The world according to Dan

I won’t bother typing too much here…. just check out the video!

Some of you may know already, but I’ve recently thrown myself into the world of photography. It’s a hobby that I think I’ve always wanted to get into, but just never have had the right conditions to do so.

I’ve started a photoblog. My goal is one picture per day over the next year and beyond. It’s all about practice and getting to know my way around my camera and figuring out how to set up interesting shots. I’m still very wet around the ears, but I’ll never learn unless I give it a shot.

Here’s the link. Let me know what you think. www.danielfisher.com.au. If you’re that way inclined, you could always grab the RSS feed.

Cheers. DF.

Ha! Of course when I say “clean” I mean blood, guts and gore… but it’s comedy, not horror and we all need to laugh a little more these days.

I was lucky enough to catch a sneak preview on Monday night with my brother down at the Jam Factory. I went in without too many expectations…. a “Zombie killing comedy”…. no academy award nominations were likely. However, I was surprised by this movie. A good mix of “in your face” and subtle humour. Woody Harrelson’s line “that’ll do pig” is still playing out in my mind 2 days later. If you’re a fan of “Shaun of the Dead”, or similar comedies, go and check it out.

Woody H plays his part well, as does Jessie Eisenberg (The Hunting Party / The Village). All up, a good young cast held together well by Woody and a very cool cameo by Bill Murray.

Not in the league of the awesome comedies of late, such as “The Hangover”….. however a few laughs, just don’t take it too seriously, sit back, relax and enjoy.

DF

Check out the trailer on youtube

So, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 18 months you’re undoubtably aware about how social networking is revolutionising the way we digest our news, messages and other online information.

Twitter lists, developing realtime search functionality, facebook funnels of data – everyone is trying to make sense of this massive amount of data and put it together in a format that gives us all relevant, realtime, authoritive information.

The first company to do it well will dominate the space. Most of us don’t particularly care about trending topics such as “goodnight” and “it should be illegal”. We want info we care about and is relevant to our needs and interests. We need to filter out the noise, and sift through the junk. A lot of work for someone….. they’re all trying….. let’s see who gets there first!

So, like myself you may have been depriving yourself of all quality sleep for the last couple of weeks hoping that Cadel Evans might be able to go one better than last year and bring home cyclings greatest prize. Night, after night we’ve been waiting for him to make a move, waiting for him to get out in front and challenge the mighty Astana team….. finally the outside chance is over. He’s gone. No chance of even making the podium. What a let down!

Whether he’s out of form, or whether it’s because he doesn’t have the team mates around him to get him to the top….. who knows? All that we know for sure is that we can now stop worrying about Cadel and start to focus more on the action up front.

Can anyone catch Contador? Will Andy Schleck make a move and bridge the gap? Will Armstrong put in another superhuman effort and rewrite the history books.

I’m so disappointed as an Aussie that Cadel couldn’t do some damage this year, but the battle up front and the action to follow on the way to Paris is more than making up for it!

So this post is a little late, but I have been living in a bubble without web access quicker than dial-up for the last week.

As many of you know, the 31st annual Melbourne Marathon was run and won last Sunday throughout the streets of Melbourne bayside and city proper.

Not exactly the greatest day for running, it was quite hot and the wind was blowing. I was rapt with how it all turned out. 4:42 – this is 31 minutes better than last years effort (my first). Things were on track for a 4:15 until I started cramping up at about the 34km mark. The last 8 kms were a mix of walking, jogging & hobbling – so to cross the finish line was a fantastic feeling in itself.

Thanks to everyone for their well wishes on the phone and on facebook. I’ll be back again next year to hopefully knock off another 31 minutes!!

My domain – www.premierleaguetipping.com is for sale.

Tell your premier league loving friends!!

I’ll happily pay a spotters fee to anyone who puts me in contact with a buyer for the domain.

Check it out on SEDO

This is lol funny

Homer tries to vote for Obama