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As mentioned in the last entry, the traffic situation in Brisbane is still chaotic. The Riverside Expressway has been closed the past two days, and looks to remain closed to at least tomorrow, with still no definitive word from the government on when to expect it reopened.

As a result, the past two days I have caught the train into work to avoid the road mess. Queensland Rail have been pretty good, adding more services to cope with a lot more people taking the trains. The trains have been pretty full (standing room only), but still running mostly on time. … Read more →

This afternoon in Brisbane, the traffic version of a full-blown disaster played out. Just before the afternoon peak/rush-hour, the government decided to close the Riverside Expressway (see webcam shot right), which for the out-of-towners is the main arterial freeway leading into and out of Brisbane City and the central business district (CBD).

Anyone who has ever lived in Brisbane will tell you how much of a massive event this is. The result was total and utter traffic chaos on a scale that I have never seen before. Not only because of the closure, but that it happened almost immediately before … Read more →

The regulars will notice that things may look a little different. I've just completed a minor redesign, mainly just overhauling the site header.

Since the implementation of the last design, although it was nice and simple, I knew it was a little... boring. So with the help of the very patient and wonderful Mrs (who is really good at the graphic stuff btw), we've made the site header a little snazzier.

I've put in a gradient background that seems to be the fashion recently, as well as jazzed up the title of both the site and the page. The page … Read more →

It's been a strange week for me. Very strange in fact. I really can't remember the last time this has actually happened. 'Just tell us already!!', i hear you exclaim.

Okay: this week I went the whole business week (from the start of business Monday to the end of business Friday) without touching a computer at home. I really can't remember the last time when I have gone so long at home without using a computer.

Each night after work it's been a pretty hectic. Although my home 'computer fast' started off unintentionally, by Wednesday and Thursday I was purposefully … Read more →

I've been wanting to do this entry for quite a while: a detailed mini-biography of how I ended up in the field of work I am currently in. You are forewarned that this will be a long post; lifeblogging follows at the end.

Contrary to the usual practice, I did not always know that I wanted to work with computers. Quite the contrary: I had actively discounted it on many occasions.

Anywho, I get a bit ahead of myself. Back in the high school days, most students are eventually confronted with the quite daunting task of choosing the subjects that … Read more →

For some reason i'm not feeling the best at the moment, I feel really strange. Anywho, today whilst going into the City for lunch, we unknowingly stumbled upon the Footballroos (Socceroos) doing a public thing in the Queen St Mall ahead of their friendly against Paraguay in town on Saturday night. Nearly all the big names were there, except of course for Harry "I'm only allowed to play 5 games in a season" Kewell (who is really out injured, and of course is totally useless anyway). To your right is a really dodgy photo i attempted to take with my … Read more →

Typing this out listening to the new Weird Al album that I finally just bought (or should I say that my wonderful wife got for me). Needless to say, it's pretty good.

I guess i've been slack blogging-wise over the past week, not blogging in six days. Truthfully, over the past week I really haven't spent that much time in front of the computer at home, which is really strange, because i would say (and i'm sure the wife would grudgingly agree) that I spend most of my time at home in front of the computer.

Anywho, a lot of … Read more →

I've stumbled upon a few hilarious spoofs/parodies lately. First up is Apple and their 'Get a Mac' Mac vs PC ads. These piss me off. Luckily, some guys have developed a set of funny spoofs that manage to pay out nearly everybody involved (Warning!: NSFW, language etc.) . Gold.

The king of parodies and spoofs, Weird Al Yankovic is releasing his next album here in the next few days (see previous entry). The latest video off the album is a parody of the song Ridin by Chamillionaire. The video, and song are both hilarious. See Chamillionaire's original … Read more →

I really don't like Mondays. Really. In fact, I would even go as far as to say I hate Mondays, and recently it's not only because I have to return to work after a weekend. It seems that recently, a lot of things manage to stuff up on Mondays. I don't know if the computers, after starting to work from a weekend off, can also have a "case of the Mondays", but if so, this week they had a doosey.

For some reason at around 11am all network traffic ground to a halt. That meant no working files, … Read more →

It always makes me feel old when I criticise things that are currently popular or in fashion (such as music, clothing, fashion, style, etc). Probably the biggest thing that has pissed me off in recent history regarding this sort of thing is the recent fashion of making everything white. Some things I can understand, but the whole 'trendy white' 'thing' really gets to me.

Led in recent years by Apple, who currently sell nearly everything they produce in white, there are just some things that should never be white. Example number 1: a keyboard or mouse. WTF? Even black keyboards … Read more →