More bloody rain in these storm clouds, I guess.

Meet Sebastian - he is the resident one-eyed cat at the Mascot Vet Surgery.

VERY quiet for a Saturday night. Global Financial Crisis? Or people are just sick of the shite food from the bistro?

....ya gotta love it ;-)

Gutters are overflowing and the kitchen is being flooded before my very eyes.

Yes, it went broke.

Just took this happy-snap of a 1/3rd page Tax Office advertisement in our local community newspaper.

Remember, folks, 15 MARCH 2009 is the deadline if you need to tweak your details with the ATO for Kevin07's handout.

CLICK HERE to see it full size, mmmkay?

....from someone who wasn't actually there.

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OMGZ! HAI! I'm at AdTech again. Hashtag hashtag! Who else is hung over? Presos start. Let's hang
shit on the presenter. w00t! Saying FAIL feels really good this time of the morning. WTF?! I'm
being hit with marketing pitches at an advertising and blogging orgy? Who woulda thunk it? Wifi
is still running - time to update by Bebo site. Branding, schmanding where are the pretty booth
grrrls? Facebook TOS(sers) - let me ask questions and be self-righteous. That feels good [touches
self all over]. Now, Where is teh Twitter dude? Oh, Hai! There you are. @He and @She - soooo
cute. TwitPic FTBIPW (for the blurry iPhone picture win). ROI yeah, whatever. Did anyone get
lucky last night after drinks? Panel are pussies - we want geek bitchfight now, plz. Coffee and
ping pong is so l337 (again). Keywords are best thing since sliced spam. We've all been sucked
into visiting yellowtreehouse.co.nz (who said us SEO/blogging/SM experts are immune from viral
marketing?). Oooh - holograms, perhaps I will get me a woman one day! Engagement, dialogue,
listeing, blah blah blah. Heard it all before - why were tix to this $1K+? Ad wanker parts
per million = high. Click, click. Flossie. Magpie. Need MOAR CAWFEE. GFC/credit crunch is
impervious to spam - we iz invincable! Wish I was there. oh, I am at the love-in after all. Sorry.
KITTENS! Where is teh google? Yahoo=meh. Cluetrain. Data capture. Metrics/measuring. XBox.
J&J. Luv my iPhone, but wish it had copy/paste to make entering these #atsyd hastags faster.
Measure. Costs. I can haz authentic - that's why my avatar is screencap from World of Warcraft.
Drowsy - need microsleep. Peace, love and happiness. Mobile. Cloud - and other abstract shite.
Xefer. Tooheys. Mmm....beeeeer. Who owns what. Buzzwords. Whatever. Drinks. See you next year.
kthxbai
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....from someone who wasn't actually there.

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Arriving at ad:tech OMGZ! We need hastags! I have an iPhone. YEAH! #atsyd1 #atsyd2 #adtech #atsyd3
There's @him and @her and @someoneelse. Presos - yay. I give good preso, too. I'm on later. Live-
tweetin my Flossie swag bag. Will never need the frangers, but OMG! chocolate FTW! So many pretty
Macbooks. Advertising and social media expert says keep it real - fuck me, he's brilliant. Lunch in
little plastic trays. Noms. Beats stale Doritos out of a bag. Free wifi. Yay. No, BOO! The BitTorrent
ports are blocked. Something about dead tree media. Those guys are luzers. Here's my blurry iPhone
TwitPic of the actions. Weee, free ping-pong FTW! Anyone else here? Oh hello, lots of people here -
not just me after all. I'm SEO expert and super-uber power-blogger. Anyone got a phone charger? Panel
session. Dude with Slashdot t-shit, soooooo 2003. I'm off for drinks and will attempt to be sociable.
kthxbai
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Finished work for another day (yes, a Sunday), and I'm uploading this pic from bed. I've snapped it to accompany my final Twitter post for the day.

It's a macro (of a contact lens) with a reflected self-portrait. Yes, I look like a complete twat in this pic ;-p Hey - it was impossible to hold the camera phone steady AND hold my breath AND look cool. As Meatloaf said, two out of three aint bad.

Settings:
Shot in 1MP mode (1280x960) - resized in-camera to 640x480
Night mode at -1.0 brightness (to add a bit of grain)
1.4x zoom
Incandescent white balance
Superfine quality
Auto-focus
Contrast +3.0
Saturation +3.0
Sharpness +3.0
Greyscale effect
Average-weighted metering
50Hz flicker adjustment