Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House

Here is a little history from the iconic landmarks in the harbour….straight from my mate Tim.

 

 

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Chris

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Driving To Retro in Australia

Here is my first ride in a car with another american who has a little more experience driving on the other side of the road.  Jay got us there in one piece as we listened to retro music (quite popular in Australia) from a local retro band.

 

 

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The Bats of Sydney

First, if you want to see the scoop on night one of Encounterfest at Hillsong Church in Australia…go to my www.revelife.com/lyfebytz blog.  Second, if you want to see what bats look like flying over the famous Sydney harbor bridge, check this out

 

 

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Chris

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Most viewed Australian YouTube Video

Here it is, actually the top 6 are music videos, and the top of all types is Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Loose A Thing,” go figure.  They love cat humor down here

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Chris

Breakfast of champions

One thing I’ve learned on my international travel over the years is, pretty much every country (with some exceptions in Asia) coffee is better. I’m talking about your evryday coffee, not any special order stuff from that unpopular Starbucks joint.

You can order a cup of coffee at any establishment and get far beyond what a Foldgers cup can deliver. This morning my friend is this cup, called a flat white to the locals.

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Chris

Don’t Mess With The Budgies

Budgies can be smuggled in all shapes and places…a native small bird and Australian slang :-0  And Jay King was the brave one to take a picture next to him…

Chrome, Cloud Computing, and The New Era

I love the speed at which we are entering the new computing eras as much as I love the new ground.  Amazing things happen when you take creativity, innovation, and a large force of engineering minds….enter in Google.

With the impeding release of the new browser code named “Chrome,” along with the Google phone that will roll out this month…the pieces are falling in place for totally new web experience that moves through the “cloud computing” to your phone.  Seamless integration, here we come.

With the Chrome browser you will be able to drab web page with an app into a new tab.  At which point the address bar and navigation will disappear and you virtually have a desktop app.  

Google will take the same open source approach they have with web apps to the browser.  With their mobile apps platform in place, then the only ingredient missing is the  computing box….do I foresee the last frontier in Google’s cross-hairs.  My prediction is no, because they’re after the one device that everyone has all the time…their cell.  And with a robust offering of apps and browser compatibility that connects/functions seamless on your own desktop….why would they need to get in the box business too?

Two major landmark advancements for Chrome.  First, speed, speed, speed.  They took a team of engineers in Europe and set the goal to have a browser perform java script functions 10 times faster than any browser…in 4 months.  After non-stop 12 hour coding days, the team came back with not only the goal met…but, a browser that outperformed Explorer at a rate of 56% faster.  Yes, let the browser wars begin…again.

Second, reliability.  How many times have you let out a sigh, or perhaps a colorful adjective in the four letter range as your browser froze, then died?  Either a force quite or a restart was necessary, minutes later you are re-booted and not happy.   

Chrome will take that all away, by allowing the tabbed browsers to act independently.  If one is locked, feel free to keep browsing on the other tabs while Chrome tries to figure it out.  If it doesn’t, simply close that tab.   Ahhhhh, finally something in my life I don’t have to reboot.

Apple has gone to the new frontiers with mobile apps, new cool phone, and cloud computing (MobileMe).  Google is quickly on their heels, with open source all around.  May the best company prevail, in the meantime as consumers we reap the benefit of good competition and great open source community who will deliver better tweaks on code so we are all happy!

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Chris

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