Archive for January, 2008
« Previous EntriesLong Weekend of Geek-ery
Sunday, January 27th, 2008The above is Liam's new Garry's Mod Server (THEGRID) in the process of being re-animated. New 350Gb PATA drive into the old Dell 5150. PATA is finicky: This master/slave mode plus correct ribbon cables makes the process harder than you would think. Windows XP SP2, Remote Desktop and we are away.
Also, Kudos to Microsoft Activation [...]
School starting: New PC
Friday, January 25th, 2008After success building my own PC, with a Quad-core Intel Q6600 processor: it was time to update Liam's old PC (Dell 5150 with an old Pentium 4 HT processor)
Using the same case and power supply, but a different memory and motherboard configuration (P35 Gigabyte) the build process was relatively quick. Fresh install of Windows XP, [...]
aoeth does some cool stuff
Friday, January 25th, 2008... I forgot to subscribe to his blog. As I owe him a wedding present, I am now subscribed.
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Spot the Error
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Recent 491 Scam email received at one of email addresses:
During our investigation and auditing in this Bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our deceased customer who died on Feb 29th 2002 of a ghastly motor accident and the fund has been dormant in his account with [...]
A New Book on my Boss’ Desk
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Eeeek!
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Battlefield heroes.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008WoW not for me. Never got D&D. Haven't seen a minute of any of LotR.
Battlefield Heroes might just be the time sucker I am looking for!
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Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8
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Steve Jobs. Presenting EOF, PDO, WebObjects, Excel, Windows NT 3.5
In-browser Python: Silverlight + IronPython
The weird people I work with
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Andrew Coates documents the weird people in the Australia DPE team.
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My Dream Machine in Three Acts
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008After spending late 2007 writing about and building my own fast PC - I realised there was a larger place for the story to be told. But not here. It was time to go PC enthusiast over on Channel 10.
The most difficult piece to write was the overture. Knowing at which technical level to target [...]
Waiting for the flickrPaparazzi
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Thanks to those 8 people I don't know who voted for me. +1 to my Mum!
Lachlan, Ajay, Martin, Rene and Russ should really be ahead of me. Oh, and where is Mark Pesce?
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1968
Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.
I To Do Therefore I Am?
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Personal organisational skills. I can not has. They left me some time ago.
Microsoft has released some research on the gender differences of To Do lists.
About 70% of people have a To Do list.
20% of males keep their To Do list in their head.
Mine is a combination of email (whatever is still in there needs to [...]
