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Tuesday, November 22, 2005
More travel stuff.
I thought I'd take a moment to share a few more images with you (and even a video). These may not be in order, as I'm sorting through a couple of discs here and a few are still on the camera's internal memory. Anyway, here we go.
Fox Studios: Channel V
This is a picture of part of the front entrance to Channel V, over at Fox Studios Australia. I am guessing that only a few of you will be familiar with Channel V, as they are an Australia-only music channel I believe. The area just under the big sign is where they've had various major artists perform for crowds on their main request show - everyone from Blink 182 to Silverchair has performed there in the past. Unfortunately we were there early in the week and there wasn't much activity going on, although they were taping something inside there.
Fox Studios: Sound Stage
This is the primary sound stage at Fox Studios, although I believe there are a couple more somewhere in that complex. Fox Studios has a fairly heavy filming schedule and a variety of films were made here, including the three Matrix films and much of the three Star Wars prequels.
Coffs Harbour
We stayed in this town on the way to the Gold Coast. Coffs Harbour is roughly halfway between Sydney and the Gold Coast (it's about five hours' drive from each spot, basically). Very, very pretty area. And the hotel was amazing. I actually wish I had taken more photos. This one is a bit odd, because I took it from inside the car.
The Big Banana
You know you are heading towards Queensland when you start coming across ridiculously tacky buildings like this one, haha. It's kind of fun though. I didn't go inside, but I can only assume there are a ton of interesting banana-related exhibits in there. And please, no jokes about Australia having the biggest banana...
Gold Coast
This shot isn't so good because the day was quite overcast, but this is the southern end of the Gold Coast. In the distance you can see Coolangatta. That is basically one side of a crescent-shaped part of the coastline, with the other side featuring Surfer's Paradise.
Gold Coast
This is in the exact same spot, but facing left rather than right. Again, because it's overcast you can't really see it so well...but in the very distance is Surfer's Paradise.
The interesting thing is how physically large that stretch of beach is. It goes from where I was standing, all the way down past Coolangatta. And it goes well past Surfer's Paradise to the north. So what you're seeing in both pictures is a tiny percentage of the total size of the beach. It's pretty incredible to think about the scale of it.
Unfortunately all the pictures from Canberra are not on here. I think my sister has them. So I'm going to have to get them from her to show you. But for now, I'll share a short video with you.
Virgin Blue 737 flies over my head (although it was closer than the camera makes it appear - the zoom wasn't quite right).
Mimmi-chan: How could I not remember? Hehe. I will try to make it happen!
Alan: Only thing is, I'm now using the myO default system to play the file. So it should work; it used to work for me when I used to do it. I am not sure what's changed.
Hopefully the site will not be too difficult, I think it will share a lot of similarities with some of the systems we have going here. Although obviously the focus and design will be very different.
Kei-chan: Hm, I may have to rent it or something. Only problem is, no local place seems to stock it for rent. Blah!
John: Yeah, I'm keeping it nice and simple. Primary colours with black and white. I imagine that the site will primarily be text-based, with a few status icons and so on.
CosmicSailor: Ah well, I guess it's just something you have to work on. But it's good that you acknowledge it. ^_^
Desbreakfast: Ah, cool. I wish it would work for me, I don't know why it won't. My browser is the same version as I was using when I was running it before, so everything should be right. Who knows. Hopefully it can be sorted out.
I am hopeful that I'll be able to share progress updates on Nintendo GameLink as time goes by. I'd like to have it running by early next year. The domain has already been registered, so we're on the way.
SunfallE: Aw, even your DS was taken? Geeze. Good luck with everything. I'll be sending positive vibes your way. ^_^
indifference: No worries, thanks for commenting! I'll ask Justin and see what he says about the whole music thing. I may end up finding another way to put it on here that I'm happy with, anyway.
Good luck with the homework, too.
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