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On Friday night, Whirlpool won Best Technology Media Website at the Sun Microsystems MediaConnect IT Journalism Awards for the second year in a row. It also just missed out on Best Technology Title, an award taken out by The Australian, which also won the award two years ago. Last year Whirlpool also won Best Title.

I’m lucky enough to be part of the team at Whirlpool, both as a contributing reporter and a member. I attended the awards along with site owner Simon Wright, news editor Phil Sweeney and fellow reporter Tim Gaden (owner of popular Apple blog Hawk Wings).

So … go Whirlpool!

With the first part of my break (okay, maybe not break; holiday?) over, I am tonight flying out of Perth and into Sydney. Well, not really tonight, tomorrow morning, actually. At a quarter past midnight. Midnight horror. Argh…

I’ve done some very interesting things over the last week-or-so. I took lots of photos — everything from relaxing at home, Habo’s third Pesach seder, a Freo Dockers match, and a sojourn to King’s Park for some scones. All in all a very fun holiday. Full of friends from Israel, friends from old days gone by, family, and of course, sunshine! I even got a tour of an iiNet DSLAM in an exchange here in Perth! (Sadly, I wasn’t allowed to take photos, though.)

In Sydney I’m going to have lots of fun — again seeing friends, and also attending the Lizzies on Friday night. Whirlpool’s up for an award, which should be good fun.

And then when I get home, a bit Yom Ha’atzmaut party at Rod Laver Arena. Fun times ahead. :)

At least, that’s what I’m hoping. While I’m in Perth on a bit of a holiday catching up with some old friends, some family, and some Whirlpool people, too, I thought I’d try and see if I can get a bit of a tour of an iiNet DSLAM.

So, sure enough, a quick e-mail off to iiNet’s very accommodating MD, and I’m booked in for a tour with iiNet’s DSLAM guru at an exchange in the city. I’ll even have the pleasure of going along with Whirlpool’s WA news desk head Brad Peczka.

Monday will prove to be an outstanding day, I should think.