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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
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Well it's been a pretty crappy day really. It began when I started to hear rumours that the State Government were thinking about watering down their election promise to build a brand new Kingston High School. I asked a few questions of people in the right places and it sounds as if there might be some truth in it. It's all resulted in a press release from the school association (I'm the committee treasurer) and what promises to be a very interesting association meeting tomorrow night. I came home to find the extra memory that I purchased off ebay for the poor old Tasweb server sitting on my doorstep. That was a good thing, but I quickly put it aside when I noticed that the massive big brand new tent that I bought a few months ago for our Christmas camping trip in a heap in the backyard. I'd put it up on the weekend to see how well stuff fitted inside, but the strong winds we had today trashed it. One of the fiberglass poles is smashed and that can only be bad and mean more dollars. Oh yeah, speaking of dollars I opened a letter from the taxation department to find that I have to pay PAYG (pay as you go) quarterly instalments as the mongrels just assume that I might earn a bit of interest next year. Damn, Damn, Damn!!!! At least that memory arrived, that had to be a good thing. NOOOOOOOO. I made a big mistake and bought ECC memory and not non ECC memory. The poor old server won't even boot with that stupid memory. More money blowing in the wind. Oh well there is always tomorrow.
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Friday, 08 December 2006 |
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I love games like this. Have a go yourself and see how far you can get.
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
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In case you were wondering, I used a free (yes completely free!) windows application called Autostitch to make the photo below. The original was actually three separate photos that each overlapped slightly. To make a panorama like the one below you open Autostitch, select the photos you want to combine and click "Go". That's all there is to it, and the finished product is amazing. It stitches the photos together so well that you would never know it had been done. There are no edges or joins to be seen at all. The example below isn't a particularly good one because the lighting was bad, I might have a look around and see if I can find a better example. Check out the Autostitch website here.
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Wednesday, 06 December 2006 |
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Brad played in a combined grade five concert band in front of five thousand people at the Derwent Entertainment Centre last Friday. Emma has sung in the choir at these for the past two years and now it's Brad's turn to defy the odds and show some musical talent that seems to have suddenly appeared from nowhere in our family. Brad played the alto saxophone. There were over two hundred kids in the one band. During the night several separate grade six bands played before they all combined for the grand finale with over twelve hundred students all playing in the one huge combined band. It sounded awesome and says a lot for the education departments music and arts program. It is certainly working. You are going to have trouble finding Brad in the photo but if you look really closely you may see him sitting at the end of the left most row (the end furthest from the camera). 
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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 Happy Birthday Emma  and congratulations on becoming a teenager. Makes me feel a whole lot older, but hey, that's life!
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Sunday, 26 November 2006 |
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 I've turned user comments back on again. Have a go and leave your own comment on any of the Tasweb stories. The software I'm using for it is a bit flaky but we will see how it goes.
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
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This is just plain crazy. I guess you could say that the drivers were at fault, but if you were from out of town and didn't happen to notice the two huge flashing red signs warning of the evil things that will happen if you dare to enter the bus lane then you would probably feel hard done by. Make sure you watch it all and in particular check out the air bags and the windscreens.
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Monday, 20 November 2006 |
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 Last Monday I flew to Melbourne for the day to attend a few meetings. David and John from work came with me. I woke at 3:30am and didn't get back home until 10pm. That's a day that is waaaay too long. The trip over was uneventful other than the fact that I flew with Qantas and they still serve food. I didn't know that! Melbourne cabs are disgusting. One of them looked great from outside, all new and stuff, but inside it was a disgrace. There was even a great big grease patch on the roof lining where the big guy that drove it rubbed his dirty hair. In between meetings we did a tour of T's new Intergration lab where they test all of the cool new stuff that's going into the new network, and the GOC where they monitor the global networks. The GOC was amazing, hundreds of people all sitting in a huge version of a Nasa control room with massive display screens covering an area of about six drive in screens. You view it from a mezzanine viewing area but only after the guide dude presses a button that turns the frosted glass wall into clear glass by electrickery revealing all the people below. Noodles and guns? That was at Tullamarine airport on the way back. The noodle guy that cooked my tea had an accident and wooshed some other guys tea all over the stove. The other guy got really upset and demanded his money back. I was in no rush so I thought it was just funny. Then David had to go through the metal detector thingy so he took off his steel toed shoes and put them on the machine to be xray'd. John and I walked on ahead until all hell broke loose. A big blue light started to flash and an earth shattering siren went off. We spun around to see security guys rushing to the xray machine. We thought it was cool until we realised they were rushing at Dave. He said that the xray screen was flashing a picture of a gun. The lady just pressed a few buttons and the screen cleared, the light went out, the siren stopped and the big guys went back to checking out the pretty girls. We still havn't worked out how to fire Dave's shoes.
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