Been so busy over the past few days I haven't even had time to blog about one of the most enjoyable and satisfying things that I've ever done with a computer. More on that a little later. (and shame on you if you are thinking naughty!)

Starting on Saturday, I went over Andrew's place to help them with the wireless network that they tried setting up. They had an adsl modem/router trying to plug into the wireless router. I got the wired network working as normal, but the wireless part was beyond my powers. I think Andrew's mum eventually rang … Read more →

One thing that doing work experience has confirmed is my belief in 'Computer Time' (patent pending).

Many people have heard of 'Greek Time' (i.e. the uncanny ability of Greeks to be late for everything by a considerable period of time), but not many have heard of 'Computer Time'.

This is a term I have coined to describe how long it takes to do things (especially development and programming) on computers. If you think it will take X amount of of time to develop, implement, or program something, I believe you should multiply that amount by, say... around 4 or 5, … Read more →

Been a very enjoyable and busy past few days. Tuesday work as normal. Wednesday was of course Australia Day and also a public holiday, so I didn't have work.

I thought that I could use the extra time provided by the mid-week break to finally choose my courses for my last semester of uni. Personally I love mid-week public holidays on a Wednesday. It juts breaks up the working week so well, into two mini-weeks that are so much easier to handle. But I think lobbying for a mid-week 'weekend' would be a bit much.

Anyways, back to the subjects. … Read more →

On Saturday, I spent a mostly lazy day hanging around home. I put up my Homestar poster in my room. I've been meaning take a photo of it and put it up here, but I really haven't had the time. It's times like this that I wish I had a camera phone so i could take quick photos wherever I am and quickly upload them onto this blog.

At night we went to Church, and made a very entertaining exit out of the Church grounds: arm-in-arm we skipped out the gate singing: "We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful … Read more →

Really tired now, I only got around 6 hours of sleep last night. We had relatives come up from Sydney and they stayed till around midnight. It's been non-stop the past few days. All I have done is wake up, work, see Despina/relatives, go to sleep, repeat.

A highlight of yesterday was finally receiving the Homestar Runner stuff that i ordered a while back. Everything is cool, especially the DVDs and the t-shirts that I ordered.

Sleep now, very buggered.… Read more →

A few weeks back i mentioned about starting to read The Da Vinci Code, and a few nights ago I finished the book. Although I found it an interesting and slightly entertaining read, I wouldn't say it was a great story or style, and I definitely wouldn't say I found it convincing. However, it is easy to see that all those people who don't know anything about Church history could find the book somewhat persuasive, if not even attractive. (I don't claim to know a lot, but I know enough to know that a lot of the historical 'facts' … Read more →

Fairly normal working day today, so not much to blog about today.

Yesterday (Sunday) I enjoyed a lot. We had an early game of indoor soccer at 10:40am, and we won the game 4-1. I played generally very poor, even though I did get the last goal. I just kept kicking the ball high (which in indoor gives the opposition a free kick) the whole game.

After that we went to Rolando's place to have another attempt at copying the files from his old computer to his new one after the failed attempt last week. The Win98 iPod drivers … Read more →

I'm truly starting to learn and appreciate the value of the all important Friday. The gateway to rest and freedom, this is the best day of the working week. I have truly been busy, quite the opposite of what Andrew is going through of late.

Got a busy weekend ahead as well, with important things starting to be planned.

I've planned to do an new intro for the site, having recently negotiated an exciting original concept with the site's media and content director (Despina). lol. But seriously, I'm not sure when I'll be able to get the time to … Read more →

On Monday when I went to work I started to get a pain around my top-right teeth. Over the first two hours of the day this quickly developed to what I thought at the time was a migraine. My entire right side of my face felt like it was going to explode. My gums were sore, behind my eyes were throbbing, and overall I would have to rate it as one of the worst 'headaches' that I've ever had.

I had taken some paracetamol in the first half hour when my head was starting to get sore, but this had … Read more →

Wrapping up a fairly busy weekend with this blog entry. On Saturday I did some stuff and then at night we went to Church and ran out as soon as it finished to go to a 21st birthday party that started at 6:30, as Church had finished just after 7:30.

Went to the party, and after we ate etc, they asked everyone to look under their seats and see if they could find anything, and those with something under there had won something. I looked under mine, and nothing, and because there was a spare seat next to me I … Read more →