It is definitely getting colder in the evenings and in the morning. No longer can I venture down into my office in bare feet and shorts – Something more like jeans and slippers are needed at least until the day warms up. Running can still be done in shorts and a t-shirt though – and thanks to the Sydney climate it can be all year around. Not that I would want to got for a walk outside with shorts and t-shirt in the middle of Winter, but it is no problem to go running wearing that little.

I need to think about if I want to compete in the City to Surf this year. It could be fun. The way I am going I think I would be able to put in a quite respectable time

Just looking at BoingBoing.Net, our good friends at Dell are going to release a new laptop next year – with a 19″ screen. Probably a bit big for me, but it would be cute. As for other interesting computer news, this German has some cute pictures about running a computer in Vegetable Oil for cooling…

Photo of the Day

Another photo from that same trip – this is a hot pond in Rotorua in the North Island. The place has felt the damage of tourism and they investing in improving things. I gave a lecture in Rotorua, and stayed with a Local. The hot springs, boiling mud and all that is cute to visit.

Probably the best thing was Lunch – my host and his wife had gone fishing a few weeks before on Lake Rotorua, after living there seven years. And had frozen some nice trout. So he smoked them for us. So delicious – beautiful.