I've noticed in the past few weeks that I have been very much enjoying watching the World Poker Tour. It was on Channel 10 (I think?) lately on Saturday nights, and is on Fox 8 on Friday nights. Although the show is just people playing poker, it is rated MA (restricted to people under 15 y.o.) for gambling. It's awesome watching them play and psych-out each other.

As has been usual of late, I have barely had any spare time in front of a computer. The last two days at work was also unusually hectic.

Friday was pretty busy. … Read more →

I have come to realise over the past few days of work that I truly have a love/hate relationship with computers. At times they can be the best thing in the world to use for basically anything from word processing, the internet and email, to playing games.

But at other times they can be the most infuriatingly frustrating things on the face of the Earth. And that can be just using them. At work having to attend to some of the computer problems of the office is doubly frustrating.

I guess it's mainly because that most of the problems are … Read more →

Look ma! No tables! (well... almost)

If you haven't noticed, I just completed a complete site redesign. I have incorporated a more universal look and feel compared to the old design. The header of each page is now the same throughout the site (except of course for the name and by-line), and the consistent menu should allow for easier navigation.

For the main part of the site (ie the entire site excluding the blog and the gallery), I stopped using tables for page layout and completely replaced them with divs, with the layout controlled by a CSS style sheet. If … Read more →

I have made a decision to change my main email account from Hotmail to GMail. I think that it has advanced far enough for me to make the change.

This decision is not really at all borne out of an anti-Microsoft stance, but really a pro-i-like-things-to-work stance. After switching browsers to Firefox, I have really noticed that most of the MS sites, including Hotmail, aren't really totally great with anything other than Internet Explorer.

That combined with a lot of other 'pull' factors of GMail has convinced me to make the switch.

Below is my last email that I sent … Read more →

Lately I have been writing down the things That I would like to blog so I can remember them, but only now is the first time this week that i have actually had some time to sit and type out an entry, and thus I have stuff to blog coming out of my ears!

Warning: This will be a long post!

Popey!! (off The Family Guy (see the first comment) lol)

Of course the news has been covered with the election of the new Pope. The Cardinals ended up choosing Ratzinger, who took the name Benedict XVI. This disappointed many … Read more →

On the last day of this year, i thought it would be highly relevant to do my own 'Year In Review'. Below is the highlights of my year that I have taken from my own blog entries, with appropriate links.

January

- My First Ever Blog Entry: The first entry after setting up this blog.
- The site has landed: The launch of my site as lucascosti.com, as well as the first comments on this blog!
- Breaking it down...: Reminiscing at it's best.
- Gallery finished: The launch of the gallery on this site.
- … Read more →

Taking a break from work to type out a blog entry. The last week has gone by so fast now that I'm working full-time it's unbelievable.

Just to catch up: Sunday played indoor, in which we won by a considerable margin that I can't remember. After that I went over to Rolando's place and played games on his Gamecube. My absolute favourite is a game called Red Card, which is a soccer game in which you can tackle, kick, harass, to your heart's desire, and most of the time the referee won't call it. In fact you can even … Read more →

I promise that this will be my last entry on COMP3804! lol

We got our overall marks for the project, and well... i dunno if they are good or bad. We aced the product development section (i.e. the development and the presentation of the product): we got 21/21 marks, and did really well in the other sections.

For the whole course overall i got 90.66/100%.

this ticks me off a bit, as most of you will recall, i only got a 6 for this course because of the piece of crap grade capping based on the exam result. If I … Read more →

I'm sure Andrew will be very happy at the change in weather over the past few days which is getting hotter. I'm sure he will be equally pleased that today is his name-day, and that tomorrow is the official beginning of summer.

Today I have been building my résumé in preparation for applying for some holiday IT-related work experience. I did have a résumé from before i applied at the supermarket at which I work (for privacy reasons i don't mention where i work, I don't know if you have noticed this before), but it was one of those ones … Read more →

Today the Mozilla Firefox web browser moved out of beta (pre-release) versions into a fully fledged publicly released version 1.0. It'll be a while before all the extensions and themes for the browser catch up with the 1.0 release, but i still highly reccommend people to use Firefox as their browser. There are many reasons to switch over, most of which i have mentioned in a previous blog entry. Try it out (it's only a small download) if you like it, use it, if not stay with Internet Explorer. Go here to download it.

The past few days … Read more →