Category: daveg@dorja

Apparently its “David” written in Chinese.

One of these days I swear I’m going to learn some Cantonese so I can understand my Great Uncle who always talks to me in Cantonese (he speaks about as much English as I do Cantonese). Recently he said to Rozie “can he speak Cantonese?” C’mon, couldn’t he figure it out from the fact that I never manage to say anything back and that Rozie always has to translate for me. Although sometimes she forgets and she just lets everyone talk Cantonese at me, all the while I just umm and ahh like a moron. Thanks honey! 😛

So my Outer Rim server is moving locations/IP address. So if your trying to get to Bec’s, Joanne’s or perhaps Melody’s blogs, Rozie’s photos and some other sites that I host at the moment, you might get re-directed to Planet Grep. Sorry about that. I messed up some DNS records. Once the corrected DNS records get propagated you’ll be able to get to them again. Apparently this new server is quicker than the previous one (its seems to be a little bit quicker).

I’ve also moved the URL of my blog to http://daveg.outer-rim.org/. Its still accessable from the Dorja for the forseeable future, so no need to go changing those bookmarks yet. I just hope the change in URL doesn’t effect the Google-love this blog seems to currently enjoy.

It is of grave concern to me that I’ve noticed that its becoming quite difficult to track down packets of Chilli Kettle Chips. I can find the much lamer Sweet Chilli variety and also the many other varieties, but I can only seem to find the Chilli ones in the cafeteria at my work. I hope it just means that they’re popular and not that they’re getting phased out… 🙁

Finally got around to upgrading WordPress to the 1.5.x series. Now I’ve got blacklisting for comment spam. As much fun as its been Mr Online Poker and Mr Loans, your time is up. I’ll get round to fixing up a nicer theme, but for the time being I’m just using one I found over at Alex King’s site.

Melbourne was great. Its been quite a while since I’ve been down and I’d kinda forgotten how much I like the place.

Rozie and I checked out the Andy Warhol Time Capsules exhibition at the NGV. We enjoyed it since Rozie and I are hoarders as well. Probably about 100 or so archive boxes worth of Andy Warhol’s stuff. Photos, letters, newspapers, clothes, shoes, book, records, whatever. Just stuff he’d collected over the years up until he died in 87. Some things didn’t interest me that much, be it was great seeing photos of old celebrites, record covers, letters from people asking for autographed photos or perhaps requesting Andy to put on a show at their gallery or perhaps submit some work.

We also down to the Australian Center for the Moving Image in Federation Square. Some damn fine visual experiments being projected around the screen room that have on the bottom floor the of the center. This guy here had this crazy three screen time slicing bizness. Awesome.

We of course did some shopping on Chapel and Greville. Dakota 501 had all 35 35th anniversary Adidas Superstars in the window of their shop. Photos coming soon of that. No. 35 from the collection and the case that goes with it is awesome!

Weather was nice, food was great with Saigon Rose for dinner (Vietnamese) and Borsch, Vodka and Tears (Polish I think) being great for an afternoon snack. Coffee wasn’t as good in Melbourne though as it is in Sydney. Go figure :-\

And since Rozie loves fish, we went to the aquarium was which fun as well. There was some people scuba diving in the main tank of the aquarium when we were there as well.

Picked up a couple of records from Rhythm and Soul, Collectors Corner and Greville Records. Mainly picked up stuff that I hadn’t got in the past:

• Moodymann – The thief that stole my sad days / Ya blessin’ me
• Moodymann – Don’t Be Misled!
• Moodymann – Joy Pt. II
• Basscheck 1980-2005 – compiled by Slope
• Titonton Duvante – Voyeurism
• Midnight Star – Midas Touch
• Herbie Hancock – Headhunters
• Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes – All Their Greatest Hits

The Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes compilation features “The Love I Lost” which Theo Parrish edited to devastating effect on Ugly Edits Vol.2. An awesome 70’s soul/funk number if there ever was. Had to get a copy of Headhunters on vinyl just for the second part of “Chameleon”, which is probably my favourite Hancock song. All the Moodyman records were part of all the represses of the KDJ back catalogue which has been going on recently(ish). I’ve never really bought many KDJ records in the past, so it was great to catch on some missed moments.

I would like to see a resurgence of the word “rad”.

That is all.

There’s this gorgeous little cat that’s been hanging around our house for almost a week now named Holly. She’s only got three legs, but is extremely friendly. The last couple of days that I’ve come home from work, she’s been waiting next to the kitchen door for me. I’m not quite sure what I’ve done to deserve all this attention from her, but since she’s such a nice cat, I don’t really mind. It does worry me though as to why she’s been hanging out so much. I know where she lives. Her collar has been taken off and then put back on again in the last week, so somebody must be taking care of her. But in the evening won’t go home. She just stands at the kitchen door, meowing until I let her in. I drove past the owners house tonight and it looked like there’s noone home at the moment, so perhaps she’s just lonely and wanting some attention.