I was awoken this morning grasping for pencil and paper to write down a dream I had. Funny thing is, it was 2 UI ideas for a new app we are working on. One of the ideas was growl notification for a particular feature and a dialogue with 3 options on it. These will likely be implemented too

Anyone else dream up software features in their sleep?

Oh yeah.. speaking of growl… What if you had growl for ‘real life’?

I was at WWDC! .... and still in Australia.

Keith too. Thumbs up from him.

Thanks Matthew Tonkin for hooking us up

Matt held up his Macbook Pro so we could see around.

We waved to people standing in line, and a couple people waved back!... ahhhh, technology!

#2 – Have a getaway work place in short waking distance such as a café, library or park.

Previous to my recent move, I was in a Suburban wasteland, with no alternative places to sit and work. Being stuck at home with little outside contact, sometimes for days, made it very easy to get into mental ruts.

Walking to and working from another location gives you perspective to think more constructively. Not to mention the vicarious emotions you get from sitting in a bustling café

Previous hints:
#1

A new medical paper was released recently:

PLASQ: probe-level allele-specific quantitation

From: http://www.bepress.com/harvardbiostat/paper44/

as Adrian (plasqer in Switzerland) put it, “we finally have a catchy slogan!”

From a brief untrained reading, it seems to be a classification method of cells to aid tracking of mutations which lead to cancer. Or I could be completely wrong.

Heading to sydney for a couple of nights Tomorrow. Friday, 2pm, I’ll be giving a talk about plasq, and how we collaborate globally to create software.

Feature Presentation – Developing on the Mac

Wish me luck

I love cooking, learning about and eating food. I was very happy to discover the new house has a lovely lemon tree and a plant known as Monstera deliciosa. It’s a lovely looking plant that also yields quite an amazing fruit. Wasn’t sure if it was edible at first, as it is quite a strange looking fruit, like a cross between Custard apple, Pineapple and a Mexican cactus. (incidentally, this plant is originally from Mexico). It tastes as such too – minus the cactus bit… never tried that

Check out the entry on Wikipedia.

Discovered a great little grocery store on Brunswick St, about 6 mins walk from my place. Couldn’t see the name of it – from a quick google, maybe ‘The Vegetable Connection’? I’ll try to find out. Edit: Yep, it’s ‘The Vegetable Connection’.

Anyway, their selection is amazing – I’m in heaven. Great selection of raw, organic, crap free foods. w00t.

Here is a recent selection of stuff:

Note the Philipa’s Herbed Spiced Nuts. Mathieu put me onto these at a plasq BBQ earlier this year. Damn addictive. Don’t get them!!

Wow, Flock makes blogging flickr images SO easy. Awesome. Moving on…

Here are photos of dinners I’ve made recently, just for fun.

That last one is a breakfast – eggs, truss tomato, zucchini, avocado, eggplant (with stacks of Olive Oil), vegetarian sausages and fake bacon. I’ve been a Pesco/pollo vegetarian for 3-5 months now (Haven’t really kept count ). It hasn’t been hard as I’ve never been a big meat eater, but early on, had a few dreams about accidentally eating meat. Diet is mostly Vegetarian food, but a few times a week, I have fish.

plasq wise, we are working on a new app. I’m very excited about this one. We have actually had a rough version that we have all been using for the last year or so. Without going into what it is, it is incredibly helpful with our international collaboration

Shot of my new HQ. Loving the walls and downlighting. Yepp, that is my art.. gotta do some more.

P.S, posted this with Flock.. Nice browser… seemed to have issues posting though.. said it didn’t post, but did. Oh well, had to delete some dupes But check it out! Chris Messina and crew are doing some very cool things. Great UI work.
EDIT: Seems I totally missed that Chris left Flock way before I posted this – he is still consulting though. So great work Flock team.

w00t! Yesterday, Girlfriend and I moved to an awesome new house in Carlton. We were rather sick of living in Pascoe Vale. Working from home, you need stuff to do within walking distance. Pascoe Vale is nice and all, but a deadland for cafés to sit and work at for a change of view.

Being within walking distance of Melbourne City, Brunswick street, and Lygon street is gonna rock. Now I just need to get the internet connected there. Might be working out of Joe’s garage for a few days

Saw this URL on the back window of a car yesterday and thought I would look it up. well its for a heavy rock band but you gotta check out the singers hair! wow!

My girlfriend has her own domain now! jemgirl.com. Just a logotype there at the moment but it will be updated soon with lots of content relating to the 80’s cartoon, Jem and the Holograms(remember that?) as well as her own music projects, other dolls, stories, photos and stuff about clothes that she makes.

Trash80 will be releasing a new EP in 5 days or so and launching his new site! Both are awesome! Jemgirl and I wrote lyrics for 2 of the songs; Jemgirl the vocals for those with me doing a tiny backing vocal on one. The EP will be entitled, Hologram. An apt tie in there with jemgirl, but really, its a great name indicative of the 80’s

We bought a BBQ thingie yesterday… its like a metal basket on a stand and a metal plate that sits on top. Here’s a pic:

The cooking plate is leaning against the basket. The silver wire handle, i added so the plate can be lifted on and off more easily.
update: duh, this isn’t a bbq, but an out doors heater. burn coals and wood I reckon

Built a new PC last week. Athlon 2700+ with a gig of ram. It was kinda a major overhaul of my previous PC, i suppose, i kept the same drives (hard/floppy/CDRW/DVD-Rom) but the rest is new. the new case rocks. see here:

Damn fast too. Loving it! I was surprised in the difference in speed with 1 gig compared to 512 meg of ram too. Photoshop is like butter now and logic is quicker too, especially when loading big sound banks. Can finally work on music without feeling constrained all the time like I was on my previous 700mhz PC and my Titanium powerbook 500mhz which are roughly the same speed.

Super greg! Love this guy.. comical genius. I first saw it about 2 years ago but it had been around long before that. Google for some other stuff if ya interested. its worth it.

Zebra 1.0 (final) is released! The response to it has been great. Very happy.

oh yeah, and I want to buy some thongs… yeah… thongs are cool. thongs and pants; the ultimate in fashion.
(this line would be quite weird for non australians… thongs and pants seem to have a different meaning here