iPhone 2.0 to launch on June 9th. Yeah, it’s just a rumour at this point, but like everybody is reporting it. I’m so excited! I haven’t had a new phone in four years, and mine was pretty crappy even by 2004 standards.
The Moment I Knew I Had a “Coffee Problem”: I was standing in the queue at Three Beans this morning, patiently waiting for my large takeaway skim latte, when ALL THE LIGHTS WENT OUT. And all I could think about was whether he’d managed to make MY coffee before the blackout, because if he didn’t, I was going to have to steal somebody else’s.
Ebert has a new blog post about how much he loved the new Indy and how much AICN sucked for running a negative review before the official premiere.
This was a special surprise birthday gift for my nephew Kurt, who is a big fan of Tintin. I used the pattern for “Jumper with Raglan Sleeves” from Panda Handknits #204 (“11 Handknits for Kids”). I noticed that in many of the illustrations of Tintin he’s wearing a sky blue jumper, so that decided me on the colour. Ma Snook provided me with a picture of Tintin and Snowy, which I transferred to knitter’s graph paper in Photoshop. The main areas of colour were knit in intarsia, but the smaller details (Snowy’s tongue and nose, and the black outlines on their faces) were embroidered on after the fact. I also decided to put “TINTIN” in block letters down one of the sleeves, just to keep it interesting. It was a fairly quick knit, and the only annoyance was weaving in all the ends and sewing it together. (I normally like to knit in the round, but the intarsia in this case prevented that.) I knitted it out of Filatura di Crosa Zara, and I probably used 9 balls of the blue and 1 of the white. (I used scraps of random 8ply for the other colours.) I used 4mm needles and finished it in just over a month. He and his parents are coming over Friday for dinner… I hope he likes it! (Ravelry details.)
Hey Mom, you should do this Korean-American survey. You could win a trip to Seoul! (Link courtesy of Ask a Korean.)
The official race photos are up, and there are FOURTEEN of me. My personal favorites are this one and this awesome one with the Harbour Bridge in the background. And I have a happy smile in this one. Some of the others look… not so good. Also, I think these photos conclusively prove that I do NOT give the thumbs-up whenever my photo is taken; instead, I actually run with them sticking out at all times. I did not know that.
Joomla Day: Today my workmates and I headed to Darling Harbour for Joomla Day. (Joomla is a content management system for websites, and we’re using it on a project right now.) Unfortunately I didn’t get a lot out of it. The audience seemed to be pretty varied, from folks who’d never used it before to small business owners to power coders like us. In retrospect, there really wasn’t any way they could cater for all levels. For instance, we’d been really looking forward to the “Security and Performance” talk, but it turned out to be given by a non-coder whose only real advice was “keep everything updated.” Gee, thanks. (He also threw in a ten minute advertisement for the hosting company he runs, which was a bit weird.) And there were way too many audience questions about “SEO” and “link exchange” for my liking. (*shudder*) The only bit of the day that was really relevant or interesting for me were the two talks by Andrew Eddie, one of the Core developers, but even then he didn’t really cover anything I’d hadn’t figured out on my own. At one point in the afternoon, this teenage kid (who’d talked about his experience with GHOP) actually pulled out a guitar and warbled a song about how much he loved his Macbook. It was amusing and all, but really – is this what we paid $90 for? I feel like the business and marketing types probably got more out of it than the developers did. Oh well. It was a nice to not be in the office while I’m still so tired and sore… and I got a T-shirt out of it.
Here are some details about yesterday’s half-marathon winners. The chick who won had been nursing an Achilles tendon problem all week!
Official Results: I just ran out to get the morning paper and check the results. I finished in 156:59, which is just shy of two hours and 37 minutes. (As Allan mentioned in the comments below, that means I averaged a twelve minute per mile pace for the whole thing.) I placed 5979th out of 6032 finishers… which means I was in the bottom 1%. But you know what? This race was marketed as Australia’s “most prestigious restricted entry running event,” and I was in the company of serious runners. I’m just happy to have been out there with them.
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