Karls Blog

Most people will have already headr about Microsoft Surface. A good demo is seen here:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/sticker-shock/video-of-bill-gates-showing-off-his-expensive-table-264453.php

I saw this last nite and was thinking for sometime 'What is this actually useful for as far as consumers are concerned?'. Sure its nice to show pics and movies, but its only a little wow factor on XMbox 360 + Media Centre.

But then it hit me - DJ decks. This thing would ROCK as a DJ deck. Come up, put yr wireless device (like Zune) on, drag songs, scratch mix, do all yr crassfading and equalisation - VERY KEWL!

Now I want one ;)

This is unreal! Check out these links to Google 360 degree street view on Google Maps:

LA

San Fran

No idea how its useful yet, but it looks awsome!!!

Nice pick of Google in 20 years:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thevoyagers/518750492/

PS - Been a long month with a trip to China, 2 trips to Sydney and a trip to Brisbane, but back in (windy!) Melbourne, so should have some more interesting tid bits soon...

I get way too many marketing calls to my landline I was thinking of disconnecting it, but I so love my new 7.5mb/s ADSL from Internode :) So I very happy to see the federal government has launched a 'do not call' registry:

www.donotcall.gov.au

PS - According to The Age (link) the opporators have been having a few problems with load - should have had WDG build it ;)

Just noticed that Melbourne water just dropped below 30%.

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water/water_storages/water_storages.asp

Scary. Not as bad as South Queensland tho, below 20%...

http://www.seqwater.com.au/content/standard.asp?name=DamOperationsandMaintenance