Friday: Started off last friday with a ride in a coworkers^{(well we work on the same floor)} Nissan Skyline GTR-V Spec. A nice car, it goes. That was the lunch time drive when had a break in the middle at a nedlands beer garden called Steves. From there went south for the weekend.

Saturday: Parents place, new toys. As my mailbox is far from secure, let alone waterproof in Perth my mail order habits tend to arrive south of the river. Via EPIA 5000, Season 3 of Next Gen, Geforce 4Ti. Also bought a DVD drive from Waheeds crazy car boot sale.

Sunday: Washed car. It was that bigger a deal that I need to mention it. Walan admin meeting, at McCronalds. I managed to score the odd don’t tell me you drove all the way up here for this stare which was mildly ammusing to say the least.

Monday: The Geforce 4 fitting day. Benchmarked all manor of drivers on the old card, then swapped and did it all again. It’s not that often that you get to nearly double your video card driver version number. Tried the Gentoo UT2003 live cd. It’s good, USB keyboard, USB mouse, sound, 3d accelerated UT 2003 demo all booted off a 220meg iso on a cdrw. Life is grand at times.

Tuesday: The day the disk failed. It was (it is gone and the data will be sadly missed) a perfectly functioning 20gig quantum fireball, at least it didn’t go up in a fireball, rather the persistent clunking of a failed drive controller. When I get a chance I’ll try the controller off another similar drive and hopefully might be able to recover some data from it. I’m over it for now. After all it was the disk in my main linux box and most reliable q3 server. Sure it did contain the contents of all of this sites past, present and future (and all the odd pics in zipped BMP format). It had the new layout that never got finished and other stuff. Damn. Now that box is relegated to NFS mounting apps from another box to run them, but that wipes out Windows. At least it has enough ram. Tuesday is also payday, fate it seems is not without a sense of irony.

Wednesday: Testing day at work. Was a late finish but at least testing went well. Got to see some QNX boxes. They weren’t running the free QNX either.

Thursday: Unusually quiet day, went shopping and got caught in a multi trolley pileup at the supermarket.

Friday: For breakfast I started off with the Stewy special (bacon, sausage, egg and cheese toasted sandwich with barbeque sauce), and washed that down with the spearmint flavoured milkshake. After this I got a call that my adsl modem is ready to ship. And later in the day it arrived. This was followed up by a staff meeting with free beer for good measure. Oh and Distributed.net fineally got the secret message out of the RC5-64 encrypted string, see here. Now the hard drive less PC’s may as well spend the time powered off, the other projects just don’t carpet my living room.

Tomorrow and beyond: As Sarah Conner taught us, the future is not set, just as much as we can’t change the past. Don’t know why that came to mind. Tomorrow is the start of the Walan for this quarter, it ends some time on Sunday. Long weekend, joy.

Real Men don’t make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it. — Linus Torvalds

mumble, prepare for a few incoherent, loosely connected blocks of text. This gets fairly deep in places, you’ve been warned.

Let me begin, this isn’t what it looks like.

I’ve moved to Perth and within 2 hours of arriving at my new place, I was being offered dope. There must be something about me that makes me look or sound like a pot head. I’m sure the skateboard didn’t help with the geek image, surely my complexion alone is enough, obviously not it seems. That was 7 weeks ago, since then the neighbour moved out (literally overnight) and life began to settle into a rhythm.

Six weeks ago I started a new job. It’s been hard work. That’s pretty much all I can say, I have good days and bad days but you learn to take the good with the bad and make the most of it all.

Since moving up here I’ve done a lot of thinking about everything. I’ve come to the conclusion that I have too much stuff. Just general stuff too, you never know how much you have until you pile it all up into a car/trailer and drive. Sure owning an above average number of PC’s doesn’t help this, but I’m mainly referring to furniture. Damn I have a lot. Some of it I don’t even use yet I still have.

I’m been meaning to sell the Miro card for a while, and I’ll ebay it shortly once I retrieve the ad for it off stan. Also to be ebayed shortly (once I make an ad) is the Libretto. Yep, I’m ebaying my notebook. The internet front has also had some stirring since moving. Originally I was going to get ADSL asap but I’m just too slack. I don’t even use the net that much anymore so I may not even bother at all. Though I did pull down 4800 meg in 23 days, and the following month so far is about 3500 meg. Perhaps I do use the net, but if it was faster, I’d need more disk space, so it would end up costing me alot more in the long term, it’s probably not worth it. All I seem to do these days is watch TV shows (off divx of course) or DVDs (I’m yet to continue watching Pokemon too). Oh and don’t waste your time watching the 3rd Planet of the Ape’s movies, the 2nd was bareable and plausible (it followed on from the first nearly perfectly) but the thrid was just absurd. (hmmm). That’s my opinion anyway.

Distributed.net’s RC5-64 is nearing the end, I’m hoping to get my ranking below 10000 overall before the end. With an estimated 125 days to go this is just within my reach. 4.5 years is a long time to stick to something.

New burner is good. I highly recommend the Liteon 40×12x48 burner. I bought some more DVD’s too, Back to the Future boxed set, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (for under $20), The Power of One (long story, also under $20). Previously to this, Evangelion: Death and Rebirth (which reminds me, the rip I downloaded a while back (ahhh uni days) off Gnutella was only Evangelion: Death, not rebirth (yes the plot does chicken)) and The Naked Gun series (all 3 of em now).

My 21st birthday came and went without too much of an issue, rather nice actually, it shows you alot about who and what you know. Since then I’ve decided that I do want to travel after all. Places of interest; Japan, USA, South Africa (again). Probably in reverse order. Probably within a year or two, just gotta save up the cashola (which means less pub lunches).

Funny. Etax 2002 crashes when your printer isn’t valid (or can’t be reached). Be sure to install Acrobat before using it if you don’t have a printer.

Cutting to the chase; changes in opinion. Linux: Gentoo. Database: Oracle. Leech: DC++. Lan: leechfest.

Currently looking for ways to supplement my income.

If you got through all of that, you deserve a prize. sorry

I’m a slice short of a loaf !