Archive for the 'Melbourne' Category

Water…

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

As Melburnians are getting ready for stage three water restrictions, I shall review the impact of drought:

Food prices increase.

Water shortages mean that I therefore cannot have long showers. (I used to have 20 minute long showers 5-6 years ago, now shortened to 5 minutes).

I cannot wash my car with a hose

I cannot enjoy […]

The drought, the fire

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Victoria is suffering from severe water shortages already, with diminishing water supplies. Now it is even worse with hot and dry conditions, with fire threatening the eastern regions. With strong winds and dry conditions, particles from bushfires are spreading over Melbourne. When I was at Richmond station today, I saw a thick […]

EGames Expo

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

I had the best time today at the egames expo in the exhibition centre today. I tried the newest Nintendo Wii console that will be released on 7th December, racing games on XBox 360, some Nintendo DS games and the oldest Street Fighter Games from the 90s that were out on display. The […]

The G20 Protest:

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

I was at the city today and took the chance to see some of the rallying at Swanston Street:

Luckily, I didn’t encounter any of the urine bombs.
Things like this keeps me thinking about politics and reminds me about the Victorian elections coming up on the 25th November.

Maps, maps and maps

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

These are some really great and fun map projects on the net:
Wikimapia - it’s great, but most of the things I wanted to add are added already. But I did contribute to some places in both HK and in Melbourne. It works perfectly on Camino, but not on Safari. There are some security […]