Here we are at another weekend. I have just finished changing my website's mail client on my computer from Mozilla Thunderbird to MS Outlook. Now that I am out of uni, I want to use my computer to organise the stuff that I have on etc, and Outlook is probably one of the best and most widely used programs out there for doing so.

I still prefer using Thunderbird for an email client, but now that I use my GMail account for basically all my email, I don't really use my website's email much at all anymore, and now that … Read more →

I have fought the urge to go to bed early to write a blog entry.

On Saturday night me and Despina went to see The War of the Worlds. After hearing some bad but mostly good things about this movie, i decided to go see it with Despina, having already seen the original 1953 movie a few months ago.

**Warning: May contain Spoilers! You have been warned!**

I was greatly disappointed with the new version. I felt that the movie was too centred around Tom Cruise's character, not showing any of the wider, global view of the alien … Read more →

I think this may have been one of the first time that I have gone a week without blogging. Shame shame shame.

I've sort of had good reason though: starting work full-time again has taken me a bit off-guard, plus there have been various things that have taken up my time out of work.

The biggest thing of the past week was that yesterday was my graduation. I now have my two valuable pieces of paper. As I promised a while back, I have scanned them in and they are shown below as well as in the Gallery.… Read more →

On Thursday i returned to work after a prolonged absence caused by exams and then this broken foot. In the two days that I have worked predictably I have attracted a various amount of humorous nicknames/labels: Skippy, Hoppy, Hobbles etc.

I'm looking forward to going to Church tonight after missing many weeks. It'll be good to see everyone as well.

I was very happy to find out from Michael at work, that there will be a sequel to possibly my favourite game ever: Total Annihilation.

The original Total Annihilation (TA), originally released ~1998, was the ultimate RTS (real-time strategy) game, … Read more →

Had the second and last night of the marriage seminar last night. It was much more enjoyable and entertaining than last nights talk from Relationships Australia. Of course this was probably due to the speakers and the topics discussed last night. There were so many good quotes that were said that I would like to post here, but unfortunately i can't remember many.

First up was Fr. Dimitri, who was due to give an explanation of the marriage service, but also gave a more general talk on developing a good relationship early in the marriage to set the pattern for … Read more →

Today I had a shower. Shock! Horror!

I haven't had one in a long long time. But before you premeditate ways of avoiding me next time you see me, that's only because of my broken foot I have been forced to having baths.

I'm not really one for baths. When you're a kid, they're great, but when you're a big adult, there's something gross about cleaning yourself of all the crap that's on you, and then staying in that dirty water for a period of time.

Over the past few days, I've been able to put a little more weight … Read more →

Just finished watching a movie called Equilibrium. Quite enjoyed it actually, even though admittedly it probably wasn't that great of a movie.

The plot goes along the lines: that in the early 21st century, the Third World War broke out, and afterwards there was a minority revolution in which it was decided that the root of all evils, such as violence and war, was rooted in human feelings and emotion.

Jealousy, hatred, sorrow, grief and violence are the 'sister emotions' of love, joy, and elation, and both sides of the emotional coin should be anaesthetised for a great and … Read more →

Although I was already 99% sure that I would pass all my courses, today I received the official confirmation.

I got a 5 (Credit) for all of my last three courses of my degrees that I undertook this past semester: COMP3502 Human Computer Interaction, HIST2602 Empires, and HIST2609 History of the Great Powers.

Overall I am satisfied with these results, although I could have done much better if I applied myself better, especially for the exams.

These results also mean that I have officially completed all the requirements of both my IT and Arts degrees, and I will be graduating … Read more →

Still pretty much taking it easy. Something which is also not really normal for me, is that I have been featuring on MSN often... well, often for me. But it is easy to get 'more often' than nothing. hehe

Over the last few days I have been waiting for my results from the past semester. Uni had told us that the results will be released tomorrow. For all the previous semesters, the results have been released at least a few days before the specified 'official date', but this semester it seems that they are actually going to release on the … Read more →

I got the other wireless router Thursday, and setting it to function solely as an access point was more difficult than i expected. Actually, when i come to think of it, nearly everything to do with computers almost always takes much longer than expected. Nothing with computers is ever easy.

But that's another issue altogether. I think that the problem was due to the router not activating its wireless functionality until you had set up it's WAN connection, which wasn't required for it to function as an access point. When I was trying to set it up, the 'wireless' LED … Read more →