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Ok, maybe not GOING OFF just yet. But it’s getting there. We’ve had our first two designs submitted already (only started advertising two days ago).

If you haven’t already, go check them out and rate them. You can leave a comment as well!

Also, don’t forget that Without Pockets has a blog of its very own that you can subscribe to! Here’s a little something from the latest entry:

The time is now to get your design ass in gear to have your best shot at scoring that prize. The first designs should be chosen just before Christmas ($750 cash + $750 worth of vouchers to score some tees in the new year wouldn’t be a half bad Christmas bonus!) and so we should have our first tees in store by early January.

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Update: It’s alive!!

Without Pockets is coming along nicely. Those of you who are really, really on the ball might have noticed that it’s now possible to sign up for a monthly Without Pockets email update, and you can also check out the WP Blog.

The site went live for a few select people last week so that I could get some feedback on the design, and it should go live for real and for the whole world sometime quite soon (like the end of this week). I’ve got a whole bunch of posters going to print tomorrow and plan to do a postering blitz of Brisbane on the weekend^[1].

Here is a sneak preview just for you^[2]:

If you have had thoughts of designing a t-shirt now is a seriously good time to get started. If you’re one of the first few people to submit a design you’re in with a frighteningly good chance at winning $1500 in cash and prizes. No kidding. Head on over to Without Pockets for the details.

The Wedding

Ok, I think the wedding is now actually, totally behind us. sigh^[3] Laura put in a massive thank you card writing effort on the weekend, while I uploaded a bunch of photos for you all to enjoy. If anyone loves us so much that you want to have one or more of those photos printed out for your very own collection just email me with the photo number and I’ll send you a high resolution version you can take down to the photo lab to be printed.

It also won’t be long before all those photos are clogging up my Flickr account and therefore the 1000 words section of this site.

Soccer

Both The Derps^[4] and Nobby’s Nuts^[5] are fresh off humiliating defeats, though the Nobettes are putting on a good show so far this season. For more lively soccer updates and a frighteningly bad birthday tale sink into The Oooze.

My own little world that very few readers here care about

PHP5.2 has just been released with a couple of really neat new features. Notably, ZIP file handling and hooks for tracking file upload progress. Cool.

1. Anyone feel like volunteering to help? You know if you don’t I’ll just ask you to help anyway. And if you refuse, well…I don’t know…I guess I’ll just have to take you out of my will. [↩]
2. And, yes, I know that you pansies with tiny little itty bitty screen resolutions might find that image a little too large to consume…too bad. [↩]
3. Of relief. [↩]
4. That’s the outdoor side. [↩]
5. That’s indoor men’s. [↩]

Well, things have been a bit slow around here, but I can assure you that is no reflection of the pace of my life right now. So much stuff is happening it’s really fairly hard to keep up.

Wedding

We’re just over a month out from the wedding and things are all go. The invitations have gone out and we’re getting RSVP’s left, right and centre. There is still plenty of stuff (but just small stuff) that needs organising. Time sure is ticking by quickly.

Without Pockets

I’ve been hard at work on the website withoutpockets.com and it is slowly but surely getting closer to being ready for launch. For now, I’ve put up a pre-launch site, which Tony has already been nice enough to plug over at Primordial Ooze^[1]. And as at today has generated a full 25% of the visitors to withoutpockets.com.

Laura

Laura’s flat out at school at the moment. She is putting on a musical this week and is out at rehearsal tonight. Apparently she told the kids at school today that I’d be there to see it on Friday and they were so excited that they announced it to a bunch of other classes. Apparently they ask about me all the time. They all seem to really like Laura, and I’m not surprised (I do too), she’d be a awesome teacher.

TV Boycott and an Attempt at Early Rising

Prompted by an experiment conducted by Steve Pavlina I’m in the middle of a 30 day TV boycott, just to see how it goes. I don’t plan to never watch TV again, but it’s nice to be avoiding Australian Idol.

So far I’ve found that I’m listening to a bunch more music^{[2] [3]}. I had hoped that I would find myself reading more as well, but so far that hasn’t happened. I just started Memoirs of a Gesha.

As well as avoiding TV, I’m trying to establish a habit. Early rising just seems so much better to me, however I find it really hard to do, so I thought I’d use the same 30 days to turn rising at 6am into a habit. Jiselle told me the other day that habits are established after 21 days, so I should be sweet.

The Eels

I’ve only mentioned them in the footnotes so far, but I’m listening to them right now and I love that band so much that I thought they deserved a bigger mention. Go check out the Eels J Files. You might notice the most played albums over to the side which are conveniently recorded and supplied by Last.FM. I wouldn’t be surprised if an Eels album features at the top of that list soon. To be honest, I’m not sure why the aren’t there now.

1. On a side note, Tony seems to be becoming fairly prolific over there. [↩]
2. I’m pretty bored with my current collection, got any suggestions? [↩]
3. Oh, except the Eels. OMG I love that band!! I don’t know how I managed it, but I somehow neglected to post anything about seeing them live recently. I hope to have that horrible oversight corrected soon. [↩]

I never seem to be able to write up events in my life and stick them here in a timely manner. Soon all my posts may be best categorised before I forget^[1].

So, since last time lots of stuff has happened.

Without Pockets

I’ve started working for myself from home two days a week as of July in an effort to start a new business. I hope to launch in early October just after the wedding, I hope that is a realistic time frame. Look for something more interesting than nothing at withoutpockets.com.au soon. I’m still debating with myself on the best domain name to use. I’ve registered withoutpockets.com, withoutpockets.net, without-pockets.com, without-pockets.net and withoutpockets.com.au. Ultimately, they will all point to the same place, but I will only advertise one, so what do you think?

Adventures in the Underground

Last Friday evening I went into the underground on my first urbex^[2] photography treck. Aidan, Gibbs and I went exploring in Brisbane’s storm water drain system and I got what I recon are some killer shots. I can’t wait for the next when I vow to be heaps more prepared, especially with the lighting kit I take.

Check out all the photos in 1000 Words or with this lovely Flickr slide show.

The highlight was almost certainly finding, identifying and looking up the “Buranda Chimney.” I can only find one other picture of it on the ‘net, but certainly not one of the inside.

I’ve also been to Melbourne since my last post and have started uploading some photos.

1. A category which really does need more posts anyway. I do have at least three drafts of stuff I’m rapidly forgetting just waiting to be cleaned up and published. [↩]
2. A little known (for now) term meaning ‘urban exploration.’ [↩]