Saturday, October 28, 2006

Does Anyone Actually Read this Stuff?

Just a thought.... does anyone actually read this Blog or is it a self indulgent waste of time? Leave a comment.

Photos on the Net

I've recently discovered a couple of nifty services (all free) which allow you to publish your photos on the net. If you click on the Tabblo ... that's the image with all the photo thumbnails below ... you'll see what I mean.

That display was done with Tabblo and is pretty neat. It allows you to post photos and text so you can virtually publish a book online for all your friends to see. Great for showing your latest photos of trips, engagements, weddings ... Hey, don't we have some of those coming up soon? Anyway you can check out what Tabblo has to offer at http://www.tabblo.com/studio

The other online photo publishing service I've used is Picasa's Web Album. You'll need to get the free Picasa first from Google and trust me, for a free program it's pretty neat. I'm using it to catalogue and manage all my photos now and it's even got a neat photo fix option. You can get Picasa at http://picasa.google.com

Then there's Flickr which is Yahoo's online photo publishing site. Not bad but I reckon Picasa Web Album does just fine. You can check out each of them with my photos and decide for yourself which suits....

My Tabblos ... Click on the Tabblo image over there on the right to see all my Tabblos.

My Picasa Web Albums ...

http://picasaweb.google.com/snowy.whiteman?pli=1

Have fun folks...!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

A Rose Amongst the Thorns



Tabblo: Nan Tien Monastery

These photos were taken on a recent trip we made to the South Coast of NSW.
We visited the Nan Tien Buddhist Monastery at Berkley near Wollongong
and it is hard to believe that such a serene and peaceful place exists
amongst the dour and dismal industrial landscape which  surrounds
the area.
... See my Tabblo>


Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The Search for the Perfect Laksa


Anyone who has been around me for more than a few years will know that I have a special eating place down in Chinatown where they serve the absolute best Laksa in the known universe (and probably a few unknown ones as well!). I used to go there with poor old Gazza who has since gone to the Internet Chat Room in the sky, and Paul, who has gone to Tamworth. There must be a link there somewhere?

Don't know what Laksa is? Click Here



Ever since I tasted this Asian delight about 15 years ago I've been looking for the perfect Laksa and that obviously requires a rigorous testing process. Over the years I've tried and tasted Laksas from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur and from Brisbane to Calcutta.

And just today I went to De Laksa in Parramatta where, according to Matthew Evans the SMH Food Critic, they supposedly have the best Laksa in Sydney, but sorry to say, the Prawn Laksa was a big disappointment. Now this place is supposedly run by Mary who is from Singapore and I'd expect something pretty good from an expat Mallaca chef but, compared to the fragrant bowl of heavenly Seafood Laksa cooked up by the Phnom Penh Teo Chew Noodle House down in the Dixon Food Court off Little Hay Street, it was little more than an insipid bowl of slop.

If you don't live in Sydney or don't intend coming here very soon then you are out of luck... you are missing one of life great pleasures.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

This Time Last Week

This time last week, I'd been back home just over a week. Although work started almost immediately it took me a day or two to get back into the swing of things but soon enough it was as though I'd never been away.

It's amazing how quickly the time passes and even now, it seems incredible that I was away for a couple of days short of a month.

It's all there in the InjaorBust blog and I am waiting for Ian to finish his course so he can update it with his adventures.