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23rd
June
2008
This movie has kinda crept up on us without a lot of buzz or hype - the new CGI Star Wars movie which will be released on August 14th in Australia (one day before America). I first saw the preview in the cinema just a couple of weeks ago but before that hadn’t heard anything about it. Apparently this will be the lead in to a new series on Cartoon Network.
Here’s the preview which I just found at Hello Internet. As Ben points out it’s a bit strange seeing Lucasfilm and Star Wars with a Warner Bros intro instead of 20th century fox
Tags : Movies, star wars, trailer, Video, youtube
Categories : Movies, Video |
21st
June
2008
Much has been made in recent years of people filling out their religion on census forms as ‘Jedi’
Well here’s what you’ve been waiting for - a documentary examining the inside workings of a Jedi church. They seem like Calvinist Jedis though, “I wish I could tell everyone they can be saved but they can’t. If you don’t have the midichlorians God doesn’t want you - it’s that simple.”
Worth a chuckle - I especially like the bit where Darth Maul goes forward for the altar call 
Tags : Humour, jedi, Religion, star wars, youtube
Categories : Humour, Video |
17th
June
2008
It’s been some time since I’ve posted any videos of Mia so here’s a quick clip of her from yesterday. Also enjoy the music, which Luke created (with a little help from me) using Apple GarageBand.
Tags : garageband, luke, Mia, Video, youtube
Categories : Mia, Video |
22nd
May
2008
I walked into the study this morning to find our two boys Owen and Luke sitting at the computer laughing their heads off. The video below, which they had discovered themselves on YouTube, was the reason. See what you think…
Tags : baby, Video, youtube
Categories : Humour, Video |
19th
May
2008
SO can you accurately locate Bolivia, Ivory Coast, and Turkmenistan on a world map?
If not then you have some catching up to do. Take a look at this video of a 2 year old geographical prodigy. I would bet that the vast majority of our high school students wouldn’t come close…
Tags : geography, kids, youtube
Categories : Video |
15th
May
2008
Came across a video similar to this one on cnn.com today and thought I’d go on The Google and see if I could find a YouTube version to post for y’all. This is not exactly the same but it’s essentially the same basic story - classic Bushims! Ain’t the internets a wonderful thing!
Tags : bush, Humour, youtube
Categories : Humour, Internet, Video |
1st
May
2008
Well I’m back to working slightly longer days this week after doing half days for the school holidays. For the second half of the holidays it didn’t seem all that slack though as I still had babies being born almost every day which meant early mornings and late nights and other hospital visits in between. This week has been a little quieter on the baby front although I’ve got my second one on the way today (no idea what time she will deliver though) and work here in the surgery is reasonably sedate. I do have a smallish pile of paperwork to get through but rather than doing that I’ve been putting my time to us catching up with some episodes of the Amazing vlog show on YouTube. This is an almost daily video blog produced by Mr Internet and his compadres. The episodes are well produced, funny at times, and interesting. At least I found them interesting but I know most of the guys who are doing it so maybe if you have no idea who they are you might not be so enthralled.
Anyway here’s the first episode - I’ll leave it up to you to check out the rest if you want…
Tags : blog, Obstetrics, vlog, Work, youtube
Categories : General Practice, Internet, Obstetrics, Video |
27th
April
2008
Here’s the latest video of our baby Mia - now nearly eight weeks old. My how she’s grown!
Tags : baby, Mia, Video, youtube
Categories : Mia, Video |
26th
April
2008
As I mentioned yesterday, I had to rebuild my PC this week, which included a clean install of Vista and all my other software. So here’s my list of some essential programs for Windows. Anyone have any other suggestions they would add to this list?
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Thunderbird (email)
- Office
- Google Picasa (photos)
- Exact Audio Copy (CD ripper) with LAME (MP3 encoder)
- Tag & Rename (MP3 tagger)
- iTunes & Quicktime
This next one is not essential, but I wanted to test out a game on the new PC and ended up downloading Trackmania Nations Forever. This has to be one of the best free games in history - basically it’s a racing game with a range of extreme tracks and online racing - all for free. I enjoyed the previous version of this game but it wouldn’t run on Vista so it’s nice to have an updated version that works. If you like racing games or just want something to help you waste a few minutes then definitely download this game. Here’s a YouTube trailer for it…
Tags : Software, trackmania, Video, vista, Windows, youtube
Categories : Games, Software, Windows |
16th
April
2008
Just upgraded my blog software to Wordpress 2.5. I think I’ve been stuck in 2.1 for quite some time now - for some reason I never bothered to update to the versions in between. Upgrading to 2.5 was pretty quick and painless, and certainly the interface seems much nicer with more powerful editing and management features. And most of my plugins seem to work quite well.
The remainder of this post will be a bit of a test post to try and make sure some things are still working… but read on nonetheless…
To test the YouTube embedding, here’s a video clip from Nickel Creek, one of my favourite bands at the moment, and part of my ongoing journey into bluegrass…
Here’s a quote from one of the books I’m currently reading :
Our life’s dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It’s not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply have to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear.
~ Paul Marshall Heaven is not my Home p62
And the new version has tags. I’ve never previously bothered to use tags on my blog, choosing to stick simply with categories. But since wordpress 2.5 supports it natively, and the rest of the web is going that way, I guess I’ll be tagging my blog posts from now on…
Tags : mandolin, nickel creek, Wordpress, youtube
Categories : Housekeeping, Quotes, Video, mandolin |
