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Now in sunny Mendoza (360 days a year of sunshine). Ferry back across from Montevideo and 12hr overnight bus. Booked into a lovely little hostel. After a quick dip in the pool it was time to hit the town for our first proper Argentinean steak.

Yummmyyyyyyyy

And a little amaretto

Ferry from Colonia

With no time to lose, we were up and equipped with two shiny red bikes to cruise the Montevideo boulevard.

We had a nice peddle in lovely sunny weather, reading the pro Jesus graffiti on the seats. Pity they put a six lane road next to the boulevard.

Stopped in for a bit of a sun bath and swim.

Katie with the ocean to herself (the small white dot to the right)

Followed by delicious seafood lunch.

It was always going to be a long one. London → Madrid → Buenos Aires → Montevideo in one hit was quite ambitious. But sitting down with a beer at 3pm in San Telmo, after a leasury walk through the Sunday market in Plaza Dorrego with only a short ferry to Montevideo to go, we thought we were all over it. It's then I made the fatal mistake of commenting on how easy things were going. Sure I knocked on wood as soon as I said it, but no good. A few minor mishaps stringed together resulted in us arriving at the ferry port, sweating profusely, to watch our ferry pull out of the dock without us. Due to our tight schedule, this meant we might not get to go Uruguay at all.

But not all was lost. We were able to catch a later ferry, to a different city, and bus it from there, arriving only 4hrs late. Thus, after dropping our bags in to the hostel, the only bars open for a drink were down by the port, with the ladies of the night. All in all, quite a fair days' travel.

Relaxing in San Telmo

As stated in my earlier twitter post, it was just fantastic to be back in Buenos Aires (just for the afternoon). Absolutely beautiful late summers Sunday afternoon, wandering through the antiques market in my favourite barrio, San Telmo. It was like I had never left. Tango dancers in the street, people relaxing outside the cafes, music in the air, scented with the smell of the Parrillas (those famous Argentinean steak houses). Sunday afternoon is by far the best time, as the streets are closed to traffic for all the market stalls, lowering the decibel level by about 1000%. For the rest of the week clapped out buses with no mufflers fly down the cobble stone streets, creating quite a racket.

While this whole working while travelling is a bit hard.  I continually feel that I'm not giving places their true justice, by spending A LOT of time on my laptop in hostel rooms and not exploring as much as I'd like to.  In saying that, it is still a positive experience.  Like this morning's comute to work (hotel with wifi) across Warsaw on public buses is definately something different than an hour on the sardine-fest that is the Victoria Line!!

OS X comes with apache and php installed, but not enabled.  While it's quite easy to get the Apache server up and running, through system preferences -> Sharing ->  check "Web Sharing".  You still have to then enable the php5 module.  This is done by editing the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and uncommenting (removing the # from) the line "LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so"

Don't forget to restart apache with "sudo apachectl restart"
 

I was able to get two way syncronising working between iCal and my google calendar!!  Using this tutorial:

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99357

Then I was able to sync my iPhone with iCal.  The only problem is that I can't add events to the google calendar from the calendar application on the iPhone.  To do this, I have to use the google calendar web interface.  Bugger......

This has taken a long time to get working, for something that is pretty simple.  I develop on a Mac, but sometimes I have to work in .NET enviroment.  To do this, we just used to work from a development server.  But then we started to use subversion, sure we could still work from the sever, but we really should be working from localhost. 

Had a problem today with firefox not correctly calculating element dimensions.  The problem was that I had my css defined after the script.  As a result  jQuery was calculating the height, before the CSS had been applied.

Changed the order and the problem was fixed

Now I've moved to jQuery, need to build up a library of components to use.

I have just used nyroModal for the Perfect Pizza site.  I found it very good and powerful, but had to modify it a lot to get the specific behaviour we were looking for.  Took a lot of work.  In saying that, have just incorporated it into NFA site in a matter of minutes!

Going to Santa's house for Christmas!!  Figured we're gunna struggle for a present this year from Santa, so we thought we'd rock to to his place in Lapland, knock on the door with a bottle of red and try out luck.

We've booked the Christmas break in Levi, Finland.  15 mile north of the Arctic circle.  Snowboarding the the dark, northern lights, reindeer.  Going to be nuts, all are welcome obviously!  Going for our whitest Christmas ever!!