Before I do, can I just say Season 6 rocked! What a payoff!

What I loved:

• Richard’s story was awesome!
• So much insight into the island, it makes you realise that the whole Dharma Initiative was a red herring!
• It makes sense now why Christian was everywhere!

What disappointed me:

• No Nikki and Paolo in the alternate world – sure everyone hated them, but it would have been nice to have a Nikki & Paolo goodbye.
• No Walt answers – okay, I get it, the actor aged, but it would help to have a wrap up.
• No Mr. Eko, and very little Shannon and Boone alternate realities – Mr. Eko was a favourite of mine.
• Ben’s turn to the dark side again – oh Ben, I suppose it is your nature though. I was enjoying redeemed Ben though.
• Richard, are you dead? Say it’s not so!

Okay, here’s my prediction:

So, Jacob’s adversary is not able to leave the Island, he’s always wanted to, it’s his ultimate goal and he can’t go until all the candidates are dead by their own hands. I get that. But it was kind of implied that Jacob can’t leave either. But that contradicts Season Five where we see Jacob intervening in the candidates’ lives in the past. Plus Mikhail said Jacob recruited him. Now Mikhail is a liar (although if he said he was recruited in Canada we’d KNOW it was a lie), but let’s take him at face value. How do we reconcile these facts?

Well, there’s an alternate Jack, an alternate Locke, an alternate Kate, etc etc. What if there was an alternate Jacob? Not in the alternate world, but in the original world? I can’t really explain how there can be two Jacobs but there might be the one who can’t leave the Island, and another who is like Alternate Desmond, setting things in motion, subtly manipulating people to some goal only known to him. Maybe there’s a Jacob out there somewhere living the life we want for Desmond, with his wife, maybe on good terms with his brother.

Well, there you go, my last guess at LOST. Thank you J.J. Abrams, thank you ABC, a six year payoff, and a TV show that changed everything.

Here’s a page that shows not.  So these people are selling a (goofy?) product.  Presumably they don’t want to piss me, a potential customer, off.  So they include a gallery of photos and make all the images thumbnails.

Except they didn’t bother to actually make thumbnails.  So now, when I visit this page, the browser actually downloads ALL the images IN FULL and they rely on my browser to do all the resizing, slowing the page loading down even more.

It would take probably 30 minutes at the most to resize all these photos (and that’s very generous); for the cost of half an hour, I’m guessing most customers ditch the page without bothering for the images to load.

EnviroDome Photos.

Here’s the answer to all those people who say it’s pointless to do anything in Australia until they start doing something in China.

Yeah, Big Bad China is kicking our ass in combating global warming now.  They’re turning around that ship of one point whatever billion people faster than we are able to maneuver our 20 something million.

There goes our excuse: now we’re left with just the reason – we’re lazy.

Must read editorial on the failure that will be the Great Firewall of China.

Make no mistake, this will be another Labor Bungle.  Although it won’t cause the loss of life the Insulation Affair did, it’s going to cost us far more money is lost productivity and lost opportunity, even before the program costs, which will be huger than huge.

If you think the Global Economy will not be Internet driven (if it isn’t already) in the future, then you’re living in a dream world.  A country without Internet tomorrow will be as competitive as a country without roads was yesterday.  And here’s Kevin Rudd and the crew erecting 10kph speed limit signs.

And to what end?

This will do nothing to combat Child Pornography.

Not one thing.

It’ll be as effective at fighting child porn as throwing out all your silverware, except it sounds more related.

Wow, this is some impressive stuff!  Something I’m going to have to look into further for the redesign.

Cute idea, but I’m not sure how often I’d use it.  I prefer clarity to cleverness.

If you know me, you might know about my privacy assignment from last year at UOW that involved sock puppets.  It was a creative assignment that I really threw myself into, and I kind of like that it was whimsical.  Whimsical enough that I set my Twitter profile photo to be one of the puppets.

So I figured, since it’s become associated with me anyway, why not rewrite my theme to reflect this?

The current theme uses a plug in to WordPress called Sandbox that allows you to just design your theme with CSS.  Now, I know PHP but the thought of digging through the loop just bugs me.  I like that Sandbox just gives me a clean slate to work off of.  The theme itself is tinted blue, to reflect my mood & personality and every 4 hours, one of 6 different photos from a recent trip to Canada appears.  It was an experiment in Eric Meyer’s ComplexSpiral and using time to change a theme (useful for automatically adding the Christmas logo to your website).

But, I hate it.  It’s too much blue.  It’s ugly.  The files are too large (as I put it to my class recently – I’m moving bathtubs through the internet).  And people don’t get the ComplexSpiral.  They get it, but they don’t GET it.  They don’t notice it, they don’t realise how cool, how special, how different it is.

As someone put it to me awhile ago “Oh yeah, I can do that on MySpace”.  Well, no, YOU can’t.  You’re just selecting a theme.  You’re not doing anything.  It’s like if you directed a movie and showed me the movie and said “see?” and I said “Hey I can do that too!” and I put a movie in the DVD.  I’m not actually making the movie, ya know.

So, here’s my plan, base a theme on sock puppets.  Scan buttons, socks, felt, wool, and start assembling the pics into something cool.

Now just to find the time…

Well here’s a neat thing: in the app store – I know I can’t believe I’m discussing the app store either – there’s a neat little app to update your WordPress blog from your phone! That’s right, this is the first iPhone blog post for kshuntley.com.

I want one