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The unpacked mess

There is not much of the office yet and I am the only one in the office until next week, but that's it...

The office move

The office move has happened yesterday afternoon.

It was funny seeing all the company 'stuff' in boxes waiting to be packed into the truck for the move.

It didn't look all that impressive really, but then I realised the valuable stuff isn't the files of paper, the furniture or the computer equipment.

No it's the intellectual property in the computers and the knowledge in the files.

If needs be the company could be totally virtual with none of the trappings of a normal office, the only required would be computers, access to the Internet and telephones.

The office looks a bit of a tip at the moment but not too bad, we will go off to IKEA tomorrow to get the rest of the furniture.

Yeah I know it's IKEA, but lessons learnt from previous office fit outs are spend as little as you possibly can on the fit out and get the biggest bang for your buck!

Some things like the desk lights and the corbusier chairs and aero chairs are design classics, but the new office pods for staff are just plain white tables grouped together.

I am looking for so,e office partitions that I can have covered in fabric that I like, something more modern and fun like a nice

The only part of the new office fit out that I am really and I mean really unsure of is how to divide the space between my 'office' and the rest of the space. I was going to have one of those big open IKEA square block bookcases.

But with furniture in the office I have decided I don't want to waste the space.

I did find the room dividers on line but they are in the US - http://store.dvider.com/gallery.html

So I need to find a solution that I can install some sort of patterned see through screen to differentiate the spaces.

I will post some pictures when I take them.

It's a bit of a fish bowl right now because one huge long wall out into the atrium is glass and the frosting has not yet been installed so it feels like I am an animal in the zoo (or am I?).

Hopefully most things will come together this weekend!

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What is this?

It's a block diagram of my new office.

cool huh!

Let's just wait and see though how it actually turns out!

I wan;t clean white style, not something in between cheap and tacky lol

Rhetoric can say anything!

Now that the dust has settled from World Youth Day we can start to look at the event and the consequences.

The Sydney Chamber of Commerce and World Youth Day Organisers are crowing that the event bought in over 200 Million dollars to the economy.

Whilst the actual stores in the City themsleves are talking about a 10% decrease in business.

The reality is probably a loss why?

Because the majority of the pilgrims were from poorer countries and ad no money to actually spend on normal tourist things, like eating at restaurants, hotels etc.

The event itself was at least 20 - 25% smaller than expected, which says a lot allot about the secular composition of our own country, and reminds us that we are in fact a very diverse country.

But let's not forget the most important legacy from this event.

That is the tacit approval of homophobic violence by people of faith. Yes you read it the even t has tacitly approved and promoted homophobia and violence.

I am still fuming that the idiot dilgrim who attacked a protester was not charged with anything even though it was obvious to anyone that he hit a protester.

On Sunday night as I was wandering down Oxford street and the dilgrims were wandering the other day I got caught between two groups calling out homophobic abuse at the obviously gay boys in the pubs and on the streets.

Direct connection I think between homophobia and the event.

Then the he was not charged sends a strong and clear message to people that you can beat a poofter and you won't get charged if you do it for religous reasons.

But why does the Government think it's OK to promote homophobia?

I don't think that we can ever get equality in this country whilst such large emphasis is placed on an event like this that is not even representative of our country.

We have such a huge and I mean huge way to go to get equality,m especially when our new Prime Minister who I used to have respect for grovelled and cow-towed to the Catholic church.

Deep Brain Stimualtion

I am not particularly close to my extended family, there are pockets that I am closer to which is nice and there are entire sections of the extended family that I would have preferred does not exist (and probably vice versa).

Anyway one of my close relatives my aunt has Parkinson's disease which she was diagnosed at 38 some twenty something years ago.

As the years have progressed her symptoms have worsened considerably and the involuntary movements, shuffle, trouble speaking etc has become in a word debilitating.

But today she will go into hospital to Have a new kind of treatment, Deep Brain Stimulation DBS which is one of the greatest hopes for control of Parkinson's disease.

Essentially they will sedate her and then insert a series of electrical probes into the part of her brain which causes the 'mis - firing' and symptoms of Parkinson's. When they find the part of the brain they will leave some electrical probes in there and hook them up to something like a heart pacemaker.

This all happens while she is fully awake too, this way they can make sure they find the correct part of the brain.

The idea is that this device will prevent the symptoms of the Parkinson's.

This is a monumental step forward for Parkinson's sufferers and I hope this really helps my Aunt's condition!

I am not sure that I could cope with being awake for this type of thing, I think it would just freak me out far too much, but if I had Parkinson's disease and had lived for so long with the symptoms I suppose you would put up with a bit of discomfort!

More info on DBS

For those of you pervets!

If you would like watch the boys in Fitness First whilst sipping a nice cocktail, head over to the Kings Cross Hoetl in Kings Cross and use the 5th level bar.

I love the review in the SMH:

instead we were eyeballing a gym. More disturbingly, it was filled with healthy
types bending, stretching and lifting weights when the most exercise I was
getting for the night was walking down a short flight of stairs to the bathroom.

Source

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Luke Worrell

I am kind of fascinated by Luke Worrell, he's kinds of hot in a young blonde andronygous way.

And you may have seen him on the arm of Kelley Osbourne, this is her new boy toy!

So is he too young?

Just Right?

Wrong?

Too emo?

What do you think?

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This scares me shitless

I could not imgaine living in such sameness, but so many aspire to this.

New Site Modelmayhem.com

I came across this online community for aspiring models to promote themsleves and decided to show some of the Australian hotties I found!

The site is quite funny, it's almost like a weird sort of gaydar / ego stroke site. Some of the prodiles are just down right scary and to think that these guys actually think they have what it takes to be a model is well um breathtaking.

But some of the guys are just down right stunning, but yet again there are so many guys that look so good, do they all think that the world needs more male models just like them?

http://www.modelmayhem.com

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The horror of it all

Today we went to Ikea for the second time in probably 5 years to look at desks and tables for my new office.

I now remember why the last time I went there I said I would never go again.

The ugly ugly ugly people, and so many of them it's insane, and the total crap that is in that place, if that's not an environmental disaster I have no idea what is.

Yeah sure I know they are one of the most ecologically friendly manufacturing companies (they use recycled products, use farmed timber etc. But that's all well and good but the entire store is just one big bargain basement of stuff you don't really need.

The 1 dollar bargains like candles, hangers, glasses, T towels etc sure they are useful, but only if you actually need them!

Not surprisingly we didn't buy anything and it looks like I will be moving into the new office with virtually only the furniture we have now and none of the new desks for people or meeting room stuff.

It's not a bad thing per se, but at the very least I don't want to be sharing my desk with anyone while we choose new desking solutions.

I am hoping that some time this week we will do the move as well, the new telephone is connected just waiting for the Internet to be connected and then we will do the move.

Totally unrelated I saw this cool use of an Italla vase as a fish bowl, cute huh?

And I was reminded that I wanted a fish again (when we went to replace the last fish we came home with the beagle) but I am not sure I could be bothered cleaning a fish bowl as it's a lot of work!

You can see more of the ittala bowl with fish over at Apartment Therapy.

Just as I was writing this a group of 'Dilgrims" (dumb pilgrims) were just making their way down Oxford street and it TOTALLY set the puppy off.

Their incessant jubilant singing drove the poor pet quite mad and she made her feelings felt by barking at them.

Mind you every time the Pope and his motorcade went by she has been barking her little head off too.

I find it amusing that the dimlgims have been quite disappointed because they have not caught a glimpse of the Pope whereas I have seen him now three times going up and down Oxford street.

I wonder whether he realises he has been going up and down the Mardi Gras route? Probably not but he wouldn't really look all that out of place in what he is wearing.

So there we are at least I have been having fun.

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Mike and Nick

Visit Buzz West to see Mike and Nick

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Dawson Fucks Jeff

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Why wasn't he charged?

Why was the guy who attacked a protester today at the No To Pope Rally not charged?

The video clearly shows him attacking the Protesters.

If it was one of us we would have been charged

It's not on, he should be charged with assault!

Remember the face in these photos, this is the face of someone who will most likely attack someone else, he should be charged and made aware that homophobic violence is not on!

Source

Not To Pope Rally this afternoon

This afternoon I went to the No To Pope Rally to protest against the homophobia of the Catholic Church and to Taunt the Pilgrims (sorry I meant spread a message of non discrimination).

What absolutely shocked me was the number of Police that were present to 'protect' the pilgrims from us rabble, literally hundreds of Police were used, on horse bike, cars and even the Police Helicopter to keep an eye on the rally.

It always annoys me that these events end up being a total extreme left wing talk fest which went on at Taylor Square for almost an hour before anything else happened.

It gets very dull waiting through their speeches which you can't hear!

Anyway the pictures were taken on the new iPhone camera

Labels: politics

Guess who Batman - (Fuck you very very much)

Look inside
Look inside your tiny mind
Then look a bit harder
Cos we're so uninspired
So sick and tired
Of all the hatred you harbor

So you say it's not okay to be gay
Well, I think you're just evil
You're just some racist
Who can't tie my laces
Your point of view is medieval

Fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So, please don't stay in touch

Fuck you
Fuck you very, very much
Cos your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So, please don't stay in touch

Do you get
Do you get a little kick out of being small-minded
You want to be like your father
It's approval you're after
Well, that's not how you find it

Do you
Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful
Cuz there's a hole where your soul should be
You're losing control of it
And it's really distasteful

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