http://www.sunnybreaks.org Wed, 14 May 2008 05:14:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had to get rid of the cutline theme, it looked too much like a magazine or something and besides - the creator is a gimp. There are a few drawbacks of this one too, but looking at the templates, it's very simple and therefore easy to modify. * * ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/05/14/1314/ Maybe it's my conspiracy-fueled mind at work, maybe I'm reading between the lines too much, but when I saw this article, block-quoted here ad infinitum, I began to wonder... could that smart-but-casually dressed Zeta Reticulan standing behind the Federal Tresurer have anything to do with it? The Federal Government will use ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/05/11/mind-control-and-colonisation-again/ all the memories of everything that I wanted to mention about the recent trip to Shanghai and surrounds is blending in to nothing, so I better try and write it now, with fotos. First the food. I really like food from the different parts of China. I feel like I'm over ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/05/05/like-tears-in-soup/ I felt like being daring and upgrading the wordpress installation to the latest version. _(just press the button it's not rocket science!)_ Sunny Breaks had been using the very old 2.01, a technological laggard more's the pity, but the last attempt at a big upgrade resulted in flipping out the ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/05/04/the-whole-enchilada/ I have a week's intermission at work and so have come back to Shanghai. I didn't bring the appropriate cable so any fotos will have to be inserted post-trip. Girlfriend, Je, has made friends with some of the locals and so we have been meeting with them. An 'Aunt' invited us ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/04/22/west-toast-snow-fish-platoon/ It's worthwhile noting that while some people may well be afraid of Roumanians, for some reason we just can't seem to let them go. Blackula, Count Chocula breakfast cereal and Sesame Street's The Count. (ref The Count & cookie monster.) One thing I always wondered about Cookie Monster was, Where do the ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/04/15/co-operation/ http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/04/14/abusecreditcausehe-llcrankphone/ I _was_ going to write about how being back studying and dealing with the academia was reminding me of how out of touch with reality they all are. What set that off was finishing up reading _Dracula_ and _Carrie_ and then reading some of the analysis pieces as well as ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/04/08/ivory/ The rather sinister 'Mystery Man' from Lynch's movie Lost Highway. The rather sinister Samsung Chairman, Lee Kun Hee. The same man??? http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/04/06/weve-met-before-havent-we/ I went out and bought a mac book pro. In the last six months I've given away three laptops. But the philanthropic feeling wore off pretty quick and left me with the condition of mobilelessness. The hardware itself is okay I guess. I remember back to when they changed from ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/04/05/got-a-new-bike-review-of-the-24ghz-mac-book-pro/ I'm studying again this semester, just one subject; English Literature. It's looking at popular fiction and the first assignment in on horror fiction. After reading Bram Stoker's _Dracula_ ten years ago, I reread it last week. There seemed to be a lot I didn't remember. Like all the sex scenes, ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/03/28/f-u-n-e-x/ I've never been one for business & economics but I must say it's a little odd to look at the calculators and see that 1000 South Korean Won is presently worth the same as 1 Australian dollar. for once I don't have to do mathematics in my head which leaves ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/03/16/parroty/ As happens, I have not set aside the time to write regularly, and now I am starting to forget all the other stuff that happened - when I went to shanghai, nearly two weeks ago. All up, the taxi drivers are not good. The photos from the whole thing are up ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/03/12/2-the-rest-of-it/ First thing was leaving the airport, which can be done in several ways. The best one is taking the new maglev train. If you check out that site and look at the little flash animation on the right, titled 'virtual travel', that's exactly what it's like, including jerking music. I could ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/03/06/1-maglove-the-maglev/ Hi. Last week for the week I was in Shanghai. I have been meaning to start putting things down about it, but there's so much. Expect it to come out in fragments. Here is a couple. The plane ride over was delayed and late in several ways. From now on, ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/03/04/putting-the-pieces-together/ I'm very much missing warm air, wet sand and salt water. Winter has been long. It is almost over, or so it would seem. It has this way of giving you a week's worth of hope then plunging back. It the weather report! Go check out http://squarepusher.net/ playing his bass like ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/02/18/updaish/ Hi. I was just reading this thing about blowing on laptops and it reminded me of a minivison I had on the bus on friday while in theta-cycles. Moving songs around on iTunes will be like pouring water from one cup to another. Tonight I watched _Juno_ (2007). At first I ... http://www.sunnybreaks.org/2008/02/10/nannatechnology/