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I just remembered something highly amusing. I got an email from a publishing firm in South Africa regarding the photo on the right. They wanted to use it as an example of refraction in their physics textbook for high school kids. Click the attachment.

A new Falcon was released recently. I reckon the FG Falcon looks pretty sweet, its got some real nice engines too. The XR6 Turbo now has the old F6's 270kW engine making it a bargin and the new F6 has a 310kW engine with a whopping 565Nm of torque. The V8 in the GT only makes 5kW more than the inline turbo six.

The Newcastle Jets have a very different looking squad going into the 2008-09 season. I am very impressed with some of the signings we have made and although we lost quite a few talented players I am confident we can mount a successful title defence with this squad. Hopefully we win the Minor Premiership this time around too. Here's a quick run down of our new players.

• Jason Naidovski – Young striker who came in from the AIS and shows a lot of promise
• Kaz Patafta – Very highly rated young attacking midfielder who was on the books at SL Benfica in Portugal
• Jesper Håkansson – Danish under-21 international who has played a lot of games in the Dutch Eredivisie
• Edmundo Zura – Our new marquee player, Edmundo is only 25 and is a regular in the Ecudorian national team
• Song Jin-Hyung – Not technically a new signing as he came in at the end of last year, Song is a South Korean under-23 player who has already proved his worth in last years Grand Final

And lastly and awesome band that I only just discovered - 311. They have been around for ages but as far as I know they arent really recognised in Australia. They play a sorta mix of reggae and rock. Have a listen to some full tracks at Last.fm and let me know what you think.

The site has been offline for a long time now, but I have finally gotten around to fixing it. Turns out it was something simple :) All I can say is that there aint much purpose to this site.

Looking forward to the first Jets game of the new A-League season. Should be an absolute cracker, we've got the Coasties at home.

Australia has made it through to the second round of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. We will be playing against Japan who we beat 3-1 in the World Cup.

Australia's form hasn't been very good in the tournament so far, drawing 1-1 with Oman and loosing 3-1 to Iraq. It did improve against Thailand who we beat 4-0, however we will have to be playing our best to beat Japan again.

Viduka has scored 3 goals so far in the tournament, probably his best showing for the national team yet. Cahill also strengthened his reputation as a "super-sub", coming off the bench to equalise against Oman in the 92nd minute.

Nick Carle did indeed sign a contract with a Turkish club, however it was not Fenerbahçe as was originally rumored.

Carle has signed with Gençlerbirliği who finished 6th last season. Not quite as good as Fenerbahçe however they have finished consistently in the top half of the table and played in the UEFA Cup.

Gençlerbirliği should give Carle a better chance of getting game time.

Australian media has been reporting that the transfer fee was about $650,000 but the club website seems to say that it was 1 million euros ($1,600,000).

Something I found recently was a site called last.fm. It keeps track of all the music you listen to and recommends you other artists that you might like. I've already found a couple of bands that are really good.

If you take a look at my last.fm profile you can see the music I'm currently playing, recently played and charts of my top played artists and songs. Pretty cool huh?

You can see my "Weekly Top Tracks" chart on the left sidebar.

Nick Carle has reportedly transferred from the Newcastle Jets over to Fenerbahçe, one of the top Turkish clubs. It seems the transfer fee was about $600,000 so the Jets should have a bit of extra cash to splash. Fenerbahçe regularly play in the UEFA Champions League, and have recently signed Brazilian star player Roberto Carlos.

Nick Carle impressed playing for Australia against Uruguay and was seen talking to Uruguayan player Diego Lugano who plays for Fenerbahçe after the match. Perhaps he recommended Carle to his club.

It sounds like a great move for Carle, although he will be missed in Newcastle. Lets hope he eventually gets a place in the starting eleven.

The Jets have signed at least three South American players for the 2007/2008 season which should keep us entertained in Nick Carles absence. They are Argentinians Livio Preito a attacking midfielder and striker Jorge Drovandi and Flavio Barros a tall Brazilian striker who seems to know how to use his head to score goals.

Bring on A-League V3!

Well last weekend was a bit of a disaster weekend..! The weather was absolutely horrible. Newcastle got hit by cyclone like wind and heaps of heavy rain. A lot of the area was flooded really bad.

The ship you can see in the picture on the right is one of the coal ships that wait off Newcastle harbour which broke is anchor and ended up on Nobby's Beach, one of the main beaches. Lets hope it doesnt go spilling fuel and oil all over our great beaches.

I drove out to the Rathmines Bible School on Friday night for a Sydney CYC Study Weekend and had to take detours to avoid the floodwaters and mini land slides. When I got there all the power and water was out :(

Study Weekend ended up getting moved to Sydney and and it all turned out pretty good considering the circumstances. Ironically the topic for the weekend was Noah lol.

Did my first uni exam for the semester today.. Think it went OK (I hope). Got three more to go now, damit!

Its actually been quite an interesting semester. Haven't had to do any maths or physics, yay!