In Melbourne for the first time. 36 degrees yesterday, only 27 or so today which is much nicer. And little Caspian, my third nephew was born yesterday!

This is a ripping good laugh: the chap who broke a set of priceless vases while visting a museum…

There’s a sad tale on flickr of Vinnie the Boston Terrier pup who has broken his leg. His blog is here and you can donate too.

Songbird is an music player for your ‘puter a bit like iTunes, Amarok, or Winamp. It is in alpha so only for the adventurous, but I dig the farting bird mascot and the beautiful website and design of the app.

Flock have released their first beta (0.7). Cool. Alright.

The stupendously great Russell Brown has a super writeup about Webstock over at the Listener.

The recordings of Webstock conference are now available for download in a number of formats. Alright.

After playing around with Flock I finally got a flickr account. I thought they were totally spak but it’s kinda fun. Great business model too. You get sucked in, blow your 20 meg limit in one day and then you go, “ah screw it, I’ll pay $25 US and go pro”. Clever buggers.

Microsoft BS that will entertain you (thanks to vowe.net). Check out the far right column.