My life, My travels and other stuff
So yesterday was thanksgiving here in (a very) sunny california, it seems to be a time to get together with family followed by a good escuse for all the shops to have big sales, I’ve never seen so many people piling in to consumer goods shops to buy ’stuff’, and that was at 11am, the shops opened at 5am today!!!
So I just looked out of my office window and saw this:
4 big deer wondering about around my car, you don’t get that in Credit Suisse I can tell you 
So I’m in the states after my first week of work over here, we now have a plan to go forward with our ideas, and now starts the research to see if we can achieve what we want to.
I’m blogging this from my new MacBook Pro using a rather cool piece of software that appears on my Mac Dash and allows direct posting to the blog, so expect much more in the way of updates!!
While I’m on the subject of technology, I’ve also been making great use of TomTom Navigator 6 in my Ford Taurus, I love paper maps, but theres nothing like an autorouting, moving map GPS system to keep you on the right track in a new city when driving down the wrong side of the road
I’ve also been making fantastic use of www.0064.co.nz’s voice over IP service to keep in touch with Liz, thanks to us having broadband and a Sipura 2100 ATA with a DECT cordless handset at home I’ve been making free calls to NZ with crystal clear quality, I’m not surte I want to go back to normal telephony after this!
I’ve also invested in a PAYG SIM on the Cingular network, when I say SIM I actually mean SIM and a dodgy Motorola Hanset for a grand total of 30 Dollars, obviously the SIM is now in my K800 I should be getting a work mobile shortly, again on Cingular, but most proberbly a Motorola Razr3 handset. Now if the US rolled on 3G I’d be happy…
Right, I have a bottle of Matua Valey Pinot Nior that been waiting since 2004 for someone to drink it, so I’d better go and make it happy!!!
XFM seem to have decided to limit the streaming service to UK residents only by asking for a postcode on the website, luckily for me, I’ve located the actual server which opens up the stream just fine on my Pocket PC:
http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/playlist.asx?streamid=9
