By Soul Solutions on Tuesday, 29 May 2007

I was surfing on graysonline yesterday and came across an auction for boxes of 250 stress builing block (like lego).  I saw these at Tech Ed last year and they are pretty cool as you can build stuff out of them, but i only had two.  Couldn't help myself so i bid on a box of blue and a box of yellow.  So now I am going to be the proud owner of these guys...

Now to decide what to build with 500 squishy toys...

By Soul Solutions on Saturday, 26 May 2007

While working on my migration to Version 5 of Virtual Earth I side track to look at the new method to customise the info box (pin popup) and find 2 showstopping issues.

View the article here.

By Soul Solutions on Saturday, 26 May 2007

I got access to the alpha of popfly today and have been dragging and dropping mashups together all morning. This is simply hooking up the rss feed from Bronwens best of thailiand photos to a photo sphere control Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 24 May 2007

Well it seems that 4 is the number of 2007.  For those who've seen my IM tags for the last few months.  We ordered a new bed from Forty Winks 4 months ago!  Today, after having 3 broken beds delivered, our 4th bed arrived intact ... yay.  So after 4 months it seems it's a case of 4th time lucky.

Interesting facts about the ordeal...each bed was broken in a different way.  If we'd kept the non-broken parts of each of the 3 broken beds, we'd have had a full, unbroken bed 2-3 months ago.

Good thing it has a 2 year warranty..means we may very well go through 24 beds in 24 months.

By Soul Solutions on Wednesday, 16 May 2007

Always hate trying to park in town and today remembered why.  Had a meeting at 10:30 in town today...thought getting there at 10:10 would give me heaps of time to find a park...

I drive round a few streets and finally spot one on a hill between 2 cars..so i pull over and put on my indicator, put the car into reverse and just about to start my fun reverse park...when a car comes ripping in and puts his nose in my spot.  I was not happy...thoughts of running my towbar in his side crossed my mind.

So drove round some more and found anther spot..also between 2 cars..but as it was close to set up lights I'm behind another car and before i can start to reverse someone just pulls up behind me...so i just give up and try to go to a parking station..where there are cars parted across the in ramp..so quickly dart in the out ramp and across...all the w ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Tuesday, 15 May 2007

My contract with Faces expired the day before we went on holidays..and I went away with them discussing my contract renewal terms.  Yesterday..still no written confirmation on renewal so I asked for confirmation before doing any work.

This worked out well so i could go through all our holiday picks...

Today I'm told they have decided not to renew my contract...they can't afford me .  So the next few days I'll help John out with a few things, and then it might be time to look for a new job...and I was liking working from home too...

 

By Soul Solutions on Monday, 14 May 2007

After a lot of culling etc we've finished playing with our pics we're uploading our pics.

If you want the short version the best of is here:

http://bronwenz.smugmug.com/gallery/2845629#152503668

and the rest can be found here:

http://bronwenz.smugmug.com/Vacation/298124

By Soul Solutions on Saturday, 12 May 2007

So we skipped the tigers, and watched 2 more movies...Next - Nicolas Cage which wasn't bad and Shooter - Marky Mark which filled in time.  So now we're at the airport..and waiting for our flight like 4 hrs away..and then home.  Been a great trip.

By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 10 May 2007

So we fly into Bangkok again today..only a few days before our journey home.  We're over temples and after something to do...so we go for a journey to the cinema to see Spiderman 3.  The movie is crap by the way...so mushy and BORING!!!

The interesting bit was getting our tickets..they have 3 classes of tickets, and when you buy you pick your allocated seat.  So there's opera..which are big cushy pairs right at the back of the cinema which are about $15 each.  Then there's "honeymoon" which recline with the lifting arms (like at AMC at Sunnybank) which is the back 1/2 of the cinema..these are about $5 each and then there's standard..which is the stiff normal seats like you'd find at BCC at Carindale..these are the ... Read More »

By Soul Solutions on Thursday, 10 May 2007

So we slept in today..so there really wasn't much point in hiring a car.  Instead we used the vouchers i'd snigged at the airport with free transportation to the monkey place.  So we get the hotel to call for us and are booked for the 1pm pickup...yay...time for some breakfast/lunch before we go.

The place we're going to has the monkey training school, bungey jumping, and  buggies.  We're met in our transport by other small groups that are going buggying or bungying.  By the time we get there we're considering the buggy rides but i've got a nasty sore on my leg that i'm trying to air so it scabs..and I really don't want to get dirt in it or rub it against the supplied overalls...so i'm not keen.

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