Adam’s House of Misc

So far I’m fairly impressed by WordPress’s organization. It seems to be pretty easy to put together all the old stuff and get the site up and running again.

And of course, this time around I’ll have better backups.

I managed to pretty much not post a single update during my time in Australia. Crazy. We’ll see if I can reverse this.

Also, we were hacked just as we arrived back from Australia, and it took me a few weeks to get around to putting things back together. I’m yet to recover the themes, but at least I’ve got the content back in place.

Well, I guess that’s not entirely true.  Anyway, while I felt like I was, a few months ago, about to usher in a whole new era of cranking out regular content, ranging from book reports to musings on my Australian adventure, that is yet to come.

I’ve been pretty busy with work.  And family.  And all kinds of other stuff.

Perhaps, one day, I shall have the time to sit in a coffee shop with a nice strong espresso and pour my deepest thoughts onto the Internet.  Perhaps I will, instead, pour some useful content onto the Internet, and some will like it.  In the meantime, I must work for the man.

This was breakfast this morning:

• 2 eggs “fried well done” (“over hard” if you’re in America)
• bacon (Australian Bacon: it’s like American Bacon and Canadian Bacon got together for a weekend in Vegas that they refuse to talk about)
• Sausage
• Sauteed Mushrooms
• Baked Beans
• Toast
• Grilled Tomato
• Hashbrown

Do you want to know the scary thing?  This is the typical “Big Brekkie” served at nearly any brekfast establishment here in Australia.  In fact, I could’ve ordered the “Extreme” version of this meal, which includes a lamb chop and, to satisfy the vegetarians out there, some additional sautee’d spinach to go with the mushrooms.

Anyway, while we’ve found many great breakfast places near our apartment in Balmain, I’d like to give a shout out to The Coffee Bean in Roselle, who is doing their best to make sure that I don’t lose weight, despite my walking commute.

I moved to Sydney four months ago, ostensibly to be the Site Test Lead and bring up a new team.  Nearly half the office has been involved in a secret and crazy project, and we’ve finally launched.

It’s pretty neat, and you can watch the Keynote Demo:

(pay particular attention to Athena’s picture that shows up in several slide show demos)

Anyway, it’s good to be out, although things are still crazy. The product is pretty neat, and we look forward to being able to make it available to everyone.