Yes I am back from Egypt, and I should have put up a post about what I did there. But things are busy now, and I am very tired. I’ve been tired for a week now and it is not good. I almost fell asleep in front of the big boss today. I been doing stuff too. Yesterday I sorted through almost 1/3 of my Egypt & Jordan photos. They are now all geocoded and ready to appear on Flickr and Panoramio, but I’ll do that another day. For now I have a tiny sample of my holiday snaps. Indisputable evidence that I have been to the great pyramids at Giza.

So here I am in Cairo, where the road markings are just suggestions, and car indicators are aural rather than visual. The are does seem a little smoggy, hoopefully that’ll clear outside the big city. I’m already checked into the hotel and no one else is arriving for several hours, so I have the day to wander around and find a nice park to read a book. Here I go.

I’m almost all packed, just waiting for the traffic to die down so I can get to the super market and buy the last few essentials, and then I’m off. Three weeks in Egypt and Cairo! oh yeah

It’s been almost a year since I last used this. I got busy and I got lazy. On Wednesday I fly off to Egypt, and that has gotten me motivated to start blogging again. I think I’ll leave The Big O.E. as it was, that is over with now and I am onto different things. See you in Cairo!

   My work days are taken up writing code. Or staring at others’ code wondering what they were trying to achieve. The stuff I’ve been doing at work hasn’t been very exciting recently and I figured I needed a new project at home. So I built a bed. It’s more of a futon base than a bed as pictured by most people. But I’ve been on futons since forever (apart from the year in Europe which had a lot of trains, ferries, a park bench and a few mountain huts, and the year at my parents’ which was a sofa bed) and I got some cool tatami mats so I based the design around them.

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   It’s been available else where for a few weeks now so I guess I should mention LiveWidget 2.0 on my own blog. LiveWidget is a client for the LiveJournal weblog site that runs in Apple’s Dashboard (part of OS X 10.4). It’s much the same as before of course, no major rewrite here, but there are some new features that make it worth the download.

• Userpics: Log in and you’ll get a list of all your uploaded userpics
• Tags: add tags to your entries to help sort them later
• Secure Passwords: using a plugin by Benjamin Swanson to store passwords in the OS X Keychain

   I hope people out there enjoy it, drop me line if you have any ideas for improvements.

Update: A problem has been found and fixed under OS X 10.4.3 so if you have LiveWidget 2.0 you should update to 2.1

   I’ve just published the latest revision of RecentWidgets. Incase you hadn’t heard of it before I had better tell you what it does and why you can’t live without it. It’s an RSS feed watcher. And the particular feeds it watches come from the following widget download sites:

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