BurbleChaz

To work again. Fun with crashing routers and kernel corruption. Some positive sessions doing handwaving about data migration. This is not quite as interesting as it sounds.

A colleague of ours arrived today from New York. 21 hours flying, and she came straight to the office because her hotel wouldn't let her check in. Get a better hotel, we said. We've now worked with her on three continents. When you consider that we work in an industry that exists to provide effective cheap long-distant communication, this is a bit of a worry.

Investigated the Australian mobile phone market a bit. Dropped into a couple of shops at lunchtime. All much the same. I did some research on coverage. Basically, it's excellent in Melbourne, and drops off rapidly as you leave for more rural areas.

Also, we did some rootling around on the web for yacht clubs. PMYC is going to get a closer look this weekend. They sail Lasers off the beach in Port Philip Bay. This is reckoned by some to be the finest dinghy sailing in the world. Port Philip Bay is about 20Km across. The sea water temperature in summer is 20C, the sea breeze gives around 15Kts and the sharks only rarely eat people.

Some pictures of our Enormous Adventures are going to be appearing over the next few days. I may even put some up here.

We are both delighted with the outstanding performance of Team Hobbyhorse in the regatta yesterday, and wish them well today. Looking forward to pictures of the hound Cholmondeley (well, I am anyway. Others may not be).

Wine: Cartwheel 2004 Semillon/Sav Blanc from Western Australia. Fiery, peppery, nettles, elderflower. Pretty damn good.

Gym: Exercise bike: 30 minutes, average power output 140 watts. Average cadence 104rpm. So I was allowed some beer.

There's a microbrewery pub 200 metres from the apartment. They have about six home brewed beers. They're all excellent. The Amber Ale is a lovely malt-powered delight. The IPA is more hop-driven and drinks like a lighter English beer. think of Exmoor ale served cold. The Golden Ale is slightly malty, and has powerful sweet honey tones that appeal to Those Who Drink Beer in Sensible Amounts. The beer measures here still confuse me. They have the familiar pint (which isn't actually a pint, I suspect), the smaller middie and the pot. A pot is a glass of about 250ml, and suits Those Who Put Quality Before Volume.

I'm expecting little to happen tomorrow, too, so I may have to start telling outrageous lies. In the meantime, Go Team HobbyHorse!