On Tuesday i started some work experience at a place that i'd prefer not to disclose in this public environment. It is not a dedicated IT place, but it still has a pretty critical IT side.

So that has meant that I have been working full time for the past few days, and as a consequence, in order to look somewhat professional, I have to shave every day. For the past 4 or so years I have gotten away with shaving every second or third day.

Anywho, moving on to something a little (note the 'little') less pointless, last night … Read more →

Was up to 4 last night watching the Arsenal game that ended in a 2-2 draw. Fantastic game that could have gone either way, but Arsenal should have won it as Thierry Henry missed an open goal latish in the game that would have rounded off his hattrick.

Was watching The Return of the King appendices till 2 when the game started.

Went to sleep and awoke at around 10ish.

Tonight was the conclusion of Survivor: Vanuatu, and it was good to see the last man standing with 6 girls all against males and ended up playing all of … Read more →

What follows is my understanding of the Greek concept of logo, and it's pertinent relevance (not 'logo' as is in a graphic, but logo pronounced with a guttural 'g').

There is a Greek tradition for couples, of each person and also their families of 'giving' logo. I'm pretty sure this literally means giving their 'word' to the other person and family of their commitment and intentions for getting married. I think it is best described as the Greek thing of being engaged-to-be-engaged.

Me and Despina had our logo celebration-thing on Saturday night, and i'm delighted at having taken the first … Read more →

While I was down in Melbourne, I did buy a game: Star Wars Battlefront.

Probably one of the biggest releases from LucasArts this year (good company name btw hehe), I am a little disappointed in this game. Mainly aimed at the multiplayer battle market, it doesn't really come up to the standard of games like Unreal Tournament (haven't played UT 2004 yet, but I have got 2003), or the multiplayer modes of the PC version of Medal of Honour.

Both of these games had pretty good single player modes as well, but Battlefront's single player mode lacks a … 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 →

Just back back from the airport after my weekend trip to Melbourne with the family. Since i am pretty tired (i just got used to running on daylight savings time) i'll make this entry short and sweet.

Day 1 Friday: Arrive in Melbourne at around 9ish Melbourne time, catch a taxi to our hotel on Russell St in the city, check our bags and go out. We caught the free city circle tram from Federation Square and did the whole circle. As a side note, although the trams are in my opinion an excellent form for city transport, the city … Read more →

Early tomorrow morning I am flying off to Melbourne with the family for the weekend. I have just packed, and I thought I might as well squeeze in one blog entry before I head off.

I've never really been to Melboune before, so this should be an interesting experience.… Read more →

Went to the dentists today, which was my first check-up and clean in over a year. I usually go every six months but this past year I just haven't gotten around to it. It is normally the case that at each 6 month check-up i get at least one filling, so I was expecting today, after not going in over a year, i would require multiple fillings.

To my, and also the dentist's, great surprise i needed none, which I was very pleased at because I would not say that I have been taking exceptional care of my teeth in … 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 →

Had indoor soccer again today. I'm actually really starting to enjoy playing it, i have really missed playing soccer.

Today's game was interesting in that the team we played against started really well, but after we took a two goal lead (to be honest) against the run-of-play, it seemed to piss them off a bit. After that they got, lets say... really physical, to put it politely.

Elbows, pushes, and late challenges became most of their game after that. We eventually won the game 6-3. All you have to do when teams get rowdy is keep your cool, start playing … Read more →