Go the Catters! They finally break a long 43 year premiership drought, against the Adelaide Crows, in Adelaide. The odds were against them: playing interstate, many of the big forwards out with injury, but they managed to get the points. Read about it at the GFC website. I hope this translates to a very good premiership season for Geelong.

Melbourne was really busy last night with the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony going on. The streets were packed around Federation Square and along the Yarra as people were getting together to check out what the fuss was all about.

Me, Shane and Bek walked into Fed Square and met up with J-Unit and Ruth. Watched the big screen for a bit.

Fireworks were going off everywhere around Melbourne.

A short walk towards the Yarra, to see the fish. They had all the AFL team captains walk the baton along it.

The Arts Centre grassy area was covered in sand for a ‘Beach’ scene. Pepsi: $4, Beer $4. Hmmm

From what I saw of the opening ceremony, it was just weird. Flying tram, a goose that turns into a flying lady, flying Koalas… very strange. I did however, love the fact that the Cat Empire played while the athletes were entering the MCG. The Cat Empire rock.

Plenty of stuff is going on. Here’s just a little about what’s happening:

Gnome 2.14 is released today. Very exciting. It’ll probably only take the Gentoo guys 6 months for it to be marked stable. I might have to do the package.unmask thing.

I tried out the Kororaa (Gentoo-based) live CD, with the new XGL stuff in it last night. Very impressive. Some kick ass eye-candy in there. I hope to see this running on my desktop soon. Probably be a bit longer on my powerbook, as the opensource r300 driver isn’t quite there yet.

A patch was send to the Debian PPC list today for sound support on the PowerBook5,8. I patched my 2.6.16-rc5 kernel, and it works! I had to make a small change to an ALSA config file (as there was an error in it), but all the gory details can be found on my wiki page.

The gradiators are back in action, with a YMCA organised lunchtime volleyball comp. The skill level is much lower than the over comp we were in, which made it a nice change. Big-ups to Nelsie for her first game.

Last, but not least, Melbourne is crazy at the moment with the Commonwealth Games stuff going on at the moment. Blue car lanes, batons being run through the streets and giant floating fish in the Yarra. A few of us are going down to Federation Square to see some live opening ceremony stuff on the big screen. Look out for those crazy floating fish though.

It’s official. I am leaving the Big-T. It’s been fun, but now it’s time to move on (even if it is back to VPAC )

Sol to Andy: ‘Peace out’.

Big-Ups to Tom for the pic.

Krispy Kreme are open soon in Melbourne, and had a big publicity event, giving away 10,000 doughnuts. It started at 10am, and we probably got there just after that, but it looks like we were way too late. There were people lining up everywhere, even out on the streets.

Instead, we went to Max Brenner, and had the Italian thick milk hot chocolate, from recommendation of James. I think i just undid all that work at the gym