jfin is here…

This has gotta be annoying… typo takes tourist 13,000km out.

A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Ouch.

Ahhh, sweet sweet Friday. Have a happy New Year, y’all.

Listening to : Michael Spencer - Internet Monk (podcast)

(He also has a blog .. often covers interesting content. Thought-provoking recent post on Christian consumerism here.)

.. I was supposed to be sitting at home eating leftover ham and playing with new toys or relaxing at the beach or something.

Had a good week before Christmas up in Tahoe (photos here) with Rob, Art, Monty and others. A few days of hard-and-fast, with one nice 8″ bluebird pow day in the middle to mix it up a bit. Just enough to hide the rocks .. fun riding through the trees, once the board-damage angst was overcome.

Christmas day was spent with Rob, opening presents and then traveling back to San Jose from Tahoe, via a few touristy things in San Francisco. Christmas dinner was cioppino down at Fishermans Wharf. Don’t think I’ll ever do a Christmas quite like that again. :)

Two more days of work then up to Seattle for New Years on Friday evening. Excellent…

Listening to : Mae - All Deliberate Speed

Got back to San Jose late last night (after a six hour delay at Seattle airport, sigh) and sorted through the mail that has accumulated for me in the 6 weeks that I’ve been away. A few real letters (and wedding invitations!) but the highlight was definitely the fourteen - yes, fourteen - different credit card offers.  Wow.

Spent this morning reorganising my life and then got in the car and drove to Tahoe.  Cold, but dry .. not much snow here yet.  Oh well, should still be a nice relaxing week.

Listening to : The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

Two of my favorite NZ news sites .. www.stuff.co.nz and www.nzherald.co.nz .. have gone all stupid and Web2.0-curvy-pastel-tabbed-alicious. Yuck.

Bring back the old square designs, I say (and bring back Buck while you’re at it). Ninety degrees has got more steez. Less is more (I realise this is an odd one to quote, given how keen certain proponents of Web2.0 are on it .. but they’re talking about web applications, not news “portals”). Show me what I need to know, when and where I need to know it. All that jazz.

Ah well, back to news.google.co.nz it is.

What kind of crack was this guy smoking?

Woah! MySpace members have more secure passwords than your standard corporate flunky. Maybe that place ain’t so bad after all.