the notes emitted by dunes in Morocco, Chile and the US simply by measuring the size of the grains they contain (www.arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0412047v1).
Back in the lab, Douady can manipulate these frequencies, by setting various quantities of the grains tumbling with a mechanical motor and changing their velocity. "We make different notes that are expressive and emotional," he says. Douady is now putting together a CD of his own dune tunes.
It's fantastic, really beautiful," says Hans Herrmann, a sand dune expert at Stuttgart University in Germany, who has listened to Douady's early attempts at sand music. But he says there are still questions to be answered, such as the role of the coating on the grains. "The riddle of the sand dunes has been with us for centuries and I'm sure there is still plenty more to learn.
listen to some dune tunes
http://www.me.caltech.edu/hunt/
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~douady/SongofDunesIndex.html
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
invasion of the insects
Today was 30 degrees plus, hot & sunny, contrasting with most of last week when we needed the heater on. Spring is such a capricious season. I had my first bad bout of hayfever - had been immune this year so far, much to my surprise.
As I sit here just past midnight (11pm only if you base it upon the time before daylight savings came in a few days ago)I'm surrounded by a cloud of midges (tiny pesky insects) flying around and landing on me, desk, everything. My PC screen is coated with them. One got into my eye and hasn't surfaced yet. "How do they get in (to the house)?" is my perennial question. I ask the same question of the millipedes which swarm through the house after rains. Recently, they have been a resurgence of them, and sitting here in the office, I can hear the "plop plop plop" as they fall from the ceiling. Their usual style is to crawl across the floor, reach a vertical surface, then climb climb climb until they reach the ceiling, then across the ceiling, then plop onto the floor to begin the whole slow journey again. God forbid that one should leave any food or drink uncovered. And one might get a case of RSI bending over & picking up the stray ones wandering across the floor (with a tissue not bare hands eek). Months later, one finds them tucked away under boxes, in drawers, every conceivable nook. Oh and then there are those irritating buzzzy flies, large ponderous ones and the small hyperactive sticky ones. Next thing you know we're going to get another beetle plague like we have experienced twice already. At this time of year it's like living in a horror/comedy movie!
I guess I should remind myself that country life has its wonderful blessings too, but right this moment I can only see the other side of the coin!
As I sit here just past midnight (11pm only if you base it upon the time before daylight savings came in a few days ago)I'm surrounded by a cloud of midges (tiny pesky insects) flying around and landing on me, desk, everything. My PC screen is coated with them. One got into my eye and hasn't surfaced yet. "How do they get in (to the house)?" is my perennial question. I ask the same question of the millipedes which swarm through the house after rains. Recently, they have been a resurgence of them, and sitting here in the office, I can hear the "plop plop plop" as they fall from the ceiling. Their usual style is to crawl across the floor, reach a vertical surface, then climb climb climb until they reach the ceiling, then across the ceiling, then plop onto the floor to begin the whole slow journey again. God forbid that one should leave any food or drink uncovered. And one might get a case of RSI bending over & picking up the stray ones wandering across the floor (with a tissue not bare hands eek). Months later, one finds them tucked away under boxes, in drawers, every conceivable nook. Oh and then there are those irritating buzzzy flies, large ponderous ones and the small hyperactive sticky ones. Next thing you know we're going to get another beetle plague like we have experienced twice already. At this time of year it's like living in a horror/comedy movie!
I guess I should remind myself that country life has its wonderful blessings too, but right this moment I can only see the other side of the coin!
Saturday, July 02, 2005
sunny winter days
After the spate of wild, wet and grey days, we've had a run of beautiful sunny days. The house feels warm, the string of one Expo after another has stopped for awhile and we've got our life back.
I'm reading The Power of Appreciation, Infinite Love is the Only Truth Everything Else is Illusion, Cracking the Millionaire Code, and am listening to an amazing sci-fi audiobook called Snowcrash (I'm not a sci-fi fan, but this one's different).
I'm reading The Power of Appreciation, Infinite Love is the Only Truth Everything Else is Illusion, Cracking the Millionaire Code, and am listening to an amazing sci-fi audiobook called Snowcrash (I'm not a sci-fi fan, but this one's different).
Sunday, June 19, 2005
winter is definitely here
So cold! As I sit here in this office, I'm wearing thermal underwear plus another 2 layers on top and one extra layer at the bottom, and my fingers are cold. The thermometer says it's 17-18 degress C in here, even though both panel heaters are on. But I don't believe the thermometer - my body tells me it's about 15 degrees in here. It never gets quite warm enough in this office, in winter, unlike the main living areas where the wood fire is blazing valiantly to keep the status quo, against the cold winds blowing through every gap in the house. It's 9 degrees C outside, which isn't that cold, but the winds make it colder.
The lack of cuddly warmth is the price we pay for the walls of big glass windows everywhere. Great views but brrr! We have to relent and get some blinds, at least!
It's been pouring, pouring with rain for days. John next door had a vivid dream of rising waters, sliding mudbanks and waterfalls over roofs. I think there was 27cm of rain today!
The lack of cuddly warmth is the price we pay for the walls of big glass windows everywhere. Great views but brrr! We have to relent and get some blinds, at least!
It's been pouring, pouring with rain for days. John next door had a vivid dream of rising waters, sliding mudbanks and waterfalls over roofs. I think there was 27cm of rain today!
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
millipede invasion and country life
Phew! Truce I think between the millipedes and us. Since the rainy day, the millipedes have invaded. They crawl out of the ground, in our doors, across our floors, up our walls, then they hit the ceiling, climb across the ceiling and start falling plop! plop! plop! onto desks, benches, every surface. Luckily, they're tiny. Unluckily, they're many. I get a bit paranoid about leaving any bowls, pots or cups without covering them. Yum millipede soup.. or how about millipede juice! One finds these millipedes everywhere, once even in a salad bowl I had covered with a teatowel. Made me a bit wary about my food for awhile.
Vacuuming and sweeping becomes an activity for a few times a day. A common sight is me picking up millipedes with a bit of tissue, then rinsing my fingers with a shiver. Not good for a city girl living in the country.
But today the hordes are dwindling to nothing. No more crunch underfoot.
Last night there were these loud taps on the door as I worked on the PC til early hours. I bore it for a while and then went to look out through the glass doors. I saw a moth as big as my hand! As I was going upstairs to bed, they were knocking on the living room door, and as I brushed my teeth, they knocked on the bathroom window. Bang! Thud! Crash! Was it one moth following me, or a gang terrorising me? I'd never seen them this big before. No sign of them tonight, must have been just passing through last night.
And the mice! At least 2 every night in the mouse traps. How did they suddenly find their way in! I think we've finished them off - the traps are silent tonight.
Mice, Moths, Millipedes. Funny how they're Ms at the moment. Other times they've been flies, beetles, spiders, snakes, foxes and, once a little bat who found its way into the house for a couple of nights. When I first saw it before bedtime, I thought it was a large moth (no..didn't like the light), then a bird (no..too silent and not bumping into windows) then unsure. It flew so fast I couldn't fix my eyes on it to see what it was. I finally got it into the bathroom, and closed the door on it and got Kurt to go have a look. When he looked, he saw a cute little bat sitting on the window ledge, staring at him with little bright eyes. The next morning it was gone. The door had been closed, and none of the windows were open. John next door told us that bats just disappear and reappear mysteriously. Next night, before bedtime, swoosh- a dark little shape swooping downstairs then upstairs, amongst the high ceilings and through the doorways. Our bat friend was back. Kurt woke up, and we sat up in bed waiting for the bat to fly into the room. It did, and finally settled beside a wood beam on the ceiling. I slid open the balcony door, and flyscreen, and settled back into bed. A little squeak from the bat, as if in thanks, and silently it swooped through the narrow opening of the door and was gone into the night. Just as I was asking Kurt whether people kept bats as pets.
Vacuuming and sweeping becomes an activity for a few times a day. A common sight is me picking up millipedes with a bit of tissue, then rinsing my fingers with a shiver. Not good for a city girl living in the country.
But today the hordes are dwindling to nothing. No more crunch underfoot.
Last night there were these loud taps on the door as I worked on the PC til early hours. I bore it for a while and then went to look out through the glass doors. I saw a moth as big as my hand! As I was going upstairs to bed, they were knocking on the living room door, and as I brushed my teeth, they knocked on the bathroom window. Bang! Thud! Crash! Was it one moth following me, or a gang terrorising me? I'd never seen them this big before. No sign of them tonight, must have been just passing through last night.
And the mice! At least 2 every night in the mouse traps. How did they suddenly find their way in! I think we've finished them off - the traps are silent tonight.
Mice, Moths, Millipedes. Funny how they're Ms at the moment. Other times they've been flies, beetles, spiders, snakes, foxes and, once a little bat who found its way into the house for a couple of nights. When I first saw it before bedtime, I thought it was a large moth (no..didn't like the light), then a bird (no..too silent and not bumping into windows) then unsure. It flew so fast I couldn't fix my eyes on it to see what it was. I finally got it into the bathroom, and closed the door on it and got Kurt to go have a look. When he looked, he saw a cute little bat sitting on the window ledge, staring at him with little bright eyes. The next morning it was gone. The door had been closed, and none of the windows were open. John next door told us that bats just disappear and reappear mysteriously. Next night, before bedtime, swoosh- a dark little shape swooping downstairs then upstairs, amongst the high ceilings and through the doorways. Our bat friend was back. Kurt woke up, and we sat up in bed waiting for the bat to fly into the room. It did, and finally settled beside a wood beam on the ceiling. I slid open the balcony door, and flyscreen, and settled back into bed. A little squeak from the bat, as if in thanks, and silently it swooped through the narrow opening of the door and was gone into the night. Just as I was asking Kurt whether people kept bats as pets.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
sun's out
The series of lovely sunny days of autumn culminated in a steady downpour this morning. Stayed in bed an hour longer, luxuriating in the sound of falling rain. We lit the wood fire today. A little birdie must have stunned itself on the balcony door glass, and was sitting placidly on the balcony floor, looking at me like it was the most natural thing for me to be kneeling and talking to it.
Now I'm in the midst of doing 3 months of bookkeeping for the business, listening to classical Swoon music on my itunes. That's me, marketer, webmistress, bookkeeper, salesperson, director, dogsbody... I guess one would recognise the description of a small business owner. Kurt has been mopping the floor, packing orders - there's another small business owner - storeman, packer, salesman extraordinaire, accounts receivable, director, dogsbody too.
The sun has come out now, and it's back to work!
Now I'm in the midst of doing 3 months of bookkeeping for the business, listening to classical Swoon music on my itunes. That's me, marketer, webmistress, bookkeeper, salesperson, director, dogsbody... I guess one would recognise the description of a small business owner. Kurt has been mopping the floor, packing orders - there's another small business owner - storeman, packer, salesman extraordinaire, accounts receivable, director, dogsbody too.
The sun has come out now, and it's back to work!
Monday, April 11, 2005
bedtime at 5am
I've really done it this time, well past my night owl schedule. Went to bed close to 5am this morn, and woke up at 10.30am, and back to the PC. Strangely, I feel unusually wonderful today - a light sense of wellbeing. No sense of sleep deprivation. I must have had an epiphany in my sleep.
I fought with the dreadful virus and browser hijacker all hours of the night on the other PC and finally won. Great free program I found called "hijack this". It removes the stubborn stuff which the other anti adware programs don't find, and has saved my PC many times.
I fought with the dreadful virus and browser hijacker all hours of the night on the other PC and finally won. Great free program I found called "hijack this". It removes the stubborn stuff which the other anti adware programs don't find, and has saved my PC many times.
another late night- new birdchat blog
ok, another missed opportunity for an early night. It's 1.24 am local time.
Have been setting up the bird chat blog, so please visit! www.birdchat.blogspot.com
Have been setting up the bird chat blog, so please visit! www.birdchat.blogspot.com
Sunday, April 10, 2005
birds! a rave for another blog
I thought I'd add my bird thoughts here but I think my feathery beloveds need their own blog. There's Tutti the cockatiel, Pepi the budgie, and Kokola the Corella (Cockatoo), plus 4 geese (Fifi, Lulu, Mimi, Tutu) and last but not least Chojo the talkative budgie who passed away a few months ago, and is still sorely missed. So watch out for my birdyblog - stay posted!
great use of ipod for non-teens
another thought before bedtime.
I remember resisting the ipod craze, even when K was keen, thinking it was just for kids. But since we got 2, one for me & one for K, our 20G ipods have been busy!
what do I use them for?
well whenever I drive, I just play my audio books on the car FM radio, beamed from my ipod using the iTrip device. in hotel rooms I just use the supplied hifi set's FM radio to play my ipod stuff.
And all 60+(& increasing) of my audiobooks go everywhere with me in this tiny ipod. not to mention all my Meditation CDs, world music, classical music, radio shows and my contacts/calendar/notes/to-do list.
The ipod as organiser is another story - nifty software cost less that AUD20 & lets me use my ipod as an organiser to synch my outlook on pc. what a dream. it's called ipodsync -a gem! you can even sync rss feeds (don't bother with the competition pocketmac for ipod though, didn't do the job & lousy support.)
ah, the wonders of technology. and for once so easy to use, doing what it promises. anyway this time, goodnight.. really.
I remember resisting the ipod craze, even when K was keen, thinking it was just for kids. But since we got 2, one for me & one for K, our 20G ipods have been busy!
what do I use them for?
well whenever I drive, I just play my audio books on the car FM radio, beamed from my ipod using the iTrip device. in hotel rooms I just use the supplied hifi set's FM radio to play my ipod stuff.
And all 60+(& increasing) of my audiobooks go everywhere with me in this tiny ipod. not to mention all my Meditation CDs, world music, classical music, radio shows and my contacts/calendar/notes/to-do list.
The ipod as organiser is another story - nifty software cost less that AUD20 & lets me use my ipod as an organiser to synch my outlook on pc. what a dream. it's called ipodsync -a gem! you can even sync rss feeds (don't bother with the competition pocketmac for ipod though, didn't do the job & lousy support.)
ah, the wonders of technology. and for once so easy to use, doing what it promises. anyway this time, goodnight.. really.
spiritual movies?
another late night coming up, as we've just hit 12 midnight.
This time i really have to get to bed early, so just a quick note.
I'm quite excited to have just watched the Spiritual Cinema movies sent as the introductory package. I just knew when I saw the website that this hit the spot! Movies that uplift, inspire, provoke thought. What a refreshing idea to select them & present them in monthly collections on DVD. I signed up without a second thought.
Now I've told all my friends about it, and stuck it on our website at www.pinksalt.com and I guess that's it
This time i really have to get to bed early, so just a quick note.
I'm quite excited to have just watched the Spiritual Cinema movies sent as the introductory package. I just knew when I saw the website that this hit the spot! Movies that uplift, inspire, provoke thought. What a refreshing idea to select them & present them in monthly collections on DVD. I signed up without a second thought.
Now I've told all my friends about it, and stuck it on our website at www.pinksalt.com and I guess that's it
Saturday, April 09, 2005
incredible art
oh just one more thing before I go to bed (again, another famous last line by a night owl). I was just browsing through this amazing artist's website last night. It is quite surreal, beautiful, spiritual and strong. Hard to describe but try www.alexgrey.com and see what you think.
what a start
well what a start to the blog. As I completed setting it up, my mouse stopped working. I suspected the batteries, and went to the pantry to look for some. There, I dropped the basket containing the batteries and light bulbs, and broke a light bulb. oops. Clean up time. Now finally back to the PC, and the mouse is working again with the new batteries.
Welcome!
It's 1.29am local time, and I guess I really should go to bed (spoken like a true night owl). The other day, mum told me that even as a tiny tot, I would not be able to fall asleep at night, and eventually they learnt to let me stay up. what enlightened parents... in this respect anyway.
Good night...
Welcome!
It's 1.29am local time, and I guess I really should go to bed (spoken like a true night owl). The other day, mum told me that even as a tiny tot, I would not be able to fall asleep at night, and eventually they learnt to let me stay up. what enlightened parents... in this respect anyway.
Good night...
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