It was incredibly weird weather in Geelong today, insanely windy which kicked up a lot of dust. I had to drive out to the sticks for work and it was indeed an interesting drive.

Just on the road to Ceres looking towards Fyansford. Landscape caked in dust.

This was a weird column of dust crossing the road. I could barely see anything driving through that.

Of course, it rained during the Dust storm caking everything in dust, including my poor car

Just found a nice Facebook app that let’s me update my Facebook status via Twitter Tweets. I like that!

I’ve been reading all this hype about twitter, didn’t really have any idea what it was. As far as I can tell after signing up it’s pretty much just like the facebook status updates, but open to the public, which is kinda cool. The main thing that I like about it is updating your status with a simple text message, and it doesn’t charge you any extra for it, standard text message rates. It integrates really well into Wordpress, I’ve got my twitter status updates (or tweets, as they’re called) on my sidebar now. I can also setup twitter to work as a direct blog post, which, I’m not real keen on. I don’t really understand the hype at this point, being that it’s such a basic service.Β  Links below.

Twitter, Twitter Tools WP PluginΒ 

So, as per an earlier post, I broke the LCD panel of my beloved Macbook. At the time I was thinking, way too expensivc to replace, just buy a new Macbook. But a couple of factors have come to play since then. For one, I didn’t want my next Mac to be a Macbook, I wanted a Macbook Pro, and 2, I found a place called Macfixit Australia, who sell LCD panels for DIY install for AU$379, which is damn cheap, you can get them to install it for you for $179, but that (however small) extra fee just makes me think I might as well go buy a new one for $1449. There’s an awesome guide at ifixit.com which has a 23 page guide in replacing the panel, which is quite involved, but me and a mate were thinking we could do it, so long as we follow every single step. The only tools I need is a screwdriver, a spudger and a beer to cool my nerves. And hopefully the DIY gods smile down on me.

I linked to an earlier vid of this robot a year or so back and it flipped me out then, but this new video, just makes me feel eerie, it truly scares me.

The bit where it slips on the ice, and the bit where it’s jumping, is just absolutely amazing, there has not been a robot that has looked more real to me.