uber big lan this weekend, walan.axg.net. I’m burning cd’s right now so I can do the split da raid array dance. I’ve got space to sink 30gig around the network, but need to burn the rest. Hello cowboy bebop cd’s =) I’ve gotta finish coding the q3 tourney thingo for the weekend. Perhaps I should be doing that now…

IRC is bad. (not much else to say there).

Christmas was good, I bought myself a DV Camcorder so there will be biggest lan in Australia divx floating around sometime after the event. Now the only limitation to my video capture ability is disk space, and at around 12 gig per hour I can go for quite some time right now (over 6 hours). And time lapse is an option too, uber.

SWGN split, our lan (who’s web site is done, but waiting on domain and hosting to upload it) is being prepared for. It will be good, at this stage, keep the 19th January open.

I’ve been working a bit lately, but more full time or better work would be best for me I think. Time will tell. The weblog scene has sorta dried up a bit lately … maybe I should turn the tap on and post more odd pics. I’m still on iiNet, fingers crossed.

Rocky: “It’s a summons.”

Bullwinkle: “What’s a summons?”

Rocky: “It mean summon’s in trouble.”

This ones been in the oven for some time, and considering the temperatures lately so have I. We moved offices a week ago into West Perth, which may sound like a good thing, but it’s not really. I’m not right on the edge of the free transit zone (FTZ) which also sucks. Theres only one genuine fast food joint out here (subway) and a fairly passe food hall. This is quite a shock from previously being on the edge of the heart of the real city, which has all the conveniences of life (all the fast food chains, banks, bars, bistros, crosswalks, bus stops, train station within a very short walk). The flip side is the office is nice, bugger cubes, better phones, kick ass coffee machine (which beeps like a UPS on battery when it needs cleaning) and so on. The only other downside is I need to walk further to get there and with the temperatures lately, damn. I’ve proven that driving would be no faster and would surely be more stressfull, so I’ve decided that the only viable option is (since I don’t have a bicycle anymore) is to skateboard to work. (Cue: flashback to scene from Hackers where The Plague skateboards in the server room (chapter 10 on the R4 DVD)) After new year I’ll see how that goes.

I’m ploughed through the Not another teen movie genre; The New Guy , Van Wilder Party Liaison etc. I also watched some other dodgy movies, one a remake of a movie (note: movie not film) that has a IMDB comment something along the lines of watch this only so you know how not to make a >genre< movie. (Full bonus points to anyone who figures out which movie that was…)

I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on opening day 10am and it was good. I may even reread the book to see what they missed out of it for the movie, I’m sure they missed out a fair chunk but nothing major comes to mind. I now have the books so I’ll probably reread them after the current literary selection is processed. After that I saw Die Another Day on Friday the 13th.

Tony Hawk 4 on PS2 is nice. Oh yeah, I got mildly intoxicated a few weeks back and bought a PS2.

I fineally got some hard drives and it was too late, well too late to load it up with gigs and gigs of movies and tv shows for others to make offsite backups of. As I managed to get free disk space I was able to recover my dead 20 gig hard drive, using the thermal reset (AKA freezer) trick, I have now got the data out of the ghost files. Lucky for me the disk wasn’t full, as the ghost files of the entire disk still take up 6gig and that was using maximum compression. Apart from this, the file server is progressing, though it’s off on a tangent from the original path but it no longer matters, or no longer matters to me. I haven’t bothered to start putting CD media back on (again) yet. I’m currently writing a cd cataloging program to aid me in this, no eta yet, but you will need the to use it.

Redhat’s point oh releases have always been considered bad in hind site, but 8.0 is purile vomit with tree trunk sized pieces of carrot and really green goo slopped around the place, totally visible in plain old 20:20 vision, no hindsite necessary. I found the GUI froze on me far to often to make it usable, and I mean the GUI, not X, X was fine but the panel and window manager were freezing on me often. Sure nothing a kill and restart doesn’t fix but you shouldn’t have to do that. Makes me miss my custom black box patch (which got merged later I think) I used back in the day.

I bought a scanner, damn you Harvey Norman.

Lots of my paragraphs begin with I, that is bad.

Q: [16.11] What if I forget the [] when deleteing array allocated via new T[n]?
A: All life comes to a catastrophic end