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I have a new mobile phone. Continuing on from the previous entry about getting the thing delivered to me, i'll tell the story of how we got here.

Many will remember my now previous phone, the Samsung D500. For the unaware, here is a short history of my experience with it in blog entries: getting it; it breaking; them not repairing it under the warranty and me writing them a letter; me getting the repaired phone back; and finally, their very late reply to my letter. As you can see, I wasn't really happy with … Read more →

I've had a pretty crap working week. It was generally filled with crapness, but i'll summarise below.

The week started off with pretty major network issues at the office on Monday and Tuesday. They were really only resolved once the whole server system was completely rebooted, which for the unaware is a pretty rare event for any largish business, and of course had to be done outside business hours.

I think i might have caused the problems myself by accidentally creating a loop in the network by accidentally plugging in a patched network cable into another port for about 10 … Read more →

For the first time in a very long time i've had an almost totally relaxed weekend. Mainly a result of our untimely exit of indoor at the semi-finals last week, this weekend was clear of any external commitments.

Other than the washing and cleaning, we've totally relaxed, watched a few movies, and played a bit of Nintendo.

Last night we went to Church, and afterwards, thanks to some fantastic foresight last week, we already had our post-Church dinner worked out and booked. This saved us from the weekly semi-torturous experience of the group deciding where to go to eat.

Before … Read more →

Nothing really noteworthy has happened over the past few days. Work has settled down into the calendar year (I can't believe that it is March already) and we're trudging along.

I did get Sonic and the Secret Rings on Tuesday (two days early), although I frustratingly haven't had that much spare time to get properly into it. It's easily the best looking Wii game out already graphics-wise, but you don't really have an opportunity to take it all in as Sonic is blazing through a level. The music is so bad that it's awesomely good (e.g. 80s style rock), but … Read more →

So ends another weekend, and again it has flown by without me really taking a breath.

I have spent most of the weekend working on the website for the Church's Bribie Island Youth Centre project. It's almost finished, and hopefully it will go 'live' within the next few weeks. All my readers can have a sneak-peak of the website here. Any thoughts/comments/suggestions are appreciated. Special thanks to Despina who helped me out with all the imagery stuff.

Last night after Church we had a 'going away' thing for Con who is heading off to London to work for an … Read more →

For the last dew days i've been in a bad mood. There are a few things that have ticked me off, but none of them all that serious or significant as to cause me to get in a bad mood.

Firstly, work has been pretty hectic. The other IT person in the company has been home sick the past few days which means that I'm having to cover a lot more things than I would normally have to.

Secondly, Arsenal are doing pretty crap at the moment. They expectedly lost the Carling Cup final to Chelsea on Sunday night (expectedly … Read more →

I've been lazy in doing any entries this past week, so i'll attempt to catch up.

Work has been mostly normal last week. I've just embarked upon a massively tedious task that should keep me occupied for the next few weeks to say the least.

This past week i've also continued upon my two-and a-half-month-long quest to purchase a second nunchuck controller for the Nintendo Wii that we have. Since the console launch in early December, there has been an alarming shortage in stock for accessories. I managed to get myself an extra 'Wiimote' controller and classic controller, but the … Read more →

This Costi household just had a very busy weekend. Yesterday we celebrated the one year anniversary of our wedding. I cannot begin to describe the insaneness of how quickly this one year has passed, but it has been amazing.

Before the wedding, the general consensus from the marriage seminars and everyone was that the first year of marriage is generally the hardest, and for us to be prepared for that.

I can honestly say that for us, this past year has been a blast. It has been the best year of my life, and the marriage has been anything … Read more →

Thank goodness summer TV is over. Why can't any station put anything decent to watch on TV over the summer period here in this country?? All we had was cricket, B-grade movies and repeats of old, mostly crappy TV shows. I'm lucky that I had the Nintendo and DVDs to see it through.

Thus it's very good that, mainly starting this week, normal high-quality programming resumes. It's more than adequately demonstrated by the fantastic all-new episode line-up on tonight.

It starts off with How I Met I Mother, continues with Lost and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (SVU… Read more →

Despite my leaning towards Windows as my preferred operating system, I am more than happy to admit that it is definitely far from perfect. There are some things that, despite being so simple to fix or update, have not been corrected even with the now-released Windows Vista.

One of my main irks is the inability of Windows to allow you to rearrange the order of items in the taskbar to how you want it. The order of windows or programs in the taskbar is set as the order in which they are opened, which can be really annoying if you … Read more →