Howzat

We decided to go out for M's birthday after all, and seeing as Dad, Lorna and Allen are still here we took advantage of the in-house babysitting and went to the The Departed. Lots of fun, especially Mark Wahlberg's foul-mouthed and unprovoked tirades.

Another long weekend, starting with a trip up to Avoca. How nice it is to go to the seaside and hole up indoors all day thanks to the searing (mid-30s) heat outside. Better than going to the beach with all that wretched sand, anyway.

We headed back to Sydney for a half-day of watching cricket at North Sydney Oval - rain didn't stop play, but it was heavy enough to send us scurrying home. We made up for it by doing a tour of Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. It's so naff, but walking down the player's balcony and over th rope onto the pitch gave me a certain juvenile thrill. I thought of the exchange from the movie of Fever Pitch:

"I could've made it if it wasn't for the fags."
"It wasn't the fags, was it? It was the crapness."

ps Apologies for lack of photos and functioning links. Blogger Beta is still a bit of a nightmare. Can we go back now?

pps Librarian readers can look at a write-up of a talk I went to on libraries vs Google at http://librariesinteract.info/2006/10/13/web-20-and-library-20-%e2%80%93-competing-in-a-google-world/