DjMagra’s stuff ‘n’ stuff

Wow, this is pretty awesome news!! Google Australia have just announced that they are after launcing Street Views for lots of locations around Australia. I’ve just had a quick peek on Google Maps and I can see that they have covered the area around our apartment in Brisbane quite well, and I can’t wait to get home tonight and try this out in Google Earth on the mac. This is really, really exciting news though, especially as I should now be able to put together some mashups to show family and friends back home various places that I am day to day around Brisbane.

Oh man, I’ve waited for this weekend to come for a long time. The last 2 months in work have been completely hectic. Anyone who knows me knows that I am well used to exceptionally long hours and hard work, but I think that I can safely say that the last 2 months have been amongst the most hectic that I have ever worked.

Added to that, the last two weeks have just been frought with various unexpected problems that have cropped up on a number of our systems, and it seems like every time I fix one problem, another has been croppign up.

I don’t have anything special lined up for this weekend, but, I really can’t wait to get it out of here and just kick back and not think about work (other than for about an hour when I have to apply some server patches) for an entire weekend. That is until my alarm rings at 430 on Monday morning and I have to catch a red-eye to Sydney for a few days down there!