Wow. I want one. Checkout the full demo.

Email, instant messaging, photos, collaborative editing all rolled together and done with that usual no bullshit Google style.

The 25% of my time spent on email would be a joy with a system like that – or perhaps just less of an ordeal 🙂

The really good news is that they’ve already published a draft of the protocol, to allow competing server implementations, and they’re talking about open sourcing their code as a starting point.

Over summer we had some new soil that we weren’t ready to plant in, so we grabbed some pumpkins that had come up in the compost and planted a few. Despite it being 40° and not raining for two months, we still got some pumpkins!

And one day riding home there were some amazing clouds, so I snapped a shot of them too. It didn’t even rain!

Also back in the depths of time, I guess it must have been March, we saw The Music at the ANU refec.

Not any old music, The Music. I don’t think I have ever seen anyone rock the ANU so hard, those guys are just insane. They’re technially a four piece, but for many of the songs the singer doesn’t play guitar, so it’s just one guitar – but my god the sound is so thick you’d think it’s 20. Incredible. And so damn loud, awesome.

Waaaay back in February, when it was scorching hot, remember that, we went and saw Ani DiFranco at the Canberra Theatre. If you missed it, well, I hope you had a good excuse – like a broken foot 🙂

She was absolutely awesome, as you’d expect, but even a bit more awesome than last time I thought. She just seemed more relaxed, and happy, and she was obviously still a bit stoked about Obama getting up. She brought a band too, which was different, and they were also great, not just backing, they really played as a band.

Excellent gig!