Australian vs U.S. car prices

The conventional wisdom is that cars are way cheaper in the U.S. And that may be true – for U.S. cars, like Ford or whatnot. Mustangs are dirt cheap here (they’re also dirt quality, though). But European cars are very expensive. Maybe more-so than in Australia, even. And the car I’m currently eyeing, the hybrid… Read more

“Rocker”

I took some photos of some rock piles stacked up by a guy in Sausalito, and coincidentally he saw them on Flickr and commented. So if you’re curious about stacking of rocks, bottles and whatnot, you can check out his work. 🙂

Die Hard 4

I went to see Die Hard 4 tonight (well, last night now… damn extended length). It was surprisingly good. Standard action flick, typical character stereotypes, and much in the vein of the previous ones. But it didn’t come across like it was trying to be anything other than a good laugh and some over-the-top but… Read more

Sausalito ride

Late last week people (mainly interns) started organising themselves for the weekend, and one of the ideas that came up and caught my attention was a proposed bike ride over the Golden Gate Bridge and up to Muir Woods, which is apparently quite spectacular. So, at 11am on Saturday, which was way too early for… Read more

More photos

I’ve put up the photos from the ride to Sausalito and the Monterey Bay Aquarium from a few weeks back. Knock yourself out.

YouTube quality provides no surprises

I uploaded a couple of videos I took at the Monterey Bay Aquarium to YouTube, figuring it’d be nice not to have to throw them on my .Mac site (i.e. here) and used up precious storage space. Sadly, the quality of the recoded YouTube versions left rather a lot to be desired. So I canned… Read more

Nearly there with New Zealand photos

Went through more of my New Zealand photos – now only 480 to go. Also, I seem to have picked up some annoying throat infection as of yesterdayish… my tonsils don’t look too bad, though, so [hopefully] it’s just some passing thing.