Track of the Day: Architecture in Helsinki - Debbie

Currently loving the hell out of this slightly unhinged track from Architecture in Helsinki’s last album:

Architecture in Helsinki - Debbie from helsinkids on Vimeo.

Lots of fun.

iPhone in AU on Virgin Mobile

I’ve been on Virgin Mobile AU for over a year now. I got in when they were doing their hugely cool 1GB for $10/month data plan, which they subsequently knocked down to 300MB when they realised that people were actually going to use up that data.

Virgin’s mobile internet service around AU is pretty damn good. I used it for my year of touring, and could get coverage in some surprisingly remote towns. I had to do a little bit of geeking to get the phone working as a bluetooth modem with my Macs, but once setup it’s all extremely smooth. The only problem I’ve found is that sometimes the computer connection will crash, and then be unable to connect until I restart the machine. Despite the dire predictions about $15000/GB for over usage, I never even got close to my 1GB cap, and Virgin now have a usage monitoring page on their site, so that’s not much of a worry anymore.

Now, the iPhone is out in AU, early adopters have bought ridiculously expensive ones, even though 99% of them don’t really understand what the thing does. I’ve been thinking of picking one up eventually and probably having to jailbreak it to get working on Virgin. Turns out that’s not the case.

$70/month for 24 months. 1GB data. Usual Virgin awesomeness with free Virgin to Virgin calls etc. and you can upgrade to 5GB/month for an extra $30. Fantastic stuff. I haven’t been on a mobile contract for quite a while now… This almost looks like something which could take me back into the fold.

Not on holiday in India any more

Just in case you hadn’t realised, I’m back in AU, well and truly not on holiday. Working extremely hard on various projects. CDM, O2K, and I’m also running a series of stop-motion animation workshops at the Queensland Library over the school holidays.

I have updated my site template though, and migrated it to our Australian servers. Happy times.

Bad ISPs in Australia

A list of which ISPs in AU filter Bittorrent traffic - via Lifehacker

STOP PRESS: Pixie dust unsuitable for household lighting

STOP PRESS: Pixie dust unsuitable for household lighting - Dan looks at the physics of why an award winning “green” lighting solution would never work.

On Holiday in India

I’m currently on holiday in India with the Rachgirl. Not much internet, but I’ve uploaded a couple of days worth of photos to Flickr, and am updating Twitter semi-regularly via SMS.

Google movie session time search

Google adds movie time search function | Lifehacker Australia

Our enemy has no intellectual capital to bring to the battle

Interesting interview with the Swedish Pirate Party - “Our enemy has no intellectual capital to bring to the battle”

Dresden Dolls with Trash McSweeny of The Red Paintings - Mad World

Dresden Dolls + The Red Paintings - Mad World. An incredibly powerful performance, I’ve been listening to it on repeat while I rearrange my studio.

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