new plans, new commitments, ... new blog!

This morning while I was having my aussie breakfast in Lygon and I was looking around at all those cafés and restaurant in the street I've come up with this really challenging idea.... why not keeping a record about all the places I went to eat in Melbourne? I said, then... why not? and now I just started this new plan and here's the blog. I just have two entries so far 'cuz my budget is not huge but I will try to feed it (and me) as most as possible.
... keep you all the fingers crossed.

the never ending summer

This weekend I went to the beach... summer is now finished since three weeks but it does not really seems like so... yesterday we had a maximum temperature of about 39°C, the same as the the day before, and the whole weekend has been pretty hot even if a little bit windy.
Things seems to get cooler for this week and we'll reach 20°C on friday, then maybe Easter should be the last weekend to spend at the beach swimming.... We got 5 days of holiday and a good BBQ followed by the beach would very very nice.....
..... ah.. I'm loving this place.

That's the aussie way to start the day.....

We'll finally I made it..... I got my first Australian breakfast... last weekends I was too lazy to get up in the morning and the day started always in the afternoon.... but this time... oh man... I did it! I really missed this breakfast eggs and bacon in the morning are pretty nice.. but all the days.
The bacon is normally thick and you can have different types of eggs:
- scrambled
- fried
- pouched (aka boiled)
just one last word.... if you have never tried this... don't get scared about the early hour and go for it.

The Dark Side of the Rainbow.....

... when Pink Fl0yd meet the Wizard of Oz...

Last week my flatmate Guillaume told me about the movie "Wizard of Oz" and about some rumors that the Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon were somehow connected... then some days later I got curious and went on YouTube.... 'cuz I was sure that if there was something about this thing I would have find it there.... and yeah! I was true... Here is the thing we're talking about

oh... that's awesome! it really seems that they made the album for it... the music goes completely in sync with the movie especially for the first four parts.... and the third one is simply amazing!... Even though I have to say that it looks a little bit weird and creepy watching the Wizard of Oz with that music....
... maybe this is the reason why I really like it!

....Settled..

Yeah... after some rushing days in which I had to set up my new life in OZ (accommodation, contract, medical insurance, buying stuff, bank, etc....) I am F I N A L L Y S E T T L E D !!.. I have found a nice house here ... which is... well definitely near to the university department where I'm working (a couple of blocks on left) and the center of the city the CBD (down in the map).

I have to say that I'm not new to this city them my setting up has been pretty quick.. but I confess I forgot some of the good attitudes and "traditions" maintained here at CSSE department.

One of the things I love here are... seminars along with buffets at the end... well not always, but if there is some important person who's giving the talk... the buffet is almost assured!

The open kitchen where people normally drop by to have a tea and read newspapers (gently provided by the department) is also one of the things I quickly got addicted.
Next week I will explore the other advantages of being part of the

University of Melbourne: the sport center. My plans are to enroll and start doing some gym and daily swimming... well... it is a very difficult proposal bu who knows... we'll see.

That's all for today... time to get back home... and have lunch.

Playing with Flickr....

[.... resumed post ... from a dismissed blog ....]

Wednesday, December 13, 20

Yesterday evening/night i was surfing on the flickr website 'cuz i was seeing the pictures of a friend of mine who randomly uploads pictures about parties, trips, etc... I have the flickr account since 18 months but I've not been using it so far.. Yesterday, just for fun I surfed around my profile and got into the pletora of services that flickr gives to the users... Oh that is incredible! I suddenly started to love it.. and keep almost all of the night uploading my last pictures..

Flickr is very nice it provides the general photo management stuff and additional services like tagging, geo-tagging, image sub-region information, etc... It can be easily integrated with blogging platforms like Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress and many others... You can easily create random photo slideshow and integrate it within other websites... (see on the right!!).

Well a lot of stuff... I love it and there is a great community around it.. then go ahead and start your flickr page! here's mine.