*new* randomly updated ramble.. now updated randomly! v3.0

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Monday, August 29, 2005

Bite my shiny metal casemod

something i know bill will like Bite my shiny metal casemod

Windows 95 remembered

well since it was windows 95's bday a few days ago (leik OMG 10 years and some ppl still run it O_o).. from betabews..BetaNews |

Hot Biscuit Mod and Other Nintendogs Stories : Gizmodo

bwahaha.. yes hot-biscuit-mod


oh and.. to warn ppl. i may get psychotically grumpy for no reason every 1-2 hrs.. ive quit smoking as of friday. grr
i want one now >_

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

doo doo doo doo


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Originally uploaded by ashish100.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

really busy day

been sick with this awesome virus for the last few days, courtesy of last week's plonking in rain (it was actually a lot colder here all week than melbourne). first day back and i'm dizzy and i have packed outpatient clinics all day, oh joy. in the morning team intake meeting and all of a sudden i have two crisis patients to assess in triage, one whom the folks in blue have brought in... i started my first clinic review an hour late due to the unscheduled crises, and then spent all day catching up, and sniffling.

at least it looked like a bright and sunny day.

im looking forward to going back to st vincents. the mental health system is at breaking point in WA, and there are almost no community outreach services to help support people in their home environments. at least its sunny though.

santa(s) in indian marketplace


santa(s) in indian marketplace
Originally uploaded by ashish100.

Monday, August 22, 2005

Sunday, August 21, 2005

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Originally uploaded by ashish100.
gritty backstreets of southall

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Originally uploaded by ashish100.

/me looks at screen
/me begines rambling

yes yes. im at home. yes yes. its the weekend. yes yes. im doing work (yay)
so while "doing work" i found these links of fun

http://www.thisspartanlife.com/
http://www.furplay.com/swg/news.php

/me notices the backups are finished on the servers and my access to coding has been unfrozen
/me flees

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

fish and chips err i mean.. oilcomputer

what do fish and chips have in common with a computer? well a lot more than you think system cooling taken to greasetream measures

a cold day...

that cat site is awesome, somewhere on whirlpool i once came across that crazy cat-as-extension-of-my-shelf-and-keeper-of-crap concept, but it's nice to remember it again. but wouldn't big (albeit sedated) dogs be more useful?

today was a shocking day weatherwise. i am taking transperth (www.transperth.com.au) while my car warbles it way across the nullabor. walking from fremantle city centre to the hospital was ok, thank you umbrella... until the last 20 metres from my building when the combined evilness of 'wind' and 'perth massive friggin rain' (remember, perth gets all of melbourne's annual rainfall in winter!) conspired together... i looked like i fell in a pool and it took a few hours to dry up properly. i think i have a chest infection now, lots of coughing, i feel like there is fluid in my lungs. i am tempted to ask for a cxr, but i think i'll ask one of my colleagues to auscultate (listen to) my lungs tomorrow...

stupid stupid rain

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Stuff On My Cat

Stuff On My Cat nuff said..

cats bloody cats

i cant sleep... there are bloody cats crying outside, two of them. they sound like babies.
i wonder what happened? did their owner die?

gaaaah!1

yeah and on an asian dint

of course im gonna give you the asian take, coz thats what i am,

on the asian dint there's this site ethnotechno that basically takes you through the last 10 years of what was "asian undergound' in the uk and ended up the 'asian massive' in the us...

god i miss the stuff that came out of Outcaste (UK) and Shakti (RIP). Today's label is six degrees. also, on the more mainstream tip, there's talvin singh and nitin sawhney, both mercury award winners.

links:
http://outcaste.com
http://tjrehmi.com
http://www.dholfoundation.com
http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com
http://www.ethnotechno.com
http://www.thieverycorporation.com

the slow but gradual increase in exposure in uk bhangra slowly killed off much of uk asian fusion (another name for it)... but it lives on. theivery corporation also have a lotta asian fusion elements in their music...

lastly this website purely for its funkyness - it's an oldish site now, but i loves it :)
http://www.sharaabmusic.com

edit - how do i make these links clickable? i tried <> but that made them goddamn invisible...

waky waky electronic music eh

Ishkur's Guide to electronic music a rather good attempt at classifying all those genres and sub-genres (theres hundreds of them there) of electronic music with often hillarious descriptions and good samples of music of each.

Friday, August 12, 2005

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Originally uploaded by ashish100.
So like, I am taking over this blog. here are some wheat silos to enjoy while you eat breakfast.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

qualifying myself

i suppose i should qualify my existance by actually posting here occasionally. im sure drej will be pretty happy about this. or maybe not?? my own blog (bahahah) didn't do quite so well at apnablog.blogspot.com so I've decided to come here and ruin things. I guess more humans posting semifrequently make this a better and more huggy blog. bleh.

I decided to invest in flickr, coz I wasn't being allowed to put in more than 8 photos a month, and that's pretty stupid. There's a link up on the side to my pic page. Flickr is actually pretty cool, but i guess i caught the wave preeeety late.

Finished up at St Vincent's and off to Perth on friday for 6 months. Well, I like to think of it as '20 weeks'. Hmm. Well, at least the weather is nice, the air fresh and the commute a lot less.

I think this is enough for now.

Monday, August 08, 2005

Video Game ads online archive

Games, more specifically their ads provide endless entertainment. I found this link a long time ago but forgot all about it till now, CLICKY FOR ALL ADS KNOWN TO MAN. well not quite but its a good start.

i still think this is one of the best ads of all time, just because it doesnt make much sense ;)

Sunday, August 07, 2005

On the subject of games.

Tim Schafer, who created Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and some other classics has a relatively new game out called Psychonauts.
It's as good as anything else he's designed. Highly recommended!

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

Saturday, August 06, 2005

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

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

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)