Friday sunrise at Snapper Rocks
Corporate headshots don’t have to look like you were just dragged in front of a photographer to get a photo for the website.
Created for Lightning Broadband.
One story out of many on how the Sydney Covid lockdown currently ending has cost me so much money
On the first day of the Sydney lockdown that’s currently ending, I had a wedding booked in the Blue Mountains. I was driving down (flights had been cancelled twice) at the time the lockdown was announced and I told the couple I couldn’t attend their wedding because:
- The couple lived in one of the four local government area’s that had been ordered to stay at home, the NSW Premier said at the time “if you live or work in those four local government areas you should not leave your home unless you have to.”
- Sydney was entering a pretty severe lockdown and weddings were banned, there was literally four reasons given to leave the house. Weddings were allowed “for compassionate reasons” on the day they were married and I didn’t think that an elopement with no guests for a local couple who hadn’t communicated any compassionate reasons was more important than public safety.
- I would need to quarantine on arrival back to Queensland for two weeks afterward which is super fun for work and leave me making a financial loss on the wedding.
I offered to freely postpone to a time when they were allowed to marry, and if I couldn’t be there, I’d hire a celebrant in my place.
They rejected that offer and found a celebrant and photographer who would flout the stay at home orders.
Today a NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal member issued them a full refund because I told them I couldn’t come, instead of just leaving them high and dry and not turning up, because then it would have then been a force majeure event.
So just in case you were curious, lockdowns mean nothing to consumer action, law is an ever flexible and changing ball of goo, the wedding industry really is not going well after two years of this, and apparently I now it’s my job to report a couple to NSW Police for breaching stay at home orders.
Covid sucks. Covid has almost completely killed my passion for weddings.
Zuckerberg chose Meta over Oasis?! That’s $100 to the bookies I’ll never get back.
Dreading the day that I see in VR a friend commit real-life suicide in the middle of a metaverse flame-war because they’re antivax or think pineapple on pizza is important.
It’s super cute when people talk about national debt like it’s not a completely made up concept, not a scientific force of nature like gravity.
Sunrise elopement at The Calile Hotel this morning
Sorry sir, I am all out of way
It’s hot, damn hot. If you’re getting married when it’s hot: 1) Bring cold water, so much flipping water, 2) Get married as late in the day as your venue and photographer will let you, 3) find the shade, for the love of god put us in the shade.
All of my Apple devices are upgraded and now there’s a openthread.thread.home.arpa on my network. Nest Smoke Alarms, or HomePod Minis?
FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8. 20 years of Windows XP #neverforget
Monday afternoon in Burleigh Heads
Luna’s birthday week comes to a close. Now we have 51 weeks of mourning until her fourth birthday celebrations can begin.
When Apple started using the phrase “there’s an app for that” in 2009, they were definitely not thinking of an app that simulates a cat purring on your lap being released today.
Uh, oh, watch out petrol cars, the Chief Health Officer is coming for ya!
Two iPods are some of my favourite computers of all time
These two computers are two of my favourite Apple computers. The iMac G4, the white Intel MacBook, and my current Apple Silicon MacBook Air are up there as well, but these two were the first computers I fell in love with.
The first, the iPod Shuffle. A computer without a screen with seven buttons and two ports. 512MB of my favourite songs shuffled. I have vivid memories of walking to work with this wonder of a computer.
The second, the iPhone I bought when I couldn’t buy an iPhone, the iPod Touch, released in Australia while the iPhone was USA only.
Happy 20th birthday, iPod, you’ve run a good race.
Panic’s Cabel Sasser shares a prototype original iPod on the iPod’s 20th birthday.
Steve Jobs’s resume:
“I’m looking for a fixer-upper with a solid foundation. Am willing to tear down walls, build bridges, and light fires. I have great experience, lots of energy, a bit of that ‘vision thing’ and I’m not afraid to start from the beginning.”
My Kindle Oasis is starting to get a bit long in the tooth, almost four years old and it’s battery barely lasts a day or two.
Is there a new Oasis on the cards or do I just replace it, considering the battery is non-replaceable?
“I’ve long thought that the destruction of time in which to think – and do nothing else – is a much more massive problem than anyone cares to think about, nor has time to.”
M.G. Siegler in his email today, and then links to his 2015 piece: The Death of Thought.