Dugie’s Pensieve

It’s been a big and busy couple of weeks, and amongst building a new website, moving to hosted exchange, and a whole bunch of other stuff (more blog posts to follow) I’m also planning a roadtrip.  The road trip is about ~1200 kilometers (or 750 miles) from Brisbane to Sydney via a couple of scenic detours.  The round trip should take me about a week.

This trip should come to you live, uncut an uncensored, because I plan to get the bike to plot my progress as go along.  This has been on my bucket list for months, but haven’t had the time to make it happen =)

Enough jibber-jabber, here is where I am at:

• After an unfortunate mistake, I have a new phone, it is the HTC TyII (with a GPS), it should have been a HTC Touch Pro - but alas I got raw end of a bad deal; Oh well, a lesson learned.
• My new phone is going to need juice for the trip, so I’ve already bought a Car Charger, and fitting an accessory line to the bike.
• I’ve also got a 8Gb memory card, full of music for the trip (my bike helmet is already blue tooth equipped)
• I’m still building a bracket so the phone/camera can sit behind the windshield; I have a bad feeling it may require drilling holes.
• Hopefully I’ll be able to easily take photos tagged with location; whatever I use, it will have to be clean and simple.
• I’ve also sorted my TwitPic account and BrightKite account as well
• After looking at a few options, I think I’ve settled on Inca-X, as the brains in the phone for this.

Hopefully I can pull this all together and somehow get an autotwitter, photo (no video) and update of my last know location as I drift in and out of data coverage.

It’s no big secret, I don’t watch [live, if any] Television — I haven’t done so for 3 nearly 4 years now, it’s an inefficient use of what very little spare time I have.  When I want to wind down (or wind up), it needs to be short, sharp and on my schedule.    ….but then again, I don’t listen to the radio either, or read printed newspapers.  Instead I prefer a web browser and podcasts. 

I do struggle with mainstream media; it’s like persisting with bad coffee, after a while it’s just easier to go without it.  Alas I’m getting off topic.

I was reading a post  on Seth’s Blog, and the following snippet really hit home with me:

TV is over. If people are interested, they’ll watch. On their time (or their boss’s time). They’ll watch online, and spread the idea. You can’t email a TV commercial to a friend, but you can definitely spread a YouTube video. The cycle of ads got shorter and shorter, and the most important ads were made for the web, not for TV. Your challenge isn’t to scrape up enough money to buy TV time. Your challenge is to make video interesting enough that we’ll choose to watch it and choose to share it.

Uh-huh, I agree Seth, you nailed it nicely buddy.  The media tide is turning, exciting times ahead!