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23rd
November
2007
One of the news stories that has been sadly neglected in the midst of our current Australian election campaign is the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which is taking place in Kampala, Uganda, at the moment. I was hoping to see reports of our Prime Minister attending and some news coverage of Kampala, but sadly John Howard has more pressing issues on his mind. At present the Queen, Gordon Brown, Canadian PM Stephen Harper and a host of other world leaders are descending on Kampala. To date I’ve seen one story in the Australian media, who are understandably pre-occupied with our own election tomorrow. Might have to check out BBC news later to see if they have any stories. Anyway, here’s a view of Kampala that the Queen and other CHOGM delegates will most likely never see – the view from the back of a boda-boda motorcycle taxi. These are the quickest and easiest way of getting around Kampala and weaving through the often chaotic traffic. Although on this video, filmed by Watoto team member and lab guru Dennis and myself, the traffic is pretty mild. You will get to see some of Kampala’s nicest streets in the CBD, cleaned up “getting ready for CHOGM”
This is my first video edited on my MacBook Pro in iMovie (is it just me, or does Apple seem to have copyright on the letter i ?) Took me a little while to get the hang of it, but I’m pleased to say there was not a single crash or even a significant delay in the whole process, which is a huge contrast to my efforts with Windows Movie Maker a couple of weeks ago on my Vista PC. I’ll be playing around with the video capabilities of my Mac more over the next week or so as I upload more of my Uganda videos.
Categories : Africa, Apple, Uganda, Video |
23rd
November
2007
Gavin makes an interesting post on the nature of musical tastes – why we like what we do and why it might change over time. Worth thinking about so go over and check out what he has to say and make your own comments…
Categories : Blogs, music |
23rd
November
2007
I’ve never been much of a trekkie – missed the last few movies and never watched any of the TV series after the one with Pickard. But the upcoming movie produced by J J Abrams does sound like it might be worth watching. And a particularly interesting thing about this movie is that they have the actor who plays Heroes’ Sylar (the coolest, and scariest, TV villain in years) to play a young Spock. Judging from these grainy pictures he’s a pretty good choice for the role.
Speaking of Heroes, Jen and I have finished re-watching season 1 on HDDVD and are now working our way through season 2. It took a little while to get into it while they were introducing all these new characters but eight episodes in and it’s looking as good as ever. I especially enjoyed the ‘Hiro in Japan’ storyline. My big frustration now is that we only have one episode left to watch and we will be up to date! After a few weeks of watching Heroes several nights a week, having to endure the pain of waiting for one episode every week will be agony, especially if the screenwriter’s strike results in a big mid-season gap.
Categories : Movies, Television |
23rd
November
2007
One day to go before the election, and here’s a cool you tube clip I found. Admittedly it’s a bit biased, casting the Howard government in the role of the Empire defending against Rudd and his band of rebels, but I still found it pretty funny, and well done. Don’t know if it was intended or not, but the father vs son parallels here are interesting. Apparently if you get tired of (or depressed by…) the election coverage Channel 10 is just showing Star Wars so it’s something to keep in mind…
In other election related news, I just read The Australian’s final editorial, which ultimately in a close decision between two “worthy opponents” advocates a vote for Mr Rudd. This is surprising from The Australian, which usually sticks to a relatively conservative line in contrast to leftist media like the Melbourne Age. What is even more surprising is that they advocate a change to Rudd without any compelling reason why. The discuss the many similarities and minor differences between the parties, highlight the key difference on IR and mention some of the potential economic dangers in Labor’s IR policies, yet choose to put their trust in him nonetheless in what is almost a leap of blind faith. Seems like the editors at The Australian have fallen under the spell (or force) of Labor’s messiah, Kevin Rudd. Seems like he’s pulling off some kind of immense Jedi mind trick on the whole country…
These aren’t the droids you’re looking for…
EDIT : ok a little more browsing YouTube and it’s full of these kind of things. Here’s another one – Kevin 007 – The man with the golden jaw. I also found a Kevin Almighty clip, but the execution is not a clever as the idea. Anyway, enjoy Kevin 007…
Categories : Australia, Politics, Video |
