USA, PS3, USB HDD and other TLA

I have been in Oregon for the week playing with Onion machines, Its nice and hot down here being summer. Anyhow Oregon is a Tax Free state in the USA and therefor I have been shopping with all my free time.

I got me...

A PS3
9 PS3 Games
1 Wii Game
2 PS2 Games
1 160GB Laptop Hard Disk Drive
1 Keybord, 1 Mouse some PC speakers
Spare controllers for my PS3
A mobile phone with a US phone number

So the last couple of days have been consumed by playing PS3 and installing Linux on my new toy.

Can't wait till i get back home to the housemates HDTV.

Other then that I have been eating far to much junk food, eating more new types of junk food ( Wendys (not the ice cream place ) ,Taco Time and A&W ), I have been drinking Grolshe since I don't really like coors.

Also recently got back into the whitlams

and thats my life so far.

USA - First Day and Second

Landed in the USA yesterday had to sit around at LAX for 6 hours while we waited for our plane to Seattle. After arriving at Seattle we went to sleep in a small motel ( with 4 rooms ) a small town between Seattle and Yakima, I had beef jerky and popcorn for tea, I'm eating well.

Anyhow I turned on the TV in the morning and found a great show that hasn't yet made it to Australia ( as far as I know ). His name is Hip Hop Harry and he has stolen my heart.



This one was on the episode I watched.

Going the USA

Tuesday this week I will be flying off to Washington State, USA to commission two machines.

I have a bit of a shopping adventure planned in the nearby state Oregon that apparently has no sales tax. I plan to get a PS3 ( To chuck Linux on ) and a couple of Wii games,

A friend also wants me to get him an iPhone.

I will be over in the states for at least 2 weeks but could be there for longer depending.

I don't think that I will have any trouble getting on the net ( unlike in Australia ) so I might upload photos to flickr and blog as I go...

Facebook and Yahoo Pipes

Was surfing the internet yesterday when I came across a very, very cool thing. I'm certain that many have come across it before, but it was new to me.

I found Yahoo Pipes a nice way of manipulating RSS feeds and other such stuff to make other RSS feeds.

I decided to combine my whole sindicatable life into one large RSS feed and then decided to open a face book account and add the whole massive feed of my life ( Including blogs from blogspot, myspace and livejornal as well as del.icio.us links and flicker photos ) onto a face book account that I created for the occasion.

Wouldn't mind adding LastFM songs and google cal stuff to there as well :P... but hey.

My web2 life at last isn't extended over the whole internet.... I feel.. whole :P

Colour Vision Systems work stuff

Since I have left IBM I have been having fun traveling all over Australia servicing fruit sorting equipment.

They have also been using me to redesign the website and create a database of machines using PHP and mysql.

Me and richard have been uploading a lot of videos to youtube of our machines ( primarily for the new website) but for any of you guys that don't know what a fruit sorting machine looks like ( I would say most of you ) here are some movies.

I service the electronics on the machine, so the software on the PC (front end), the embedded stuff also the output ( CIO that fire solenoids to drop the fruit ) and or baggers or box fillers that receive output from the sizer ( mostly the output from the sizer, we see the PLC as a bit of a black box... just installed the PLC programming software tho.. should be fun to look at )

So long Adam

RIP Adam 23-6-1986 - 03-6-2007

Thanks for all the good times, the debates and being a great friend to all.

At the airport

I have been in Bowen all week for work and am finally making it home.

Currently sitting at the airport waiting for my connecting flight from brissy to Melbourne to arrive.

Taking the time to check my emails and update my blog using the Virgin blues 'lounges' wireless.

Thought I might attempt to add some information about what I got upto while in bowen.

Me and Richard explored the beach out the front of our hotel

About 3 minutes from the hotel we found a rock pointing out the existence of a nude beach. At the time no one was on this stretch of beach, but apparently on the weekend quite a few fat old men enjoyed this beach ( according to a couple of blokes I fished with from Townsville ).

Anyhow Bowen is a damn awesome place.

I'm going to go back to the Whitsundays sometime when I have some holidays.