Archive for February, 2009

PUSH UP’S BY TUESDAY!!?!?!!

I am not the worlds most enthusiastic sport person. I as a matter per fact find most sports games boring. The only sport I love and will always love it Volleyball!! I am quite good at it, as well… Not bragging or anything =D!!

Anyway, last Thursday I was put to the test on what I knew about Sport in general. I knew nothing, apart from Volleyball rules, so I was then asked if I knew how to do a push up… I was like.. Umm, ye, actually no..!! So I was asked to demonstrate a pushup. I was told that my push up looked like I was humping the floor. I wasn’t bending my elbows!! (How was I supposed to know!! lol) So, after 2 hours of training I learnt how to do a pushup. But, my teacher wanted me to get better, So he told me that I needed to demonstrate 10 to him by Tuesday.. AAaaaaahhhhggghhhh!!! I can’t do 10 pushups!! I don’t know how!! Dammit!! I think when he said that I got it, it was his way of saying.. You’re hopeless, you can now leave!! lol..

Oh well… I guess I’ll just demonstrate humping the floor..

Carl :-)

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ADDICTING MAC MAGAZINE!!

I’ve been addicted to many things… Vitamin water in particular!! In September 2008 I went on holiday to Italy. While I was at the Perth international airport I found a Magazine called ‘Macworld’. I picked it up, flipped through it and bought it.. I read it on the plane and I liked it! I never bought it again though. Yesterday I went to the news agency and what do I find? The Macworld magazine!! I flipped through it, and I bought it.. I read it, and it had so many awesome things in there that I am not addicted. I cannot wait for next weeks (Or, maybe it’s a monthly) edition! Woot!! :) It has a lot of awesome things in there, so if you love Mac’s like I do this is the magazine for you!! :)

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STEVE JOBS BIRTHDAY YOUTUBE PROBLEMS

Yesterday was my hero Steve Jobs birthday!! He turned 54!! Naturally, I made him a video!! It took forever to edit and I couldn’t even spit the words out!! lol.. I tweeted a help message and my friend Michael helped me out with some things to say! :)

My favourite line was. “Happy Birthday Steve, you’re 54 but you don’t look a day over 969.”

Lets get to my YouTube problems!! I uploaded the movie through iMovie due to my last movie that I uploaded through the YouTube website taking 4 days. So I waited and waited and waited and waited.. But, My video never uploaded!! So I am waiting for stupid YouTube to fix up this issue as it is $@%&%#* me off!! I cannot wait for people to start using Viddler more because it is so much better!!

WordPress isn’t letting me add links, so If you want to check Viddler out go to: http://viddler.com
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SAFARI 4 BETA HAS ARRIVED!!

Look at what Apple just threw in the deep end!! Safari 4 Beta has arrived!! Wooo

I was so excited when I clicked on the link! I downloaded it straight away which only took 3 minutes!

I haven’t been playing around with it too much but let me tell you. It is a Beta, and there are times that it shows!!

A couple of Problems :(

Don’t get me wrong.. I love Safari 4 but I have found a problem and something that I just don’t like..

The thing I don’t like is the bug symbol on the right of the window. It is annoying, and it wasn’t necessary. It should be in the file option.

The problem I am experiencing with Safari 4 is the ‘Show top sites mosaic feature which is similar to Spaces. Let me explain.

Safari 4 is very smart, elegant and very fast! It has adapted many amazing features from the Mac. A new feauture in Safari is the Show top sites feature. When you push it you are greeted with a Spaces type image with lots of mosaics full of your most visited webpages. This feature is great but, it is very very buggy!! After you choose your website you’d like to go to, it take 1-2 seconds to understand where its going before it moves. Another buggy thing about it, is that after you are on a website that you chose from within the new Show top sites feature it will no longer let you go bqack into the show top sites page!! It is annoying, because if it worked it would be an awesome feature that I’d use until the cows come home!! =D

Here is my very mini review on Safari 4!!

Expect more to come on Snow Leopard (When Apple decide to ship it), Safari, the new iLife apps and whatever new stuff Apple release!

Have a nice evening! :)

Carl

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DEAD LITTLE MIGHTY MOUSE!!

*Says Hail Mary 30 times over* Today, my Mighty Mouse became disabled :( . It no longer goes up!! :( I have had multiple problems with Mighty Mice, but the good old ‘Spin the ball on paper up and down a few times’ trick has always fixed it! Well friends… This time… My beloved white mouse shaped friend is not wanting to work!! I am certainly not the first person to have this problem.. A good old Google search will prove this! Apple’s Mighty Mouse is not so mighty says one result.. And boy, do I agree!! I have had 2 of these so far… 1 of which has been smashed to pieces by my clumsy brothers (Which is now fixed – I’ll explain in a second). That leads me to the next part of my Post..

Durability of the Mighty Mouse.

Let me tell you. When you all thought that my iPhone drop count was high @ 56 well.. Ok, that’s a phone – It will survive….. But the Apple mighty thing-is a mouse.. a lot more delicate than a Phone. I have dropped this 6 times. the first 3 it survived. The 4th it came apart… Out came the fist and BOOM… It went back down. Then, drop #5 came around and it came apart… I was scared it wouldn’t be fixable. I eventually (With a bit of force) got it back down and it worked. Drop #6 was by far the worst. The mouse was in 3 peices.. But, after playing around with it I got it to work again but the scroll wheel now officially doesn’t work!! Serves me right! :P

*Note: I have a fixing the mighty mouse time lapsed video coming soon but YouTube is taking FOREVER!!! Damb the internetz!!!

iCarluccio :)

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WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY MACBOOK PRO??

For those of you who followed me on Twitter through December, you’d know that I have very bad luck with my computers. I have finally found a macbook pro which seems to work, but today the fan is continuously running!! It all happened after I installed iLife ’09! :( What the hell has this done to my computer?? It is really annoying as well, because it just starts and stops…… I am going to investigate further, but if you are exxperiencing anything else like this please leave a comment and I’ll contact Apple!! This is my favourite computer and if it dies well then I’m going back to Sony. I’m sorry to say.. :( I am a loyal Apple fanatic, but I’ve had too many faulty products. Grrrrr….

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I MET JENNIFER HAWKINS!!!

Today was the day folks!! I met Jennifer Hawkins!! She is an amazing, beautiful and stunning model! She suits Myer… Megan Gale is better for David Jones. Anyway.. Here is a 30 second video I compiled using iMovie ’09 and Final Cut. I love them both!!

Oh, and My Macbook Pro has gone all funny. :( The fans randomly spin!! They are loud too. It was only once I installed iLife ’09! :( I’ll blog about that later!

iCarluccio!

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I HATE WORDPRESS FOR THE IPHONE!!!

OK, Last night I was lying down on the couch and figured that I should type a blog post.. I had finished it, edited it, added pictures etc.. but stupid me pushed save instead of done. My iPhone said that it had been saved the the Local Drafts file… So Off i go looking in local drafts, only to find that the horrible WordPress iPhone app was taking forever to load the Local Drafts… SO I closed the application and went to my computer hoping to find it in my local drafts there.. But, No!! It wasn’t there!! I thought back and remembered that time I blogged about my friend buying a Pug. I wrote the post and pressed save the Local Drafts… After 2 days it appeared in my local drafts… In that time I made another blog post about the Pug which wasn’t as fun as the other one because I was in a bad mood due to the stupid wordpress iPhone application!!
Come on WordPress!! What the hell are you doing? If I press ‘Save to Local Drafts’ I expect it to appear right away not after 4 days!!! The WordPress application for the iPhone is rubbish… Save your time and don’t download it!!
Carl.. Grr

EWWW!! DON’T EAT THERE!!

I received an email with a PDF attached to it. This document was written by Chris Thompson on January 15, 2009 .

A French restaurant in the leafy suburb of Nedlands has joined fast food chains McDonalds,

Chicken Treat and Nando’s on the list of WA restaurants prosecuted for health breaches in

2008.

According to figures released by the Department of Health, 18 WA food outlets were

prosecuted for unhygienic practices last year – up from 13 outlets fined in 2007.

Food purveyors named and shamed by local authority health inspectors last year were:

. La Cascade Restaurant, Nedlands – Fined $9250 for vermin in restaurant, unclean

premises, failing to protect food from contamination, and keeping unclean and disrepaired

appliances;

. McDonalds Family Restaurant, Midland – Fined $1500 for selling uncooked chicken

burgers;

. Hans Cafe, Leederville – Fined $3888 for vermin on premises, storing hazardous food at

unsafe temperatures, offering damaged and contaminated food for sale, having dirty and

disrepaired appliances, and keeping unclean and disrepaired premises;

. Fast Eddy’s Cafe, Midland – Fined $6957.70 for keeping unclean and disrepaired premises,

and for dirty appliances;

. Nando’s Restaurant, Canning Vale – fined $3250 for unclean air ducts, not keeping food

containers far enough from the floor, and inadequate coolroom facilities;

. Chicken Treat, Maddington – fined $9027.31 for unclean appliances, failing to protect food

from contamination and keeping unclean premises;

. Golden Century Seafood Chinese Restaurant, Northbridge – fined a whopping

$25,873.68 for dirty appliances, unprotected food, and keeping unclean and disrepaired

premises;

. Sarindo Indonesian Restaurant, Thornlie – fined $2981.70 for cockroaches in the

restaurant, keeping unclean premises and appliances, and failing to protect eating utensils

from contamination.

. Lloyds Bakery and Lunch Bar, Maddington – fined $3660 for having vermin on premises,

keeping unclean premises, and disrepaired appliances, and having a light fitting without a

protective cover;

. BBH French Hot Bread, Stratton – fined $4950.70 for vermin on premises, keeping unclean

premises and failing to control the temperature of its food;

. Utopia vegetarian Restaurant, Northbridge – fined $4957.70 for unclean appliances, and

keeping unclean and disrepaired premises.

. Bunbury French Hot Bread Shop – fined $7626.80 for preparing and selling adulterated

food.

. Kipling’s Indian Cuisine, Northbridge – fined $3057.70 for dirty appliances, unprotected

food, and keeping unclean and disrepaired premises.

. Turkish Kitchen, Gosnells – fined $2256.40 for disrepaired and unclean appliances, and

unclean ventilation equipment.

. Wanneroo Pastry House – fined $2228.10 for selling adulterated food.

. Wu Ming food manufacturers, Canning Vale – fined $5333.70 for failing to keep waste

food in a rat-proof container, keeping unclean and disrepaired premises and unclean air ducts, and failing to protect windows and doorways from insect intrusion;

. An-Nuur Singapore Foods, Thornlie – fined $2568.70 for a filthy hand wash basin, an

unclean servery, keeping utensils in contact with poisons, keeping unclean and disrepaired

premises, and failing to protect food from contamination.

. Thornlie Halal Meats and Supermarket – fined $3,900 for disprepaired appliances, unclean

premises, failing to cover food,and absence of an accessible hand wash basin and single-use

towels.

Do yourself a favour… If you live in WA.. Don’t eat there.. Blah! agreed?
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LONG DAY FULL OF SING REHEARSALS!

For those who have followed me on Twitter for the past 6 months would know that I sing. I have recently become a member in a jazz band and tonight was given the pleasure to perform infront of 1300 people at my school. I was extremely newvous but I apparently did an amazing Job. I was nervcous but once I got on stage and held that microphone in my hand I was so confident that I could’ve sung all night. :) . I sang the World Youth Day Song: Receive the Power. I learnt the version by Paulini + Guy Sebastian. I  have horrible video footage due to people moving around and in front of the camera, thought the sound quality was surprisingly good (Despite the wind)… When I get the chance – either tonight or tomorrow I’ll compile all of the footage together and make something out of it.. :)

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Xxxx iCarluccio…

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