Night at PJ's and DM Award

The award ceremony was mild but the before and after was not. I ran into Sil while rushing to the presentation.

Afterwards I had a beer with Adrian and Grant , plus a lot more in PJ's. On top of that I encountered a possum.

I am still alive but sick

Ok did not go to work today. Stayed home sick. So I finally have time to write stuff in my blog.
A lot of small things have happened in the past few weeks. Including me buying a car, setting up a server rack. Going to a few salsa parties and movies. Regularly working on WorldWind now. Probably will get more done if I had a Windows laptop or a laptop beefy enough to run windows on qemu or vmware.

Oh forgot to mention I am receiving the award for the best Integrated Circuit Design in my year due to fortutious circumstaces. The fact that Grant was on our team and that he could not sleep so he made a 136-lambda gate.Hopefully will meet up with some of the guys there.

Prawn Curry

I made pretty good Panang Curry with prawns tonight. Hmmm, can't imagine I can actually cook.

Weekend and Quiz Night

Finally had a big weekend out. Watched movies, read books, bummed around and had a fun quiz night. Not much work got done but I learnt a few new card games. I am now getting back to working on the WW-JOGL Terrain Accessor and marvelling at the heavily waternarked high res Globe Explorer Data.
Here is a photo of the winning BackPack Oz Quiz Night Team with the prizes of course.
I am rather proud of myself too since i managed to drive from office to home unscathed, learning to drive is fun.

WW2D and WW2DPlusOne

Hey hey Pat Murris has done it again. He has beaten NASA to a working JOGL-WorldWind. I got it running with jdk1.5.0 on Gentoo and jdk1.4.2 on Suse. After a bit of rebuilding.Vitaliy also seems to have a jar file and class loader based plugin structure figured out - working around the PluginBase class.
Enjoy a hot cup of Java. Hope this codebase is useful and does not muddy the waters of the current java version in the works at NASA.

Worldwind Donation and Driving Lesson

Hmm done a few good things lately.
1. Put the idea of Jabber based whiteboarding tool for QGIS in timlinux's head.
2. Donated $325 toward Nowak's Opteron 165(He is still whining about having to pay $30 for postage).
3. Learnt to drive and did not hit anything for nearly an hour.Very little on road driving though.Hopefully my steering and car control will get better with time.
Anyway just to stay consistent I have decided that this page will have links to the cool artwork from Inverloch and Earthsong. Great work girls.

Oakbanks

I finally made it to the world's biggest carnival race. Lots of people and it's busy as anything.Nice views. Pity I lasted only the first few races after a bottle and some more of Chardonnay.