Our activities today brought us through the Olympic village before boarding a jet ferry that cruised us back through the harbour to Circular Quay. The Olympic village was cool to check out...Sydney won their Olympic bid because they hosted the first "green" Olympics. The lighting towers around Telstra Stadium (stadium pictured, not the towers) all have enough solar panels on them to be self sufficient. They provide enough electricity back into the grid during the day to offset the power they use during the night. The roof of Telstra Stadium is designed to channel rain water back inside, where it is used to flush all the toilets throughout the complex. Maybe the most interesting thing are the poles you see pictured in the foreground...these include the names of all the volunteers from the Sydney Olympics, plus some special poles. There are video monitors in some of them that tell stories like the building of the village, the paralympic games, the torch, etc. Definitely a cool place to spend some time wandering around. From the Olympic village, we headed back across the water on a quick ferry that afforded us amazing views of the harbour, downtown, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. Back in downtown, we caught dinner with a co-worker of Carrie's (Mike, in the Sydney office for 6 months). Was a good time. Mike reminded us that we should have AdSense running on the blog (because that's what Carrie and Mike do at Google). So you can thank him for the ads that are taking up blog real estate now. :) Shout-out to the Google AdSense and Blogger teams.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Sydney Olympic Village
Our activities today brought us through the Olympic village before boarding a jet ferry that cruised us back through the harbour to Circular Quay. The Olympic village was cool to check out...Sydney won their Olympic bid because they hosted the first "green" Olympics. The lighting towers around Telstra Stadium (stadium pictured, not the towers) all have enough solar panels on them to be self sufficient. They provide enough electricity back into the grid during the day to offset the power they use during the night. The roof of Telstra Stadium is designed to channel rain water back inside, where it is used to flush all the toilets throughout the complex. Maybe the most interesting thing are the poles you see pictured in the foreground...these include the names of all the volunteers from the Sydney Olympics, plus some special poles. There are video monitors in some of them that tell stories like the building of the village, the paralympic games, the torch, etc. Definitely a cool place to spend some time wandering around. From the Olympic village, we headed back across the water on a quick ferry that afforded us amazing views of the harbour, downtown, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. Back in downtown, we caught dinner with a co-worker of Carrie's (Mike, in the Sydney office for 6 months). Was a good time. Mike reminded us that we should have AdSense running on the blog (because that's what Carrie and Mike do at Google). So you can thank him for the ads that are taking up blog real estate now. :) Shout-out to the Google AdSense and Blogger teams.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday said the enemy in Iraq is "far from being defeated," but he vowed not to be rushed into adjusting his strategy and gave little indication that he intends to veer sharply from the direction his war policies have taken.
Just wanted to give you the update that the President still has his head up his ass. I am sure the Aussies, who already sent the 10 soldiers they had in Iraq home, think highly of us.
Thanks for the update. The Aussies only have 4 TV stations here, the only of which is watchable is CNN. So we've been getting our regular dosage of American politics, it's all they talk about.
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