Viper PIts inspired by an episode of Man vs Wild set in Panama. Interesting fact:Viper pits were thought to hold a cache of lost pirate treasure. Shockingly I didn't find this out on Wikipedia. Wiki was a bit too literal.

Palau - Where is Palau and why would an archologist explore it looking for bizarre looking little people? Palau is a Pacific Island 800km east of the Philippines which has a well established matrilineal society.It's ancient connection to the Javanese lead archiologists here where they discovered the oldest known burial ceremony in Oceania. The discovery here is thought to be related to the controversial discovery of Flores in Indonesia.

I have a theory on photography - if you have a good eye then you can take a great photo with any kind of camera. Fancy expensive cameras can definitely help, but it's kind of cheating. I have alot of dodgy cameras, polaroids, lomo, action samplers. You can get some fantastic pictures out of them. Some of the best. I still have my Polaroid 600 and am anxiously monitoring The Impossible Project to see if they start producing Polaroid film again.

This photo was taken with my iPhone and then I applied a Filter through the CameraBag app.

Anyhoo, move onto the next movie. Somewhat better but we needs to scene skip past very big chunks of the movie so all in all the quiet lasts about an hour with me popping in every 10 mins to scene skip. I head back to the DVD store - determined to get my money back. No, of course I can't, instead am allowed to replace the movies and I go home to start the exact same process again. I am up to at least a few hours, petrol and car running costs that I am going to invoice the DVD store.

This always leads me to start pondering the future of the rental movie situation and the search for a new model. I loved the idea of a Netflix (and Bigpond Movies) model. Registering online and getting the movies sent straight to you, saves on the getting to the store, etc etc. But I am told that these services also suffer from a fragile lossy media format and typically the movies you get are faulty.

We have Foxtel iQ2 and the Movies/TV shows on demand is by far the better choice available to a consumer who wants to watch but not own movies at home. The HD is killer! The only problem is the limited choice available. If they had permanent back catalogues and a tiered pricing model similar to the store (which to be honest used to work) then I think we'd have something here.

Until someone comes up with something else then more and more people will be driven to services like Pirate Bay to get themselves the latest movies of a quality they can actually watch.

It's usually starts out as innocent concern about children's likenesses and them being used on the web. As anyone with children knows you are repeatedly being asked to sign a waiver allowing your child to be photographed in the event that a photograph is taken and your child just happens to be in it.

Not to say that it's all stuff of sensationalist television shows. Walking back from dinner out with the Park Mums last night one of them pointed out that the toilet block at the other park was a notorious peado hang out. Apparently, it's a well known inner city meeting place for hook ups, children have been propositioned and she has been questioned by police on a least 3 occasions in the last few years. They have locked it for the meantime until they decide what to do. So far clearing a few trees from around it hasn't worked. Surprise surprise...

So it is a very real concern. My natural tendency is to look up stats on how many paedos there are, what methods are used to find their fodder with the hope of applying some kind of probability so that I don't feel like the whole interweb has gone to hell and a hand basket - but realistically that kind of information isn't out there. To be honest I don't really want to spend any more time on these lowlifes.

For now, what I'm going to do is keep updating my daughters site so that our distant family and friends can share in the enjoyment of watching her grow. I am going to be mindful of the kind of images that can be misused and take other kind of actions to protect us. I figure that if the site can't be found through search engines then that will go a long way to ensuring no one but the people who know the URL will be able to find it.

And yes, I am willing to take the risk. The immense enjoyment that my family and I get out of having a wonderful record of our beautiful daughters life that we can share with our family and friends worldwide is worth it. I can pull it up at work when I am missing her and I can reminisce about the early years - even when I'm sitting in traffic in a cab on my mobile phone.

The other day it was "gabriel method" and another time "fibromyalgia"