In June, Jean and I made our first trip to the Blue Mountains since our little hiking misadventure. Cousin Vicky invited us along for a weekend staying at a cottage in the Megalon valley with some friends and friends of friends. Check out the slideshow for a play by play of the weekend.

Vivid Sydney is a festival that features a wide of array of light installations and projections. The really cool thing is that the artists use the Sydney Opera house and other buildings in Circular Quay as their canvases. Jean and I spent an evening doing the rounds back in June as portrayed in our Deeds of Yore Weekend post. Here are some non-pixel pictures from our visit. Circular Quay across from the Museum of Modern Art Customs House Library. Check out the video below on full screen to see this one in action. Museum of Modern Art Opera House

After bemoaning Sydney's dearth of corn tortillas to a couple from our salsa class, they turned us on to Fireworks Food , a Mexican food importer based in western Sydney. I put an order in with them last Thursday and Friday afternoon I received 3 dozen fresh corn tortillas with a curious disclaimer (see below) and box of other goodies. It's like being at a Fiesta mart  

We've been on a bit of a hiatus from the blog lately so I though I'd just give a recap of last week as it was fairly typical as weeks go. On Sunday, I received a phone call from my good friend Bruce. He told me was going to be in town on Monday so we arranged to meet for drinks that evening.   Me and Bruce Jean wasn't able to meet up with me Bruce because she had mistakenly fallen through a rip in the space/time continuum at work and ending up hanging out with Michael Jackson and Grease era Olivia Newton-John instead. Smooth criminal Jean On Wednesday, I appeared on Oprah to talk about what it's like to be married to a space/time traveler and to promote my Choose-Your-Own-Adventure trashy romance novel, Passion in the Caucasus.  That evening, my shower was rudely interrupted by a film crew shooting in our apartment. Meanwhile, Jean ran into Albert Einstein and together they were able to find a way to get her back to the 21st century. On Friday, ...

For the past year and a half I've been intermittently developing a Bible study application whilst learning the Java programming language. It began as a simple word shuffle game and evolved into a complex system with that generates a wide variety of exercises based on the user's skill level, tracks progress and goals. Fortunately, even with all the complexity under the hood VerseMem is pretty easy to use. If you want to download it and try for yourself you can find a link here on my neglected development blog. Read on for an overview of VerseMem, its purpose and mechanics as explained in the user guide. Overview VerseMem is an application that guides you through Bible verse study using a variety of exercises and games. The exercises are intuitive and dynamic, adjusting to your skill level. VerseMem is specifically designed to be extremely easy to use. No navigation of screens upon screens with scores of buttons, and knobs and menus is required to get started. Admini...