Team lunch to celebrate the launch of topbetta.com! http://twitpic.com/2zo99j
I see a Guild discussion happening. But I have had too many beers at this point to get involved in a meaningful way. 🙂
@ozgamer @venks79 I was being edgy! And angular! (And I think I turned HDR off.) 🙂
Rang Sydney Botanic Gardens to ask about having a BBQ there. Woman answered and said NO, no fire allowed, and was really snotty about it. 🙁
The deadline crunch at work this week meant that I missed both my Monday yoga class and my Wednesday Spudds workout. I did get in all my runs though, and I think it really helped with my stress levels.
Oct. 17: 10.02km
Oct. 19: 6.00km
Oct. 21: 6.09km
Total this week: 22.04km (13.8mi)
Total in 2010: 798.02km (498.7mi)
To meet my goal of running 1000km in 2010, I should be at 807.6km. Less than 10km behind pace now! I’m making it up…
I’ve been pretty quiet lately, huh? The main reason is this website, which just launched on Wednesday. I have been working on this site for about five months, and the original specification I wrote ran to over 70 pages. It was a mammoth undertaking. And it didn’t stop once we got into development; I have since done a *dozen* different versions of the spec as things were added, removed, and changed. The dev team were amazing, and they pulled out all the stops in the last few weeks to get it done. There have been a few hiccups since launch, of course, but far less than I had feared. Now we get to start putting back in a lot of the stuff that was cut for deadline. But not today, today we finally get to celebrate getting to the (first) finish line. Well done to everyone on my team! We did a good job.
@getupgo Hahaha… The concept of a “food baby” always makes me laugh.
@imdominating I’ve not seen it, but I have it to watch. Is JGL totes adorable in it? Should I make Snook suffer through it? 🙂
Snookums is telling me about Stephen Bradbury’s inspirational talk at Yahoo today. Sounds like an awesome guy!
@mrs_sockvictim No fair! You know I’m hopeless with secrets! Spill! 🙂
@kunaal84 Yowch! Isn’t that why y’all wear pads?
What the heck, Sydney? George St is a parking lot. Been sitting on bus outside 3 Monkeys for like 10 minutes.
@L4Designs I have never forgiven him for that whole browser upgrade initiative thing 9 years ago: http://bit.ly/aw4tc9
Anybody else going to the Granny Square grand opening tonight? http://thegrannysquare.com.au/
@kunaal84 Yep. Grand opening of my friend’s knitting shop in Newtown!
@kunaal84 Nope. Those are overseas pretties, hence their highly prized status in Oz.
@Yarna_ @knitterjp Yikes, that sucks. Hope you’re back to normal soon…
@miss_reecie Remember, moss grows on the north side of the trees! Oh shit, wait. Is that reversed in this hemisphere? #nohelpatall
Fun at the Granny Square grand opening tonight: http://twitpic.com/2z80ul http://twitpic.com/2z80wf http://twitpic.com/2z80xv
Attack of the Bieber Knitters! http://twitpic.com/2z813e http://twitpic.com/2z814n http://twitpic.com/2z8165 (@mrs_sockvictim @knitterjp)
@witty_knitter You’re lucky I didn’t get you guys too!
@TitusAtticus Nah, that’s Albie. He’s not Indian; he’s Jewish! Sydney entrepreneur extraordinaire and local knitting magnate.
For the curious, the shwoopy teen hairstyling was courtesy of BieberHair (http://bit.ly/9cICwJ), the Best. App. Ever. (Thanks @kunaal84!)
@randomknits Hahahaha… I know, awesome, right?! 🙂
@randomknits BIEBERBUNNY. Cuteness x 10.
@chrisgander Ew! I like Lea Michele, but she looks like a cheap sex doll in those photos. 🙁
Just completed a 6.09 km run with RunKeeper – 4x400m speed intervals again. Slower & harder; allergies making it hard to breathe. Foot sore.
Why are women depicted differently from men in food photography? EXACTLY. This is why I still have a hard time taking Nigella Lawson seriously. Men get to be chefs; women have to be porn stars posing with phallic vegetables.
Writing my first HTML at work in, oh, 2 years. Feels good.
@wcritchie You’re right. Just hard to look on the bright side when you’re standing in the rain waiting for a bus knowing you’ll be late!
@L4Designs When I write HTML, it’s like it’s still 1999. *sigh*
A day that started bad turned out good in the end. Productive work, relaxing run, nice dinner, and project success. More tomorrow…
@L4Designs Not a Zeldman fan. 🙂 (I write plenty of HTML and PHP and SQL in my spare time. It was just novel to get to do it at work!)
Dear Internet: http://www.topbetta.com is live. I’ve been living and breathing this site for 5 months. The day is finally here!
Hooray for @carbolicious, who has offered to play international courier for me. Looks like I’ll get my Dansko Marcelles after all. 🙂
My name is Kris. I’ve been blogging since the 90’s. I live in Sydney, Australia, and I spent most of my career in the tech industry.
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My home economics teacher taught us to use “J cloths” as press cloths. (Cellulose cleaning cloths). The upside of using…
Special thanks to Matt Hinrichs for the site logo!
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