Today I had a nice little get together with some Sydney girl bloggers. We meet up at Max Brenners in Parramatta for lots of chocolate and geeky chatter..it was great!
Thanks Riayn, Christie, Fern and Veronica for coming along, it was really great to meet you and chat more about your blogs/sites.
Kelley asked on Plurk last night to bring her picture along, so she could join the fun. I wasn’t able to print her out..but she she managed to make it and here she is enjoying a thick Italian hot chocolate.
Fern and I thought we would share a pizza, and decided on the Chocolate, Banana and marshmallow. Yes, it looks so gross. I am not much of a chocolate person but it really was delicious!
Yummy as it was, it was sooo super messy with melted chocolate dripping everywhere. I thought I was doing well to keep it off my clothes, but somehow managed to cover my camera instead!
We have trouble taking pics on timer with the chocolate covered camera and people were laughing at us *hehe*
Thanks again girls, it was great. I look forward to doing it again soon..and I hope we get some others to come along. Next time perhaps we could do High Tea at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth *drool*
Friday again and time for Flickr Friday.
This weeks theme is cake. Of course I was super excited at first, but then realised I could well be here till Christmas trying to find cake pictures I liked. So I decided to use just my own pictures for this weeks mosaic. So they aren’t overly good or exciting…just mine 
1. meat cupcakes, 2. Cupcake Tattoo, 3. Hayden’s cupcakes, 4. Cupcakes, 5. Cupcakes, 6. mycake
Hi, my name is Leigh and I am a plurkoholic!
The interweb is a buzz with the newest microblogging/social network offering, Plurk. If you haven’t tried it out, you really should. For me, it has to be the best social tool to hit the net in years, it is fantastic!
I tried pownce when it first came out and it didn’t grab me. Gave twitter a go recently and didn’t feel too comfy there either.
So what exactly is plurk? For those familiar with social networks, it is a bit of a twitter clone, but there are also a lot of differences. It’s a super hybrid of IM, forums, chatrooms all rolled into something new and nifty. It can be a bit confusing once you start out, but you jump in and pick it up quickly.
The long weekend in Australia saw a huge influx of users and activities and a nice little community has been developing. Not really intentional, but the majority of the friends I have added on there are Aussies. But I am loving having a wide range of people with similar interests to interact with.
Being fairly new, and with the API only just recently released, there aren’t too many tools for Plurk. There is Top Plurk users, which ranks users (though it seems a little borked, with a few people missing) using location tags so you can see where you rank by karma. My karma with graph your karma. Plurkiverse and Plurkable is a good place for news and info. And there is also a Plurk Firefox sidebar addon. There is even a Plurk wallpaper for those suitable addicted.
What other Aussies are saying about Plurk..
So come on, you know you want to..come and give Plurk a try!
Edit to ad: Kelley has blogged yet again about the fun of plurk. I know nothing about what she is talking about..she was a bit pissed and confused I think LMAO
It’s flickr friday again brought to you by Kate.
This weeks theme is trees. I thought I would go for something a little specific, feeling patriotic I selected images of gum trees. I spent waaaay too long browsing all the beautiful pictures to pick just a small few.
Look forward to checking out everyone elses.
1. Pink Flowering Gum Tree (Eucalyptus ficifolia), 2. gums, 3. Rainbow through Gum tree, 4. Up a Gum Tree, 5. scribbly gum 2, 6. Standley Chasm ghost gum, 7. at days end, 8. Red Gum Blossoms, 9. Nature Exposed on the Avenue
