Something for August

Here's a new post by request of Drej.

Work is fun.

The End.

Grumpy Gamer

Grumpy Gamer has a nice post about Game Violence and Real Violence

heh
O_o looks like ive gone bezerk updating this blog for the moment. call it attempts at circumventing work and a capped netspace adsl connection >_< !! as the great DOMO-KUN says RAAAAAAAAAAAR!

To me Day Of The Tentacle (DOTT) was the best game ever made. It represents the pinnacle of adventure gaming back in the genre's heyday. Chase it up, it is definetly a worthwile game and is something that i replay even now.

If you do own the game, try ScummVM. It allows you to play the lucasarts and other classics on todays machines. There are some nice graphics options that teaches an old game new tricks like looking a hellova lot better.

Have phun.

-- note: image uploading to blogger works nicely :)

Blogger has OMG image uploading support!!!!11

yes, it's true.. FINALLY click to lern how
Blogger Help : How do I post pictures?

in the meantime ive updated a few things;

• links under Linkage
• fixed permalink generation (for linking to posts)
  
• added a Contributor Menu (so you can post new items easily if you are a member)
  
• did some re-arranging that i think looks a lil bettah..

suffice to say.. its 2am, its saturday, and i have another 24hrs of work to do which i am avoiding atm.. >_< yay for database migration

cos i can

Bukkake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

another day another MSN Messenger version...

well you probably be running the new MSN Messenger so here's a tasty treat:

The install is divided into 3 sections, which can be daunting at first. This is what I select;

Section 1 (General Options):

• Remove Billing Information Menus
• Distinguish Idle from Away Users (English Only)

Section 2 (Main Window Options):

• Boost Personal Messages to 500 Characters
• Remove MSN Today Button
• Remove MSN Search Bar
• Remove Advertisement Banner

Section 3 (Conversation Window Options):

• Remove Premium Services (What's Hot)
• Remove Packs Button
• Remove Search Button
• Remove Botton Text Ad Banner
  

Last but not least you can remove the annoying tabs shown at the left side of your contact list. There is an option for that, but some people might not find it easy to locate:

1. In MSN Messenger, select Options... from the Tools menu
2. Select Security from the list on the left
3. Check the box before This is a shared computer so don't display my tabs and press OK

Mess Patch 7.0.0816
Description:	Allows you to patch MSN Messenger 7.0.0816 with the following options: enable polygamy, install custom games, disable nudges, remove add contact label, remove msn search bar, remove banner ad, remove msn today button, fix nickname length, remove white (text ad) space from conversation windows, distinguish Idle from Away status (English version only), remove MSN logo (from main and conversation window), remove premium services (what's hot), remove conversation window search button, remove email button, remove my space button, remove all contact card buttons, disable nudge protection, remove user is writing message, remove Winks/packs and/or nudges buttons and change handwriting tab images to text, multi-language support (catalan, danish, dutch, english, french, portuguese, brazilian portuguese, spanish, swedish, and traditional chinese), enable/remove Winamp support in Personal Messages, clicking your MSN Display Picture in the main window opens the display picture dialog (like it used to), boost Personal Messages to 500 characters, remove blocked extensions in file transfers, remove font button, remove backgrounds button. Remove billing information menus, disable MSN Spaces integration in contact cards, enable multi-line nicknames, sign-in status in system tray menu, remove gleams, disable MSN Music song links, add always on top main/conversation window button, remove user is typing message, winamp support in Personal Messages with TheBlasphemer's Winamp plugin, swap now playing artist and song title when using iTunes, Windows Media Player or Winamp, add sign-out button to upper panel which displays the new Passport.net logo, hide personal messages in contact list, remove webcam icon from To: bar and added Korean language support.
Creator:	Rolando featuring theunknown, Koen & TheBlasphemer
Version:	7.0.0816 (2nd version, July 10th 2005)
Documentation:	http://www.rolandunderg.net
Instructions:	Make sure you are patching an original unmodifed MSN Messenger. If you want to patch MSN Messenger more than once don't forget to restore your backups each time.
Download Agreement:	Patching MSN or Windows Messenger infringes Microsoft's Terms of Use. Downloading and installing this software is your own rational choice and Mess.be is not responsible in any way.
Download Link:	Mess Patch 7.0.0816 or from Mess.be > MSN Messenger Downloads > MSN Messenger Addons, Bots, Tools & Tweaks > Mess Patch 7.0.0816

thank you mess.be and matthijs.net

things things and stuff

well yea, you got a point james, but you know, stuff.

buzybuzy with work lately which has killed my cravings to be on a pc. i think 15hrs is enuf in a day... but then again it hasnt completely stopped me.. you see a *magical* word called anime ;)

anime series that has kept me sane these past few weeks:
Elfen Lied
Genshiken
Great Teacher Onizuka
Paranoia Agent
Planetes
Shingetsutan Tsukihime
Tenjou Tenge
Trinity Blood

better than watching tv.. oh and i finally finished GTA:San Andreas. pretty good game, the only downfall i think was that they could of incorporated more of the sidequests into the main plot. and actually tested the game completely using the keyboard and mouse (driving school is impossible to complete -- 3 key lockout... and flying is a *ARRG* disable mouse flying)

i love lamp

hello nice guy!!!11
i like to be a1 super-american style!
ok boss, let's talk!!!
i copy for you ep 1-7 of AMerican Dad!
super-ok!
^_^

time and me.... meh

sleep or the inability to.. its crappy.. makes me feel.. pretty much like this *shrug* guess it explains the dancing bacon

24 Season 4

Ooh.. ahh.. Just finished watching season 4 of 24. Mega!

things actually do (eventually) happen in diggers

holy moly.. broadband.. my feeble broadband skillz have only allowed me to download just over 1.2 gig in the last 24 hrs.. (on a 512 link from netspace) *shrug* so far so good i guess..


in other news the Battlefield 2 demo is out (remember battlefield 1942) and lo and behold... i cant play it.. not enuf pixelpower on my pc eh..

Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

guess im stuck with playing GTA: San Andreas :) :) :)

*edit* wowzers jimmy! i just remembered my damn laptop has a Radeon 9600!!!!!!!!111

so many games, so little time..

tis the season to be jolly

it's that time of the year again :D:D:D:D:D:D

a conundrum if you will (and a bit of a whine)

aah i have a great conundrum.. first let me begin.. from the beginning

many many moons ago.. say september 17 2004 i ordered many an anime box set from dvdsoon.com some arrived some did not.. and since then, i have been waiting.

today i waited no longer and cancelled the remaining orders as they updated the status for the dvds i wanted to out of stock. thanks. thanks a bunch.

so anyway. i now have a bit of cash i can use to buy something from their site (which ive normally had no problem with btw -- i was just after some rare items) and decided with the arrival of my broadband connection that i will get those movies using alternate means.

so. they sell consoles as well i see.. and like.. i want a new toy.. so like.. what yues reckon.. PSP or a DS? *which has better games?*

btw. whichever FUCKER stole my beloved digital camera ON MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY i will personally break your arms (or legs if you lack arms). and dude/chick u suck elephant cock for doing that. enjoy photos of my family and my birthday cake. i cant believe i was overseas for 2 months with my shit everywhere and NOTHING got stolen.. and first night i go out in melbs my camera gets nabbed. thanks guy/girl, thanks melbourne, thanks australia.

OMG!

OMG cpt_shiner eats poo!!!!!!1111

i demand bills email address

lookie here people, yung bill clinton-bush-jr-la has requested to be able to post ere eh. but ze problem is i dont have his email address. eh! someone email it to me or i will plant poo in your mailbox. i know where you live.

and in tech news..

"In response to Toshiba's 45 GB triple layer HD DVD, TDK has announced a quadruple layer BluRay disc, holding 100 GB."
from www.doom9.org

i think this is almost getting out of hand.. although none of these fools creating this tech i bet are paying any attention to access times and read write speeds

omg rofl japan has absolutely no accomodation!!

well talk bout learning things the hard way eh.. japan is like booked solid. youth hostels need to be booked 2 weeks in advance.. hotels need a minimum of 1 to 2 days.. obviously the cheaper ones need more eh..

first time i tried to change my flight back to melbs for an earlier one, went thru quantas, and they told me "screw you we dont care, go buy another ticket to aus if you wanna go home early".. so like.. after that was over it was too late to get a hotel *ANYWHERE* so i ended up sleeping at the airport.. which was interesting. airport closes at 11pm.. theres no trains, buses, taxis from there after that time either.. so it was lights out.. with security checking me and about 20 others passports 2 times (fair enuf its their job with all that gay terrorism shit anyway) so basically smoked ciggies all night and chatted to some jap guy that missed his last train. he was pretty cool, lives in NZ and was laid back compared to the rest of the ppl, so at least i ended up making a new freind eh.

well after 2 hours sleep that night and waiting to about 9am for breakfast etc i booked myself at a hotel nearby for a couple nights.. (which i just left on my way to visit anthea thanks to froggies help).. over there they had everything but i just slept almost solid for the 2 nights

weather isnt bad but aint great atm.. bout 25C every day but overcast.

ah went to like some center of tokyo.. talk about BUSY.. never seen so many ppl trying to cross the road in my life. took a movie of it.. bout 2-3000 ppl crossing the road every 1.5 minutes.. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall day.. i sat up in the starbucks (bleh) that overlooked this intersection to take the movie.. but man.. after watching it repeat about 4 or 5 times i started feeling sick (mebe the sheer amount of ppl) strangely enough there wasnt that much traffic hmm bizzaro.. but then again.. there wasnt any parking either heh..

anyway i am coming back early cos these accomodation shenanigans are causing me to stress more than enjoy myself.. be back in melbs on the 28th.. got a ton of pics and some great memories.

byeeee

omg rofl im lost as in japan!!

well just arrived from japan from ljubljiana (thats in slovenia you idiots) and yeh hmmz.. 14 hr travel time total..

note to other fools going to japan on a whim, book hostels early if u want to stay there aight? cos the're fully booked.. oh.. and rail transport.. OMG SOOO EXPENSIVE! got a direct train leaving soon to tokyo from narita airport and itll cost me like almost 300$au

what else.. yeah hmm.. i miss you guys for some stupid reazon.. but i will get to see you all soon eh.

saying goodbye to my grandparents was hard... very.. my grandad is 84 this year and my grandma 80.. who knows if i will ever get the chance to see them again.. ah.. but thats the way it is i guess.. sigh.. living on the complete opposite side of the planet kinda makes it hard to meet your "old oldies" (as they say in slovenian) ill miss them, they're good kids.

anyway.. im off.. finally booked me a hotel etc at the airport wich was very helpfull. what else.. jap chicks are hot ;)

ciao for now!
-andrej

The Gibson SG

Special. Plays like a dream. Double humbucker. Deep red wood finish.

Rock n Roll.

what issit we ave ere then?

greetings from london humons

-- begin report --

day one:
what a strange place.. found this thingy on the ground and like now i put it in my eye. it is fun. i think it talks to me. beer makes the pain go away, like the locals, constantly hiding indoors even if there is suinshine outside in their public urban beer secreeters (p.u.b.s). i met with humon #3314, callsign kristy. had a laugh for a bit and parted. she kindly left me a blueprint diagram for the "underground", a archaic tunneled rail system. trains come every 5 mins to wherever you want.

day two:
after wasting the daytime. the time came to check progress on humon test subject #55223-1a, callsign owen. he is a faithful humon, and endlessly persues a daily ritual of ingesting large quantities of "beer". "fosters" does indeed taste different here, and many londonites actually like it. i think as owen put it best, its a hybrid between a crown larger and a vb. interesting. owen remains slightly insane, which is a good sign as i was hoping. we proceeded to drink with 2 of his humon collegues, which may warrant becoming test subjects themselves. the thingy i have placed in my eye refferes to itself as "itch". this disturbes me. i medicate myself and those humons around me with beer to try and disinfect the area.

day three:
hangover. the cure is apparently a bland greasy breakfast that has no flavour and tastes nothing like the ingredients they claim are contained within the fat wobbling on my plate. it is palletable with a lot of salt. time moves a little slower today. itch thinks it is wise to do stuff, i think otherwise. humon "kristy" invites me over for some dinner. her cooking abilities are adequate. drank wine beverages and met a "house mate", itch and i find the thought of mating with a dwelling quite strange.

day four:
today.. had a slightly greasier breakfast for no reason as for some reason itch felt like it. i think itch wants to shop, i cannot find a good reason against that suggestion. meeting up with humon #8826, callsign hong today. must wait untill the humon competes it's daily work cycle.

-- end report --

that is all.

aHA!

The Gibson SG is mine!

That is all.

oweeeeeeeeeeennnn

owen you drunken hippy.. i reckons u gave me the wrong mobile nummer for ye!! ill be in london on the 19th of april (in 2 days) and leaving on the 25th to go back to slovenia.. send me a sms that i kno u kno stuff.. this post will be cloned in an email+++

raaaaaaaaarrrr!!! i now search for beer

in the land of chocolate all is not as it seems

first, chunks.. u are a goon ..
Is it possible to just browse or search blogs without logging in?
err that blue bar on the top of every page is your answer

ok
now
chocolate
its like
tasty

atm i am in switzerland, after a brief rumble in slovenia for 3 weeks. staying here mit froggy and veronique. why u ask? simple. they are sexy.

my name is andrew, i am invading this thinggy thing of andrej's. Sorry have nothing important to say except DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE.

uhuh. interesting there. ok. ummmmm.. i really dont know what to say except that i am still alive. semi sober most days and have had the opporunity to see a shitload of places and spend some time with some wonderful people.

ciao for now.

love andrej.

blogger?

Is it me or have blogger and blogspot removed any sort of directory listing?
Is it possible to just browse or search blogs without logging in?

What's the deal!?

spam is everywhere

just today i was doing a bit of reading and what you know.. blogs are getting spammed hardcore. its actually quite sad..

check out this evolution developer entry blog, well i mean the comments left behing by ze spamzoids

Kudos to Onelink?

A couple weeks ago, my monthly ticket was overwritten by a bloody stupid ticket machine... Two weeks gone! Just like that. The bus driver told me to ring Metlink. Metlink told me to ring Onelink. Onelink gave me their website address.

I downloaded a refund form, filled it out and sent it off with my defective ticket. Then today, in the mail, I got a letter from Onelink - a cover letter apologising for the inconvenience and two bonus weekly zone 1+2 tickets. I could've done with refund money but I'm not complaining.

So... kudos to Onelink. One week turnaround time. Not too shabby...

i like cars, cars like me, and then they explode

indeed. cars eh. funny things with four wheels that suck most of your moneys away and some people become addicted to changing bits here and there on them.

well u never know when itll break down right?
yea well u can get it serviced regularly (~800+$AU a year) doesnt make them cheap, but maintenance definetly keeps them going better. Also making sure u have rego and mandatory 3rd party insurance (another ~800+$AU a year) isnt much fun either.

well yesterday my car decides it wants to screw up a head or gasket on one of the cylinders (its sucking in water with the feul) for no apparent reason. fun.. i am car-less and i detest public transport.

im a little more than annoyed since i just had its 100,000km service about 4000kms ago and there was apparently nothing wrong with it.. makes you think.. well at least makes me think of killing my mechanic.. but then again.. its hard to find one you trust (not to mention get rid of a dead body).

bodyless musings

VRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!

hillarity...

good old MS chucking in a 1337speak dictionary for the not so technologically minded have a read.. it is hillarity! http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx

mark wasn't soo lucky this morning. some idiot driver decided to turn into him with no warning whilst travelling the wrong way. victoria = 120+ mm of rain in the last 24 hrs.. yaay for flash flooding

that granny is hardcore

Happy Festivus!

nt

something still haunting me in the back of my mind..

Even tho im very happy with my dell laptop, i still wonder sometimes what life would of been like if i had just shelled out the extra cash and bought that Apple PowerBook and started using OS X hmmm..

here's an article of a guy who's been seduced by the dark side of the force...

random quote from article: "It's like seeing a girl you made fun of in school and now she is hot 10 years later"

thanks osnews

bees get slaughtered

a sad sad day it is when 12 million bees get slaughtered because of stupid humans. One day my bee friends, we will take over the world! then, THEN! we will watch the humans carry the honey around! mUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

this thing is just super-cool

indeed!
Connect 2nd monitor via the *Network*
Yeah, you can buy the second video card for your PC and crowd another monitor onto your desk. This allows you to attach the 2nd (and 3rd) monitor, that belongs to another PC, via the LAN.

See the demo on their web site - simply incredible. By incredible i mean i was drooling like a monkey
clicky

The Five Venoms...

The Five Venoms play at the Old Bar this Friday. If you haven't seen them, you gotta see them...

They're simply awesome.

Japan: Sony PSP Draws Crowds and Lines on First Day

unsurprisingly there were long lines for the PSP on its launch in japan.. I want one here NJOWWWWWWWWWWWW

spam + shirt

chunks, this one is for you

Sony PSP (preview release) review

indeed, seems like these things will be in stores across the world rather soon Lik-Sang has a review of ze beast!

YEA!

mutating begins

*rumble rumble* page going through mutation 2.0 *screaaaaaaaam*
this site will go through some changes over the next few days

O_o

heh non political humor involving politicians

webcomix that keep me sane

qwantz a new one i found today
vgcats meow
dilbert as if you dont know
megatokyo one of my favs
monty although no robotman
rpg world good, but slack lately
slackers even slacker but i love it
Angst Technology never late, always entertaining
destiny dreamers also one of my favs, excellent drawings

flying aircraft with mutant brains as pilots?

an interesting article an a guy who has successfully had rat brains grown in a petre dish and taught it to fly an aircraft in a flight sim O_o

two interesting tidbits

Whilest smufing the inarweb, I found two interesting articles linked from arstechnica,

the first:
"When a Video Game Stops Being Fun", apparently a few EA (as in electronic arts) employees have indeed been working like monkeys sitting at typewriters being fed on a drip 24/7. Its an interesting, albeit fairly short (2 pages) read.

the other:
"Clear Pictures of How We Think", an article about some new discoveries how the brain makes decisions using MRI research.

finally, DVDs that will last for longer than a week

Its been a long time coming, but TDK apparently is our saviour as they have created a scratch and stain resistant surface for DVDs and upcoming formats. good stuff.. and about bloody time!

heres a snippet from the article:

Researchers at electronics giant TDK have developed a tough new coating that promises to make scratched DVDs a thing of the past and that will help usher in an emerging data storage format with 10 times the capacity of the current DVD standard.

In a test conducted by CNET News.com, a DVD treated with TDK's coating survived a determined attack with a screwdriver and a Sharpie permanent marker with no effect on playability--a remarkable feat considering how easily standard DVDs can be damaged, for example, by children.

mmm shiny

after i have finished wiping the drool from my face ill post some pics of my new notebook. suffice to say im quite happy with it.

just.. strange

indeed.. the following link is a little strange.. and makes you think, what exactly were we watching as kids?

Dude...

What's the deal with hayfever?
Does anyone have any magical beans or something that will help?

Well... they don't have to be beans. Magical toast is also an acceptable product.

outsourcing....... grr

warning: rant ahead


outsourcing.. buisnesses love it. well i really dont care where a company gets empleyees or contracts them from..

companies are there to:
a) make money
b) provide a service

so however they choose to make this money is dictated by their investors and the like. BUT GODDAMN PROVIDE A SERVICE. recently ive spoken to dell 4 times in regards to my notebook purchase (there was an error that happened with the order. but thats all ok now) the problem is that they outsource their call centers. The *only* problem i see with this is I CANT BLOODY UNDERSTAND THE PERSON IM TALKING TO. look, i have friends from all nationalities and backgrounds (yes including indians) with varying levels of english competency, i get along with them fine, and they're great people.. but for a company to provide a service to customers where their staff can barely speak or understand english is ****ing appaling. eventually the staff and I understand each other, but i GUARENTEE you the average australian person would not have a *clue* what these people are saying, nor the patience to put up with them.

What kind of public image does this show for dell?

oh its not only large US companies that have this problem.. telstra/optus are in the same boat.. just call emup and see how much *fun* it is...

quote of the month

*runs to the toilet* *hurrrl* "close enough.."
-victor @6:30am sunday

ah twas victors birthday on friday, and we finally managed to get him drunk, erm on saturday. it was a group effort. good work all! ;)

on a side note.. still waiting for my shiny laptop/notebook whateveryacallit gizmo..

oh and almost forgot, although this will be everywhere already anyway.. firefox 1.0 was released today.. sweet.. and thunderbird 0.9 was released a couple days ago as well..

im happy to say that ive only used internet explorer three times in the past 3 months (2x for windows update, and once for the --slightly bizzare-- dell website).

my mail is a 100% sucess.. ive used thunderbird exclusively since i adopted it from version 0.7..

TECH: things to always keep in mind

the following link "Applying the Unix Philosophy" applies to more than just unix and coding in C. there are some very important points in it that should be kept in mind when developing for any platform or environment.

the waiting game

well i bit the bullet.. bought me a laptop *cough* sorry notebook as they are now called..

after some hard thinking whether to convert to an apple powerbook, i've decided to stick with windows for the time being. my reasoning was that
1. it's cheaper by FAR
2. i dont have to get used to a new os (which will kill my productivity at work, not to mention to re-learn how to use a pc and a whole new set of interface problems)
3. there is more software available for it.
4. if i get sick of windows i can nuke it and install fedora again.

i guess ill just wait untill i have enough spare cash and time to learn a new os... i will soo you then apple..

i ended up going for a dell pentium m based system which i basically cusomized to upgrade everything.. for an *incredibly* reasonable price thanks to the specials they have going this week. so for under $2500 i end up with a killer system... so now the waiting begins.. 10 days estimated time.. is such a long amount of time to wait for a new toy when you've already paid for it..work faster dell factory minions!

Nervous Wreck gig, 24th Nov.

I have been led to believe that Nervous Wreck will be playing at the Empress on the 24th November.
One of the support bands is Armchair Critics - a band we were supposed to play with at the Yak and the House of Fools.

Anyways, anyone else going to to that 24th Nov gig?

Does smoking have any health benefits?

Does smoking have any health benefits? (from the straight dope)

confusion and hillarity

while trying to understand the "cease and desist" email i received from chunks for no apparent reason, i decided to entertain myself.. and no not in that way o depraved reader.

quiz: Which Nigerian Spammer Are You?

how i feel atm

blatantly ripped off from localhost.be

...IIS going bezerk not wanting to work anymore because it doesnt *feel* like it anymore.. driving me nuts..

The Five Venoms

There's a band called The Five Venoms - probably named after some old kung fu movie. Saw them last night at the Old Bar.

They were incredible. Spinal Tap to the nth degree. Glam to the max! Twin guitar solos, the hair, the leather pants, the works. Plus they did a crazy-ass cover of Queen's song thingie - we will rock you...

Catch em if you can

i soo want Mac OS X

sigh.. recently i have been reading a whole lot about apple's Mac OS X.. and im left drooling..

firstly an opensource emulator PearPC v0.3.0's ability to emulate apple hardware enough to run Mac OS X -- a world first.

a commercial emulator called CherryOS which has been announced to support OS X at 80% of native hardware speeds, but with much scepticizm as noone had seen this emulator actually running and their proof *seems* to be, dare i say doctored PearPC graphics (hell im a sceptic untill i can see it running myself)

and finally very interesting read of "A Month with a Mac: A Die-Hard PC User's Perspective" (link to article)

so now.. im after an affordable apple laptop.. hmm.. but what can i say.. here in australia they cost about 2.5X as much as an equivalent PC laptop.

Should i blow at least 4K of my hard earned moneys??

PSP >>>>>> Nintendo DS

chunks, the Sony PSP so p0wnz the Nintendo DS

i mean.. just look at the pictures...

nintendo ds pics
sony psp pics

Nintendo DS

So... who's gonna get a Nintendo DS?

Teh funnays

> DEAL OR NO DEAL - Series II
> AUDITION CONFIRMATION
>
> Thursday 14 October, 2004 at 7.00 PM (sharp)
> AT: Club Tivoli
> 291 Dandenong Road , Windsor, VIC 3181
> (Between Williams Road and Orrong Road)
>
>
> PLEASE BRING A PEN AND SOMETHING TO LEAN ON.
>
>
> While we endeavor to audition as quickly as possible,
> please allow a couple of hours for the audition process.
> LOCATION INFORMATION:
> Melway ref: 58 G8 - car parking available
> Tram 5 or 64 from CBD along Dandenong Rd - Stop number 36
> We wish you the best of luck and we look forward to seeing you on the day!

I say everyone should go... and win teh monnays!

huh -what!?

Beauty Wasted will be playing a couple more gigs in the next few weeks.
Rock up and it will be fun for all!

The Yak Speakeasy, Saturday 16th October, 10:30pm
The House of Fools, Friday 22nd October, 11:00pm.
The Esplanade (November and December)

Wooo.. check out site, link to the right.

bit of an update..

its been all quiet on the western front here, as i still recover from a rather massive weekend that is. ugh.. why does my head still hurt.. and its tuesday..

lately at work i have had the pleaseure of having a play with mambo, which is a content management system that has won quite a few awards, not to mention the "Linux User and Developer Expo 2004 best Linux or Opensource software award".

It comes in both opensource and commercial licencing (commercial licencing includes support), but i for those that dont want the commercial version, i have found the mambo community vey strong and supportive.

I do have one criticism of mambo opensource though, and that is mamboforge which is a great idea (it contains all the plugins - modules and components in mambo terminology) but each module or component has the *most undescriptive* description i have ever seen (if it even exists). The lack of documentation is also appalling (but at least i can see that there are people trying to rectify this). This, in the end means you spend hours testing and randomly trying out new modules and components in a hope that you find what you are looking for, but in the end with perserverance, you will find it.

*pat pat* good brain..

alright.. i finally remembered why i started writing my previous post.. Ars Technica (one of my fav sites of all time) has just had a redesign, and wow.. its clean and readable! nice work guys

huh?

I haven't been a Melbourne Uni student for some time now...
So - when will my access card and login expire!??!

WHEN I ask?!?!?

It's not such a bad thing - the disabled toilets in the computer lab building are nice.

d'oh

only today did i realise that the search engine by atomz hasn't been indexing my site since the 15/5 !! hopefully this is fixed now, i've just manually reindexed and set up the indexing schedule (again)

apart from this strange behaviour (which im fairy certain was my fault for not paying attention to an email) im quite happy with atomz.

an *interesting* way of making a point

cant say ive heard of this happening before

serious security issue in Windows XP SP2

PC-WELT discovers a serious security issue in Windows XP SP2.
read the article, which is in english for its solution

Flash mobbin...

I'd hate to post again but it seems the next Melbourne flash-mob will be this Saturday.

Register at Melbourne FlashMob.

Rock-a-rama

For those who missed out on possibly the greatest set (so far) played by a certain little band, our next gig will be at:
The Yak Speakeasy (160 Hoddle St)
Saturday 16th October, 10:30pm.

flee from chunks!

i regret to inform chunks that i was unable to go to his gig tonight cos i got caught up at home till 7.30.. grrrrrrrrrrrr,,

now i must flee.. as the gods of vengance shall be upon me!

lost somewhere in europe?

this site www.maporama.com is basically the european equivalent of the australian www.whereis.com.au

aaah stupidity

heh.. cats are fun arent they?

Rock and/or Roll.

The certain little band will be playing at the Barley Corn tomorrow (Saturday 18th) at 7pm to 8pm. There will be a CD giveaway.

The Barley Corn as located at 177 Johnston St Collingwood.

WOOooooooooo

TECH: migrating/converting from Microsoft Access to MySQL for FREE

finding out how to convert/migrate data from Microsoft Access to MySQL for free isnt the easiest information to find. So below are some resources I have found whilst hunting for a faster way to do this. Both these methods work well, and are absolutely free.

• How To Convert Access or Excel to MySQL (tutorial - the bonus being you can use access as a front end to a MySQL database if you are so inclined)
  
• Access To MySQL by bullzip.com (free application)
  

tasty treats..

well my head feels muddy.. so havent had enough HP to update the blog in the last few days

In the meantime download and have fun with Firefox and Thunderbird, both mozilla products that I have come to love and have taken over (yet again) as my preffered Internet and EMail experiences.. Soon so very soon now they will hit version 1.0..

Latest versions
Firefox 1.0 Preview Release 1 (whats new)
Thunderbird 0.8 (whats new)

On a side note Mozilla 1.7.3 was also released to bring it up to par as well.

Rich Maha!

I did some work down near Glenferrie Rd this week, so I ended up going to lunch at some of the fine establishments there. On Wednesday, I saw the Rich Maha sign and thought, "OMGOMGOMGOMGLOLOLZZ!"
So, I went in and they had the usual Rich Maha menu (pretty much the same as the one on Burwood Hwy) except they've got roti rolls with 3 different fillings! They had beef, fish and vegetable. All I can say is that they were fuckin awesome.
Roti rolls rock.

windows xp sp2 mp3 codec missing problem + solution!

finally.. after quite a bit of digging i have found the solution

after upgrading to service pack 2, i coulnt play mp3 files in windows media player. i thought WMP 10 would solve this, but no.

microsoft have a knowledgebase article on this problem and a download to the solution (858KB file)

this can be applied to media player 9 only.
once applied you can upgrade to WMP 10

the empire demands you play games!

NationStates is a very entertaining game.
Its a political simulator where as leader of your own country you make decisions that effect your populace. only takes about 5 mins each day to play (you only get to make at most a few choices) and you see how your nation evolves ;)

check out my own nation if you are curious

quite a funny story

http://cuagain.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$287

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching on magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

- Unknown NOA rep.

webcomic of the hour

VG Cats is a comix i stumbled upon on the weekend..

this episode in particular i found amusing

WinXP SP2

and you wanted to give me SP2, drej...

SP1, I tells ya!

(next gig on 18th Sept... Rocknroll)

cool n addictive flash game

http://www.sticky.tv/game/cyrkam_airtos/

heh..

The Euphemism Generator

Windows XP Service Pack 2 madness

win xp sp2 finally has been released. not without its own teething problems.

WARNING: the cautious should probably wait a week or two as there seem to be quite a few problems being discovered.

i advise you read the list of "products that may behave differently". Strangely microsoft's own windows media player no longer seems to play MP3 files and isnt (currently) listed (use winamp instead it's better anyway). the list seems to be growing as yesterday there were roughly 30 listed applications and games, and today there are 200.

Microsoft Resources:
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2

Programs that may behave differently in Windows XP Service Pack 2

(resolution of) Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack


Resources for Advanced users:
Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Create Bootable CD

Creating an Unattended Windows XP/2003 Install CD (also covers automatic installation of both microsoft and 3rd party applications)

one of the cooler things on the web

bored? BORED? yeah well.. give stumbleupon a try www.stumbleupon.com

just click the stumble button and 'like minded peers' will show you the light to a new/interesting page.. cool idea. specially the ability to add your mates too.


just hope they mean it when they say that whole privacy thing...

fun with javascript

some of you may know the sheer joy of trying to program in javascript. ah yes.. i hated it too. now theres Venkman. a fully fledged javascript debugger. not to mention nice and stable too

get it:
go to www.mozilla.org, and just grab the latest Mozilla release

use it:
Learning the JavaScript debugger Venkman

trust me you will never again miss IE's stupidly unspecific generic javascript errors

Ad-Aware SE released!

you may know Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.. now they have released a new version of the software!
IMHO this is one of the best products available..

Ad-Aware SE Whats New
Ad-Aware SE Download

personally i use it in conjunction with Spybot - Search & Destroy.. but it helps being pedantic with spyware.. specially if you are paying (with time, money and speed) for that ***** spyware sitting on your pc.

mmmm sony psp

the very sleek PlayStation Portable

for latest pictures, clicky

foreach ($dayofweek as $day) {codeLikeSpastic();}

sometimes monkeys like to sleep too.. life has been.. full of code. i mean i like coding.. but not having weekends is starting to kill me

so its time for an installment of dr. bee licker

symptom
too much coding causing brain damage and no social life

remedy
alcomahol mit the human population

ah! so simple dr bee licker.. glad you were here to help!

Well, okay...

Nothing to see here... Move along.

breaking news..

in breaking news, cpt_shiner is missing persumed abducted by aliens....

he has fled the country!! well man.. hope ur having fun.. u should of just touched down in malta by now.

A gig.

Thanks for reminding me, mr. drej.

It's on Saturday 17th July at the Barley Corn Hotel (177 Johnston St. Collingwood). Our set will be from 7pm to 8pm.
There will be free CDs for all! (or at least until stocks last)

Drink and be merrrrryy...

And then...

a shorter url for the... what was i saying?

http://bodyless.cjb.net/

oh wen is el chunkero's gig?

soon is time... but what time is it?

tech: choosing the right colour scheme

choosing a colour/color scheme can be a doozy sometimes, especially when you are trying to capture a certain mood.

i stumbled across this color scheme aid. i find it pretty nifty for all things colour related.

it provides the ability to choose your own base colour, different scheme types, hue, saturation and brightness levels, hex codes and a handy option to provide a web 216 color pallete version of any scheme.

cats n dogs are colour blind rite? WREUNG!

hashmir, how can yu saey that woofie and meowie can see TV?

its simple idiot! read and lern!

meow?

Being a shill n stuff

So, drej, I'm gonna use the blog to promote my own nefarious purposes.

A certain little band that I play in has its next gig on Saturday 17th July at the Barley Corn Hotel (177 Johnston St. Collingwood).
There will be free CDs for all! (or at least until stocks last)

Rock up with all your friends and pets... and drink lots.