I watched Blood Diamond and The Departed today. One at the movies, one on DVD. Leo was good in both of them. I reckon his character in Blood Diamond was probably the most interesting character I’ve seen him do. I really enjoyed him. The film was good, good action, and a conscience.The Departed was excellent. I can see why it got Mr Oscar. So much good story and good acting and good characters and smartness. Good stuff I reckon.

a lady survives a fall becase she landed on a pile of poo.

thanks david for fixing my technical problems. And i know how much you hate being asked all the time to help other people with their computers so david this next bit is for you.

Just because david fixed my computer doest mean he will fix yours!

been getting these wierd “data calls” on my phone tongiht from some number i’ve never seen before. I cant answer it its some weirdo thing it says data call on my screen and askes me to connect to infered. but then doesnt answer. very strange, what the hell is a data call.

i saved the number and called it back it was some guy, for some reason he was calling my number looking for some guy called eddy, thats not me.

but what the hell is a data call that requires infrared????

On Sunday I’m off to central Australia on a 13 day coach trip. Its for work we do it every year take a bunch of young people on a pretty amazing journey.

anyway i’m not here to bore you with the details of the trip, I’m here to bore you with the details of internet connection whilst on the road.

We are travelling by coach and each night it is my task to send an email with some photos attached  to a colleague at Yulara.

at present my phone plan has GPRS capabilities but its 2.2 cents per kilobyte which works about to be about $20 per email if i attach 2 photos and send a reasonable amount of text from my laptop through my phone. So i went to my phone company today and asked if i could get a better data trasfer deal on my plan or an add on package or somethng, well they dont do any good data services and they told me to try a different company.

I’m half way thorugh my contract so i cant just drop everything and start up with a new company just so for the next 2 weeks i can send emails at a cheaper rate.

Anyway after visiting 5 differnet phone shops in westfield, a dude at vodafone hooked me up with a vodafone simcard that i can use to connect to GPRS for heaps cheap and i’m not locked ninto any contract, I can use it for the nesxt month then ring up and cancel it and there is no dissconection fee, best of all its $29.95 for 100mb . oh yeah!

Now all i have to do is sit back, relax and wait for prawn to tell me that there is something better i could have done.

Last night when wife and i got home from the AFL, after loosing by one point to West Coast, spirits where low.

But then sitting at the front door was a 600ml coke. No note or anything indicating who it was from.

Whoever you are, thanks for the buddy, buddy.