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Just surfing the ole YouTube and always come across some YouTube recommendations. I thought I would start this post and then use the Comments field to post regular finds as I come across them, often it is hard to find links and it is great to get condensed favourite lists. Feel free to post your own recommendations:

A group of us went up to Falls Creek on Thursday through till last night. We stayed at the Alpha Lodge which was community style lodge with shared kitchen/bathroom facilities. The lodge was very well equiped (somewhat almost too well stocked, which about 5 of everything, from electric frying pans to toasters) and the people were really cool, playing poker and drinking.
The snow was also very good, but not much of the mountain was open. No ice sections, but perfect blue skies all 3 days of snowboarding. Of what was open there was great covering, (about 73+cm average man made depth). It included runs like Highway 83, Main Street, Ruined Castle and Scotty’s. It gave a good opportunity to go back to some green runs as well to muck around with ollies/180’s trying to improve technique.

Will hopefully upload some photos in the next 24′ish hours once that I can get them off the camera.

I’m off to the US for 2 weeks as of this Saturday. The plan is to spend 4 days in Las Vegas partying up with mates then onto Colorado for some action-packed fun - rock climbing, white water rafting and down hill mt bike riding . Eventually we’ll end up in Minnesota sometime next week for a wedding.  Can’t wait. See you guys in 2 weeks time!

I am working on a new temporary template that will do us for a while until we can get a nice one designed up. I will hopefully have made more progress later tonight. As we are parsing more than 150 posts we have to get past the standard “classic” template that we have been trying to get away with for some months. Instead I have tried to fix the typography of the site which was starting to get very confusing.

For now there will be no colours, just typography and layout. Thoughts would be appreciated.

I’m not a Holden kinda guy but finally I think they have something I might be interested in. Drive.com.au get the first road test of the all new 270kw 6 Litre V8 Commodore VE SS-V.  Better take your cheque books to the bowser  boys! Read more about the road test here

Source: drive.com.au

I purchased an upgrade for Flickr tonight which enables me to post gigs of photos online to the service. As a result I will be uploading a lot of our old photography.

Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoecameron/ to see our photos.

I am looking through bringing some enterprise development patterns/practices across to ActionScript and I found an interesting SWF:

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/asunit/trunk/comm/marketing/trailer/fla/AsUnit-TechnicalMerit-Trailer.swf

On the Macromedia website there is some good documentation for interacting with FlashRemoting services and receiving a Record Set. The RecordSet is a data structure that typically represents a 2D structure with items and properties, which you can read about working with the RecordSet at this page:

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flashremoting/mx/Using_Flash_Remoting_MX/UseASData6.htm#1170158

“…But no other subject, not politics, sports, business, or technology, was more important to the bloggers polled than “my life and experiences.” No, other topics were not even close. About 76% claim their personal experiences as A reason, if not THE reason to blog.

Here’s the breakdown:

37%: my life and experiences

11%: politics

7%: entertainment

6%: sports

5%: news

4%: technology

2%: religion and spirituality

“Some observers have suggested that blogging is nothing more than the next step in a burgeoning culture of narcissism and exhibitionism spurred by reality TV and other elements of the modern media environment,” write Senior Research Specialist Amanda Lenhart and Associate Director Susannah Fox.

I was recommended flickr.com by a photographer working at teds this morning as a place to place up my photos online. The service is run by Yahoo and contains hundreds of thousands of photos and members. The service is free to upload 20mb worth of photos a month (not a year, meaning next month you can upload another 20mb) which is enough string to determine if you will continue to use the service by playing with it for a few months. You can happily continue with the 20mb a year, or for AUD$60 for 2 years you can upload 2GB worth of photos online a month.

I have placed up a few of my photos I took on Saturday trying to experiment with the Camera, you can view the photos under my account:

View the photos here