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I've just finished the monthly network maintenance for work. Took me a little longer than expected, but it's over now.

Today was largely uneventful, except for my indoor game. We've had a couple of good results lately, last week we won 4-0, but that game will be remembered by me as a game where I had about 15 solid goal-scoring chances but somehow I failed to score.

Today I was out to put that behind me, and I think I managed that. Early in the game i got a bouncing ball on the right of the goal, chipped it around … Read more →

I am quite literally exhausted. This past week at work was unbelievable, I don't think i've ever been so stressed or busy in my life. The replacement IT Manager is not starting until the start of this coming week (on Tuesday, because Monday is a public holiday here), so I had to spend the whole week manning the fort by myself.

Before the start of the week i was expecting the worst, however Monday turned out to be quite bearable, which actually raised my hopes for how the week was going to turn out.

Boy was I wrong, with each … Read more →

The weekend of distraction went well. I've reacquainted myself with Unreal Tournament 2004, playing online against the people on the Bigpond GameArena onslaught demo server. I'm actually doing better than I expected against the other people on it, and darn it's fun to play again.

It's also good to actually see the fruits of my beast-building with the performance on Trogdor absolutely rocking.

The other game that has fulfilled my distraction needs is the first season of the new Sam & Max game. The original Sam & Max Hit the Road from LucasArts was the first game that … Read more →

I hate to turn this blog into a whine, but that is how I am feeling of late. I've just had the two most stressful weeks of work i've ever had in my life, and next week doesn't promise to be much better.

My supervisor and the System Admin had his final day yesterday, which leaves me manning the fort by myself until the newly recruited one starts (probably in a week or so). I tried to get as much info as I could off the the now-former admin before he left, but I feel that i didn't get nearly … Read more →

Recently I read an article entitled The Death of the Joystick. I have to say that it greatly saddened me, as i was an avid flight/space-simulator gamer in the mid to late-1990s.

Our main joystick at home was the Microsoft 3D Pro, and for all intents and purposes it is/was a fantastic joystick. To this day it has never died, and I only use past tense because Microsoft have stopped updating its drivers, and computers have mostly stopped using the old serial and 'game' ports that the joystick used.

I remember wasting many hours using that joystick playing all … Read more →

Let's start with something definitely not interesting: Saturday night's FA Cup final between Man Utd and Chelski. What a dour match. That has to rate up there as one of the most boring football matches that I have seen in my entire life.

Indoor on Sunday was pretty bad too: we lost 4-0 against a pretty good team. It's the first time that I can remember us playing a match and not scoring a goal.

Anywho, to the interesting parts. The past weekend around here was an oestrogen-free zone. Despina went down south for the weekend, which left me here … Read more →

It's that time of year again kids! Time for another rant!

In Australia we are experiencing a significant increase in the spread and use of the drug crystal methamphetamine; an illegal drug commonly referred to as 'crystal meth' or more commonly here on the streets as 'ice', due to it's crystallised appearance.

Frankly i don't care much for the drug, or for the people that deal or use it, but what continually aggravates me about this is the media, and more recently the government as well, constantly referring to the drug by it's street name of 'ice'.

Even the American … Read more →

I know this is going to sound a little stuck-up and unrealistic, but why do things have to go wrong? Currently we're in the middle of sorting out a lot of little and annoying inconveniences that tend to come at you in life.

Now I know that they are totally insignificant in the grand scheme of things, but it still has the effect of slowly eroding your enjoyment of time, especially the little spare time that we manage to afford ourselves in this increasingly 'busy' culture.

What are some of these little things going wrong? The little car accident mentioned … Read more →

Went back to work today after having Monday off for the Labor Day public holiday here in Queensland. After installing everything on the new computer Friday night, I had to configure it all again, which took most of Saturday. I also played through a fair bit of Call of Duty 2 to make sure that the gaming side of things was working fine ;).

That night we went to Church, and afterwards went to Dominos at West End for dinner. It turned out to be a pretty action-packed dinner as a high-school dance that was being held in a hall … Read more →

Last Friday I finally got all the parts for assembling my new computer. I had originally decided to pay a store to build the machine for me, but because I couldn't get all the parts that I wanted from the one place, it meant that I really had to build it myself.

Last Friday myself and the supervisor from work put together all the parts to form the new computer, myself learning a lot of things along the way. See the new album in the Gallery for some pics. In the end I had my assembled dream: a relatively powerful … Read more →