The Bledisloe cup match on saturday night was possibly the greatest game of Rugby Union ever! I sat at home and watched it on tv. The first five minutes were full of despair. The All Blacks scored three tries blowing the score out to 24-0. Australia fought back and the scores were even at half time. With only extra time to go Australia was winning by one point. Jonah Lomu tip toed along the side line to score the winning try for New Zealand. Not the best ending. The maori girl at work was grinning from ear to ear on Monday. We'll have to wait for the next game in Wellington for revenge.

The was a complete lunar eclipse on sunday night. At 6.00 giant cumulous clouds loomed on the southern horizon. An hour later they swept over and dropped their water. Leaving me to despair of seeing the eclipse. At 10.00 the sky was clean and clear. The stars seemed more numerous than normal. The moon was gradually eaten away by the shadow eventually going a deep blood red. I pulled out a pocket astronomy book and had a wonderful time looking up the star charts and working out the constellations.

I've done a bit more work on my cdplayer. It can now read artist and track information from the local cddb database in /var/lib/cddb and the cdplayer.ini used by the windows cdplayer. After doing a bit of researching I found a place called cdnames that provides a database similar to cddb. I'll try to implement access to both the cddb and cdnames protocols. After taking a look at the cddb code that comes with xmcd I decided I'd much rather reimplement it than try to refactor the existing code.