A few tidbits

October 5, 2004

A couple of things that have caught my interest of the last few days:

The XPrize for the first step towards commercially-viable space travel has been won. I think it was always going to be these guys that won it, all we have to do now is wait for Richard Branson, Dick Smith, Crazy John et al to pay for their ticket and take off.

Alan Keyes says in an interview that Dick Cheney’s daughter is a “selfish hedonist“. A Family First party staffer says that lesbians should be burned (can’t find the link, but I don’t think I’m making it up. edit – found it!). Am I sensing a theme here or what? Why are people like this allowed to be involved in something as important as politics? In fact, why weren’t they allowed to play in traffic as kids? Renew America? God help us.

I finally started listening to the Daily Source Code from Adam Curry. I haven’t got the connection at home to really try out iPodder yet, but after listening to the stream at work, I wish I did as it would be good to listen to on the train into work in the mornings.

A new Mortal Kombat is out, but only on PS2 and XBox. Damn. Meanwhile, Half Life 2 looks like it could be heading for another delay. Surely Vivendi and Valve knows that the best thing to do would be to just put it out on the market and start making money off it, then settle the legal disputes. Talking of delays, Duke Nukem Forever has had an engine picked for it. After what, six years? I think a 2042 release date may not be out of the question.

Daniel got booted off Idol on Monday. No great disappointment there, but I was sure it would have been either Marty or Hailey this week. There’s always next week, I suppose. Anthony’s song on Sunday was just unbelievable, and Ricki-Lee did an awesome job too. The Spin Starts Here had a few choice comments to make on Sunday night, though.

I found one of my philosophy lecturers/tutors from Uni, M@ Carter, is keeping a blog and a website. This is pretty cool, as his was easily the best course I did over the four years I was at Uni.

The Bulldogs won the NRL Grand Final. Don’t really care all that much, but I was going to watch the final until I realized Idol was on at the same time. There went that plan!

That’ll probably do for tonight.

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