informal dialogue

• Certainly feeling the urban heat island effect today.. #
• Where are you #rta? Not at your advertised address, that's for sure. 280 Elizabeth st, building c, for now anyway. #
• Just you try and stop me obsessively listening to band of horses. Go on. #
• Guess who's getting his ear drawn by @tonycurran tonight.. #
• I cycled 11km today and played a 30 minute game of futsal! #Exhausted... #

• Melbourne's looking beautiful today! #
• Can anybody explain why the maps and SMS apps have different contact lists compared to the contacts app? #
• Jetstar: because plans were meant to be broken. #
• emergenturbanism.com #
• If I am lost, it's only for a little while.. #
• I'm just about to head out to tropfest, anybody coming with me? #
• i just reminded myself of morgan freeman in invictus - "who's with me!?" funniest ridiculous moment in that silly, silly movie #

• tell me this isn't just #daylight #robbery - #Optus #prepaid #mobiles charge $1.32 per 60KB of #data. #wtf! #
• let me say it again; #optus #prepaid #data charges at $1.32 for each time you request a website like, say, google.com. #daylight #robbery #
• I think I must have killed 8 mosquitos so far tonight. sheeesh! #
• all is not lost.. three data packs are waaay more affordable http://www.three.com.au/valuepacks #
• come on down to boutwell draper gallery tonight for a show I'm in- starts at 6pm, 82 George st redfern #
• Four square is kinda fun but very buggy... Storms in Sydney tonight? Good luck! #
• Pilot: "I've given up trying to figure out when we'll be able to take off.. Thanks for your patience." #
• thank you all for coming to see my silhouette man at boutwell draper gallery last night #
• In my fantasy land everyone on this bus is also jamming along to kidsmoke... Spiders are singing in the salty breeze! #
• Could I be any happier right now? #

• The fantastic mr fox was "quote unquote" fantastic Wes Anderson really knows what he's doing. #
• what a wasted day. #
• I'm at uts dab (22 Harris st ultimo, Broadway, The University of Sydney). http://4sq.com/bumHsZ #
• I just became the mayor of Waratah on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/9qQX4o #
• I'm at Waratah (Johnston st, Annandale). http://4sq.com/9qQX4o #
• has anybody toyed with google app engine, java and eclipse? too much learning for one day, doing my head in. easier? simpler? enlighten me #
• off to watch the office (nbc). anyone care to join? #
• Am I the only one who finds this a bit creepy? http://bit.ly/9E2K6l #
• oh and also, google app engine + processing = cloud based sensor database . #
• Kenny vs spenny - who can commit the most crime. Possibly the funniest thing i've ever seen (this week) #
• 37 minutes til the next train on a Sunday afternoon? Sydney public transport is woeful. #
• So you get to the bus stop 10 minutes before it's meant to come, and it doesn't show. When does the next bus come? In 1 hour. Fark. #

• cuthbert & the nightwalkers in the spiegeltent was so much fun! "thankyou sydney festival for bringing us all the way here from newtown.." #
• This is clever - check out what's hot in the world of food book publishing http://bit.ly/aWg0DD #

• loved 'up in the air' by walter kirn, but hated the movie by jason reitman - seriously ruined it, so disappointed #

• An example of fanatical dedication - HomeAlone rewritten in twitter format http://bit.ly/6e5AqL a merry christmas to you all! #

• Howcome I haven't watched 30Rock before? #
• waaaay too much honey in this banana smoothie.. meanwhile #
• ever notice how two related tweets read in the wrong order, like words painted on streets? maybe these should be composed in reverse? #

This might come in handy to some of you, it has made life remarkably easier for me in recent months;

Steps involved;

1. navigate to a desired location in google maps
2. paste this script into the url bar + hit enter

 
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
 

3. a window will pop up showing you the gps coordinates of that location
4. done!

Hope it helps!

• looking for more on yvonne rogers' "cloud" lobby installation, does anybody know more on this? google reveals nothing.. #
• Does anybody use RescueTime? It looks good so far, any bugs/comments? #

Are you going to Index tonight? It's the end of year show for the UTS Architecture school, with work being exhibited from all 5 years.  Go check it out!

• I've got 1 free day down in melbourne today, any suggestions? #
• Hahaha, I just remembered the http://www.tinyurl.com/atagwhichmakestheurlmuchlongerthanitreallyshouldbe link given at the OzCHI closing yesterday #
• Sorry, make that - the http://tinyurl.com/atagwhichmakestheurlmuchlonger ref given at the OzCHI closing yesterday #

Shouldn't a URL 'shortener' service make the URL shorter? perhaps even a google search term would have been appropriate, but then again that might have used up enough energy to boil a kettle*.

* I'll have to explain this one later..

I'm heading down to Melbourne tomorrow for the 2009 OZCHI conference with Frank Maguire, Bert Bongers and Dan Hill, to attend and present (with Frank) some research work we've done recently.  I'm looking forward to it, one of the add-ons for this conference is a workshop on Street Computing organised by the ubiquitous Marcus Foth.  Dan and Andrew will be presenting some of their research, as will Bert - so it's shaping up to be a really great day tomorrow.  To anyone who's going to be at the workshop, I look forward to meeting you, the same goes to anyone else floating around the conference...

Catch you later in the week, hope this bizarre Sydney weather doesn't get the better of you!

J