Run Tigers Run

A double-header of entertainment today, with a trip to Moore Park to watch the Wests vs St George NRL game; the first round of the season. Went with Sallie and Wayne for that one, then just Sallie after for dinner and a movie -- the Simon Pegg comedy "Run Fatboy Run", which was pretty damn funny, with a lot of highlights with Pegg and costar Dylan Moran.

The football went mostly well, with Wests taking in a solid 24-16 win the start the season. Started badly, with Benji Marshall going down injured again in five minutes, but Wests ended up blowing out to a 24-4 lead anyway -- didn't really see that coming. Then naturally they had to almost blow it with St George back before losing 24-16. Ultimately, Wests were solid but not brilliant, with the usual guys like Hodgson (who's kicking goals well again) and Farah playing very well. Good start to the season, and better they get used to being without Marshall now I guess.

Run Fatboy Run is a damn funny movie, which is what we expected with Simon Pegg and Dylan Moran (both of whom Sallie probably likes way more than I do!) funny as always, and good performances from Thandie Newtown and Hank Azaria, along with various fun British comedy cameos. It evokes some of that Richard Curtis British comedy vibe, but is so much better than that stuff in so many ways. Example -- in Fatboy, the characters are not all white! It's a little thing, but it makes this far more real, with a greater setup of the humour as well. And the story was more believable as well, with some great funny beats, but a more realistic conclusion.

So Fatboy, tops, Tigers pretty good, good day overall. Quite expensive, so I'm glad the day was a gift from the parents for my birthday. Fun, fun, fun!

Domains, servers and getting things right

At the moment no one can really read this even, so it seems a bit dumb, but I do want to keep up the habit.

Either way, that shouldn't last for long, as tonight I've set up a new decent web space account, and am setting up Wordpress to go with it (where I can have also raw pages, FTP servers, databases, wikis, message boards -- in short, anything I feel like). No more Blogger for me I've decided, and I want to be able to transfer all the data from this to the new site, and really get this looking professional.

I mean, this new setup isn't even that hard or that expensive, but it will be seriously better quality -- just what I need.

And naturally, when the site is up and running, first job will be pics on the Underbelly story :)

In other news, the NRL started tonight, and I'm 0 for 2 in tipping already. And the Kings lost the last game of the finals as well.

That would seem to mark the end of Summer, not that you can tell from the sudden warm spell.

Are we good or what?

It's hard not to be interested by cricket in the summer here, and when Australia plays like they are at the moment, it's hard not to be impressed.

Test goes down to the final day, the opposition is mostly actually quite good for once, it looks for anything like a draw ... but we pull it out of the bag with just seven balls remaining in the day. Amazing!

Kudos to the team ... there's already questions about sportsmanship and umpiring decisions, as there always is, but still, they played well, they played tough but fair, and they won. Symonds was easy man of the match, and Lee, Hogg and Hayden were especially good, Clarke was amazing bowling (but surprisingly bad batting,) and Hussey came good in the second innings.

In summer, too much cricket is never enough! Bring on test win 17!

(Read the link if you have no idea what I'm talking about!)