Day 24-26 New Island
3rd – The morning was spent on New Island. Bit of a hike up the hill and you reach a colony of rockhoppers and albatross. The zombie penguins as usual. They looks more like zombie falling penguins when they go … Continued
Day 23 Carcass Island
Today was basically a “filler” day in terms of photography but it turned out to be a nice day. We landed on the beach and the sun was shining so we took a bit of walk and found somewhere out … Continued
Day 22 Westpoint and Grave Cove
This morning we headed to Westpoint. After a bit of a hike up the hill we scabbed a lift in the caretaker’s Jeep. After a short walk we arrived at a massive Albatross colony on a massive cliff. We headed … Continued
Day 21–Steeple Jason and Grave Cove
This morning we were up and ready to land on Steeple Jason which is home to 20000 albatross. It’s a difficult landing site with a narrow weather window so the team were planning on landing us and leaving us there … Continued
Day 20–Saunders Island
Today we headed to Saunders Island. Even though I knew on Day 12 the dream was over, being in the snow and conditions in South Georgia hid that seeing penguins on bright green grass really brought that front and centre. … Continued
Day 16-19 Back to Falkland Islands
We’ve had to head back to Falklands. We spent 3 days in rough seas and to top it off I have a head cold. Normally it’s pretty awful to be sick and not in your own bed. It’s also awful … Continued
Day 15–Gold Harbour
We pulled into Gold Harbour bright an early and they woke us up 2 hours earlier than expected as the weather was good. When buying gear for this trip I had resisted cheaping out and we’d bought expensive waterproof pants … Continued
Day 13 and 14–Salisbury Plains
We’d had a rough night in more way than one and this is the view that greeted us out of our porthole this morning We made it to Salisbury Plains this Thursday afternoon to give us some fresh air but … Continued
Day 12–Grytviken and Jason Habour
This morning we landed at our first of two compulsory stops on our trip – Grytviken. It’s an old whaling station that was set up in 1904. After being cold yesterday I went for more layers. This time I had … Continued
Day 11 – Land Ahoy!
We’re running ahead of schedule and we’re going to hit land early and actually walk on solid ground today. My head has stopped spinning. Not sure if it’s the calmer waters, not taking my old meds or taking the new … Continued
Day 8-10 All aboard the Ushuaia
Saturday we’re up early to get to the airport for our flight to Mt Pleasant. If you’ve never been on a smallish plane with 100+ photographers it’s an experience. Unsurprisingly with a full flight we quickly ran out of overhead … Continued
Day 7–Hotel Switcheroo Bring on Antarctica
Today was hotel swap day. Moving out of our little apartment and to our much more expensive and swish hotel to meet up with our group before the big journey begins. When we arrived our room wasn’t ready so we … Continued
Day 6–Hike up Alto el Naranjo
Today we got out of town and went for a hike up Alto el Naranjo. It’s a short drive out of the city except in peak hour traffic when it’s quite a bit longer. It’s quite a steep walk on … Continued
Day 5–Back in Business to Santiago
No sunrise for us this morning so a bit of a sleep-in. Spent the morning taking a few snaps at Tahai in the morning sun. After carting our National Park ticket around this was the first day John left his … Continued
Day 4–chilling around Easter Island
Woke up early this morning for sunrise only for it to be really cloudy and pouring down with rain. So meant a nice slow morning and catching up on some sleep. Went into town for lunch and to get some … Continued
Day 3–Monday, The Many Statues of Easter Island
We woke up early this morning – something about jumping back 13hrs in time one day and then another 2 the next. The sun doesn’t rise here till about 7:30 am and we had no wheels so it was a … Continued
Day 2–Sunday To Easter Island
This morning we were up early to catch our flight to Easter Island. I was a bit worried whether the taxi the hotel had called for us would arrive or it would be lost in translation of my extremely poor … Continued
Day 1–Saturday To Santiago
Today we are officially on holidays. After booking this trip over 14 months in advance it has been a slow countdown. It’s been a long first day getting up at 5am to get to the airport in Brisbane, to catch … Continued
Windows To Go–Dev’ing Kinect when you don’t have an Win8 PC
For those running a Mac or a pc running something other the Windows 8 or 8.1 you can still develop with Kinect v2 SDK. The Kinect Team have put together a great post on a few alternatives here. My favorite … Continued
Top Resources for Getting to Know Kinect v2 SDK
The public preview for the Kinect V2 SDK came out recently and I get a few questions on where to start. Here’s my top resources to help you out. Since the alpha device the hub and powersupply has reduced in … Continued
Moving an Existing Blog site
We’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front for awhile. There’s a few reasons : we’re busy, we’ve been procrastinating but also we thought this would be much easier…. Our site was a Dot Net Nuke instance from a … Continued
Learning To ride a Bicycle As An Adult
For reasons that are a whole other story I never leant to ride a bicycle as a child. It never really bothered me back then, and as a young adult didn’t worry me much either. I had my car license … Continued
Rails Girls Brisbane #3
Tonight we kicked off the install fest for Rails Girls Brisbane #3 . It was great to see lots of ladies attending and to see a large number of mentors to help out. After much installing we got everyone together … Continued
Young ICT Explorers 2014
Today was Young ICT Explorers judging for QLD. This is my 3rd year as a judge. It’s great to see so many young people getting excited with technology and building cool stuff. It’s also great to recognise a bunch of … Continued
Kinect-ing the Dots–Brisbane Games Technology Meetup
Today we headed into QUT to show off the Kinect v2 Alpha device to the Brisbane Game Technology Meetup Group. It was great to show off the new device and compare to some of the features of the original Kinect. … Continued
Tech Girls are SuperHeros Launch
Today is International Women’s Day and also the launch of the Tech Girls are Superheroes book featuring yours truly as Aion. Jenine launched the Tech Girls Movement to promote positive role models to encourage and raise awareness of information technology … Continued
13 Feb-Bicycle ride and Cooking Course
Got up reasonably early to head out on our countryside bicycle ride. When I signed up for this ride I couldn’t actually ride a bike so I’ve spent most weekends since Christmas on a fast learning track. I did come … Continued
12 Feb-Temple Day
Today was our main temple day. We got up at 4:30am to get ready for the onslaught which is Angkor Wat sunrise. At 5 we set off to test my patience with people for the day. We arrived in the … Continued
11 Feb-Angkor Wat sunset
Today we set off from KL to Siem Reap. We managed to flag down a cab driver fairly easily and made it to the airport without any major dramas. By the time we found something to eat and were herded … Continued
10 Feb – Transformers Expo
Today is our last full day in KL. We were lined up to do some more presentations which got cancelled so we had the whole day to fill in. I’d spotted the 30th anniversary Transformers Expo so off we went … Continued