Happy New Year! All the best for 2008

Looking back at 07

Best experience: Finally going to Japan to be a tourist in Tokyo and snowboard the resorts in Hokkaido. Finally going to the north side of Vietnam. Ha Long Bay and Sa Pa was amazing, I still need to upload the photos for this trip.

Design related stuff: Haline being in Cut & Paste and her Universe group exhibiton, getting a grant for a photographic exhibition at the Japan Foundation, really like the new Sydney Opera House logo and website redesign as well as the Apple website… and the iPod touch.

Weird achievement for 2007: Finished ‘Hard Level’ on Guitar Hero 2!

Last note for 07: KEVIN 07

Looking forward to 08

I’m not superstitious about the number 8 being a lucky number in asian culture but I think 08 for me will be about working hard and saving money.

We’re planning a France/European trip for Haline’s brothers wedding. We’ve booked a few domestic flights from the Jetstar sales to Melbourne and Cairnes.

Work and the Japan Foundation exhibition will take most of my time.

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It is now 3 whole years that I’ve had this blog, looking over the archives, the number of posts from month to month have been sporatic, mostly this year because of an increased work load, being over seas and disinterest. I think I’m coming to terms with having this read or mostly not, by people who I have crossed paths with in a negative way. Its hard to edit what is personal and whats not, design related stuff vs private experiences. I guess blogging is choosing to make this information available in the public domain, and if people read it, fine, I’m not going to censor myself…too much hehe

See ya in 2008.

Who’s that in the dark?

Watching cars go by.

Well, I’ve had the iPod touch for about a week now, playing with it constantly everyday!

This little gadget is so sexy! I haven’t played with something like this and felt the glee of technology since I got my other iPod 3 years ago. Reviews have said that its lacking compared to the iPhone, but we don’t get those down here till next year so you don’t miss what you haven’t got I guess. Surfing the net on the touch is nice, its almost like the real thing without Flash and Quicktime. I’ve emailed via webmail, GMail mobile is simple and clean, went to Amazon to test order a book, Googled stuff, set up Google Reader so I can read all my RSSed blogs and found my house on Google Maps. Facbook is great on the touch too. YouTube is fun, most or all of the popular videos are searchable to watch, even our nerds video.

Typing on the on screen keyboard takes getting used to, mistakes are common. some of the controls don’t pick up your finger input and require several tries sometime.One thing that surprised me was how strong the WiFi detection is, I was driving home one night and decided to see if I could pick up any network. From a short 3km car trip I was constantly picking up people’s WiFi, about half of them were unlocked and I could join. Some of the names were just the modem name like Dlink, Netgear, others were nick names, one was the address of the house it was coming from! and one had “I smell sex and candy” I was never out of range of a single network, blocked or unblocked. If everybody unblocked their WiFi this could potentially be a nice roaming network.

This post was published on an open WiFi network via the touch a short walk from my house ( :

and its Amazing! Its been a crazy few weeks with work and things, Haline and I went to the Japan Film Festival opening to see Maiko Haaaan, then Kaki King (she’s amazing too) at the Opera House, which by the way has a very nice new website. And its my birthday ( : Thank you Haline for a great weekend and touch siah!