“It doesn’t matter where Chuck Norris sits, Chuck Norris is always at the head of the table.”

- Matthew Sweet

I must admit, I’m really suprised by this, I was expecting Telstra to pick up the iPhone, I guess negotions didn’t go Telstra’s way…

It’s a shame really, Telstra has by far and away the best 3G coverage of any provider, so it remains to be seen if Telstra will add it’s own link to the Apple store:

http://www.apple.com/au/iphone/buy/

I love the fact that things grow, I don’t sit around being resentful that the tree outside my window is growing do I?

I’m growing too, just differently to the tree. I don’t get hurt and resentful because I’m not growing as fast as the sapling outside - it just grows differently to me.

When something is growing and baring fruit in the form of local and international mission, fostering the growth of individuals in the workplace, then at best give it praise, at worst leave it alone.

The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well in Australia.

As Christians, shouldn’t we know better?

Or is the syncretistic appropriation of secular values ok?

A few days ago I was having some work done at my local garage. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten.

We all looked at each other and another customer asked, ‘What is a seven-hundred-ten?’ She replied, ‘You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one..’

She replied that she did not know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there. The mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like.

She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car which had its hood up and asked ‘is there a 710 on this car?’ She pointed and said, ‘Of course, its right there.’

If you’re not sure what a 710 is Click Here

1. Finally moved from my www.mediatemple.net account to my own www.servint.net vps server
2. Installed Wordpress 2.3.3 with fantastico!
3. Installed the latest following plugins:
   1. Adsense Delux - 0.8
   2. AVC FLV-Player - 2.5.5
   3. Akismet - 2.1.4
   4. All-In-One-SEO-Pack - 1.4.6.3
   5. Google Analyticator - 2.1
   6. Google Sitemaps - 3.0.3
   7. reCAPTCHA - 2.6
   8. ShiftThis | Newsletter  - 2.2.6
   9. Twitter Widget - 1.5
   10. wp-cache - 2.1.2
4. Installed TwitterBerry on my blackberry
5. Botched up my permalinks
6. Decided to keep them the way they are now (not sure how this will effect my google ranking and the ol’ google cache)
7. Installed the excellent Silhouette by wordpress themer legend Brian Gardner (Designed the awesome Revolution theme set)

A few things to do:

1. Make a few adjustments to Silhouette in the columns for my own specific widgets
2. Find a suitable ajax search widget / plugin that works with silhouette

It’s been well worth the reset! I have been meaning to move fg.com for ages now since I got my own vps server.

But this is the result of a roll of 161 stamps and a miss-spent afternoon in the (relatively) remote NSW town of Coonamundra.

Live writer is a XML-RPC client that allows you to post blog entries from your windows desktop.

It means that any metaweblog api compliant blogging platform can be posted to using Live Writer.

It’s awesome, just for quickly tapping out entries it’s great.

You can also easily add images:

Inserting a map of where I live:

I made it with iMovie on my new Mac Book Pro and my Canon TX1.