The Geeky Brit

Yesterday on our way to the blue mountains we drove past the Pelco office here in Sydney. It is only a short walk from our hotel, so whilst my lovely wife was spending exorbitant amounts of money at “Paddys” ( An indoor market), I decided to walk and see the guys in the office that had somehow sold everyone in Sydney a Pelco camera.
The office is not big, and has only been here for a couple of years, but the guys there welcomed me like a prodigal son, in a typical show of Australian hospitality.

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Working for Pelco, I often look for Pelco cameras in new places – much to the annoyance of my lovely wife I might add. However, I have never been anywhere that has so many Pelco cameras. Sydney is full of them. They are all over. Whoever is our sales rep in Sydney deserves an extra bonus. Even in Clovis and Fresno there are not this many of our cameras on public display. Outside of our hotel, there are Spectra II’s. The Opera House is protected by a combination of Spectra’s and Espirits. The Sydney Harbor bridge is covered in fixed Pelco cameras, and at every street corner there is a cluster of Pelco cameras. My lovely wife has banned me from taking any more pictures of the cameras, or even mentioning them but there we go.

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Engadget: AT&T whips up international iPhone data plan, also adding iTunes radio?:

An international data plan is not a surprise, but what is itunes radio? That sounds like a cool new feature!
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So did anyone else notice a HUGE thunderstorm roll through the central valley last night?

Wow. That was one of the most violent storms I have ever seen, like something from the mid west. Lightening streaking across the sky horizontally, and vertically every few seconds, and the rain! Wow, I did not know it could rain like that in the valley.

My poor dog was stuck outside for a little while, and boy was he pleased to see me when I got back to the house.

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