The Big Game

The game went well, for all participants. Props to Mick and Jen for tying the knot. Mick and Jen both looked stunning, and the day was fantastic. Big-ups to Tim and Tom for also making the day so much fun.


Mick, Tim and Tom, leaving for the big game


Jen and Mick, leading the rest of the players to the field


Mick and Jen: get a room!


The blokes

I won’t go into great long details about the day, but the highlights were:

  • Mexican, Pool and Beer for the night before
  • Mum, for making bacon and eggs for breakfast
  • Everybody making through the ceremony :)
  • Double the fist!
  • The guy behind the bar, who was always onto us with our hidden hip-flasks, and kept bringing us coke
  • Tux for making an appearance!

You can also check out Tim and Tom’s accounts of the event.

The photos, I think accurately portray the day, so check out Mick and Jen’s Wedding in my gallery ;)

Mick and Jen’s Wedding: Before

Mick, Tim, Tom and myself went out for dinner, played some pool and generally loitered around, before the big game tomorrow (Mick and Jen’s wedding)

The kick-off is at 1pm. Go team!

Hot

I am hot.

Bringing Melways into the Google era

For a while, Jezza and I have been mucking around with the Melways maps from street-directory.com.au. We’ve been working out ways to actually make their web site much better than it currently is. It was always painful to try and navigate your way through the little 300×300px window at a zoom level that was easy enough so that you could actually read the street names. We made a page that let us navigate the maps using your full browser window, and let you click to center the map. Life was good.

Recently, Jezza and I have been talking about making draggable maps, in the same fashion as google and yahoo maps. Using some great GPL javascript from the guys at openstreetmap.org, I have managed to interface their draggable map code to use the street-directory interface.

You can either search for an address or get started right away on the Melbourne CBD. It’s only working in Mozilla/Firefox at the moment, but it should soon be working in IE and Safari. I’m not sure if Konqueror can handle it though. Have a play, and leave some comments.

Night out with Shane and Dan and Stereo MC’s

I won two tickets to go see Stereo MC’s on Friday night, but couldn’t find anybody to come with me, so I ended up going to the gig by myself. It wasn’t so bad, because I went out with Shane and Dan before and after the gig, which was a bit of fun. I took my camera with me, so I’ve created a new Album in my gallery: Night out with Shane and Dan.

Shane and Dan at the bar, Zoolander style
Shane and Dan at the Bar, Zoolander style

Stereo MC's
Stereo MC’s