The Digital Show 2015

Today i went down to Melbourne to attend the Digital Show of 2015.

This show is held every 2 years and showcases the latest in digital technology. The show did have some interesting exhibits.

For example, Olympus had a very interesting stand and gave away a cool showbag as well.

A company called Print 2 Metal showed off a cool new product. It lets you print a colour image onto a sheet of aluminium.

But the best part of the show was a Tesla Model S on display. It was a right hand drive model. I got to sit in it. Looks rather cool.

I was disappointed that major companies like Canon and Sony did not have any displays at all. It was not a bad show generally though.

Car fix at Bendigo Mitsubishi

This morning, I had to get up early to take my car to Bendigo Mitsubishi. A couple of days ago I misjudged a three point turn, hit the curb with my left front tire and knocked out some insulation on the tire well. The guts at Bendigo Mitsubishi fixed it up for me in a few hours. It was good to have it fixed up.

Bendigo Mosque protest day

Today, Saturday 10th 2015, a Mosque protest rally was held in Rosalind Park. There were actually two rallies going o. On ewas a small pro mosque rally and the other was a large anti-mosque rally.

The pro mosque supporters were small in numbers.

The police did a good job of keeping them apart.

The anti mosque rally was very vocal but peaceful. The crows was well behaved.
There were about 8 speakers there including Pastor Daniel Nalliah from the Rise up Australia party.
The United patriots front was also there as well.

Overall, it was a hot day but the rally lasted about two hours. I think they all made their point.

Funeral of Ted Aisbett

Today, we finished up work at 12.30 pm so to go to the funeral of Edward Norman "Ted" Aisbett.
When I first joined BUCO in 2007, Ted was my first boss. I worked under him at the print shop for a few months, before moving into the IT work.

Ted had run the print shop more or less since BUCO was founded back in 1990. He died on the  weekend following complications from an operation.

He had retired from the print shop only a couple of years earlier. he was 87 years old. The funeral was held in Forest St Uniting Church and was well attended.

Grand Final weekend and my nephew gets married in Frankston.

This was quite a busy long weekend for me. On Saturday, I traveled down to Melbourne where I met my brother John and we drove down to Frankston on the Mornington Peninsula where we were due to attend the wedding of my nephew David lang and his fiancee Josie lamb. In Frankston we met up with other members of my family and had dinner at the Baxter Hotel. The other family members stayed at the Baxter for the night.

Saturday was also AFL Grand Final day in Melbourne. Hawthorn easily beat the West Coast Eagles to make it three premierships in a row.

Jon and I shared a hotel room in another Hotel. In the morning John got up early to watch Australia beat England in the Rugby World Cup. I slept through it, not interested in Rugby. Australia won well.

After breakfast we put on our suits and went to the wedding which was help at WhiteChapel receptions just outside of Frankston.

No need to get into details here, Only to say that it was a very nice wedding. Lots of fun.