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 | brad | 2129 |  | emma | 1895 |  | jake d | 951 | | 4. | Lala | 884 | | 5. | phill | 780 | | 6. | myrtle | 405 | | 7. | hijump | 218 | | 8. | Del | 199 | | 9. | muppet | 41 | | 10. | hot_bunni | 24 |
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 |
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 My beautiful daughter Emma found this funny animated gif thingie of Homers very cool little Spider Pig. If you have no idea what it's about then you need to go see the Simpson's movie!
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 |
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 Another month has gone by so I'll post another share trading update. I don't know if anyone else is interested in this stuff, but I want to document it anyway because I'm sure I'll look back on this one day and laugh. I just hope I'm financially comfortable when I do the laughing! This hasn't been a very good month, but I'm still well ahead on where I'd be if I'd just left the money in the bank. I bought shares in Mine Makers (MAK) and Anglo Australian (AAR). Both are mining companies, but Minemakers is interesting because they have discovered Uranium in Tasmania! I sold my Gunns (GNS) shares for a loss this month. I had to put my own personal thoughts aside when I bought Gunns shares and now I wish I had let my heart speak a bit louder than my calculator. Other than the Gunns loss things were going OK until the American market took a big dive last Friday. The Aussie market followed suit on Monday and has struggled to recover all week. I lost over $1000 in the first 30 minutes of trading on Monday which was a bit scary to watch! The TV news people were saying that it was the biggest single day drop since 9/11. Perhaps I'm stupid, but I still don't understand how a drop in housing sales in America can wipe out billions of dollars from the Australian market. Here is the updated graph;
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Saturday, 28 July 2007 |
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I received an invitation to attend a special announcement by David Bartlett the Minister for Education about the new Kingston High School that was held yesterday at the Kingborough Sports Centre. I wasn't too sure what to expect, but I assumed he would just re confirm his Governments commitment to the project and announce the actual location within the Sports Centre grounds. When I arrived I was confronted by more "important" people in suits than I have ever seen before. All of the television networks had cameras there and there were heaps of newspaper photographers as well. There were even radio people there with microphones and recorders. There were names like Michael Hodgman, David Bartlett (of course), Kevin Harkins and Nick McKim as well as the Mayor and a heap of councilors. The Minister, the Mayor and the Principal all went for a walk across the grass for the benefit of the cameras and then we moved inside the soccer club rooms out of the cold. There were a heap of Kingston High students inside to serve food and drink and we were greeted by some awesome singing and music that certainly wasn't expected. These students were a credit to the school and their parents should be very proud of them! The Minister made his speech confirming the project was going ahead on the patch of land to the left of the road that leads towards the sports centre. The Mayor (who happened to be in charge of the pediatric intensive care unit at the Royal Hobart Hospital at a time when Donna and I needed it the most) gave his speech and surprised a few with talk of a pretty big redevelopment of the whole area including a performing arts centre. Then Helen Gourley our Principal gave her speech and I was a bit surprised but very grateful to hear her thank me by name (amongst others) for the work that we did at a time when it was looking as if the new school could be dropped. I was also very glad to hear Helen mention Sue Livingston as she has made a huge contribution. Of course Lex McIndoe's efforts were also mentioned. Lex was the Chairperson of the School Association during this period and was the driving force behind our combined effort. The Mayor and the Minister then signed a Heads of Agreement document before we were served food and drink by the KHS students whilst their mates played more music. It was nice of the Mayor and the Council General Manager to come up to me to thank me personally for the small part that I played. I was determined to have a chat with the Minister before he left so I wandered over and thanked him for his commitment not only to this project, but also for ensuring that no other school would suffer funding cutbacks. I guess it remains to be seen if this actually eventuates. He did make an unusual comment to me that is worth recording here. He said "Phill, this is a great result for everyone, every child wins a prize". I happened to know (from a mate of his) that he was traveling up to Launceston on Sunday to watch the Hawks and the Kangaroos play at York Park, so I left him with the comment "I hope you enjoy the footy on Sunday". You should have seen the "how the heck does he know that" look on his face! It's a pity that the date has been moved back a year. This wasn't made very clear at the time as the Minister just mentioned the old 2010 date, but what he failed to mention was that instead of opening at the start of the 2010 school year, the keys will be handed over to the Principal at the end of the 2010 school year. That means that as long as nothing slips Brad should move in for year 10 and will be amongst the first ever school leavers from the new building.
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Saturday, 28 July 2007 |
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I don't know about you, but there is a little part of me that is kinda curious about what other people might be searching for on Google. I have no idea how I ended up there, but today I stumbled upon a way to find out. What's more, I was very surprised with some of the results. Which Tasmanian town do you think would be the most searched for of all time at Google? Yep, it's Kingston! Devonport is second and Hobart is a distant 5th. If you don't believe me then see it for yourself by clicking here. Other search engines give you even more information. AOL for instance let you know that the hottest search keywords at the moment are OK! Magazine', Skip Prosser and Oscar the Cat. Google have another site with a really freaky name that says these are the most popular Australian search keywords at the moment; i killed the prom queen, krispy krem, My Chemical Romance, sophia bush and cirque du soleil.
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Thursday, 26 July 2007 |
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 When I built my own funky new computer the video card came with a free game. It was Peter Jackson's King Kong and it sucked. The first thing you had to do in the game was climb some rocky stairs and enter a cave. Try as I might I just couldn't do it because the graphics were stuffed and the character would jump, stutter, go black and generally misbehave. Once or twice I did manage to enter the cave, but then you had to protect yourself against a heap of crabs, but because of the stuffed graphics you couldn't see the crabs and I kept dieing. When I built Donna's new computer Brad told me that Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) would go weird sometimes with his character changing to a different colour. He also had trouble with Knights Of The Old Republic (KOTOR) and Mount and Blade. When you do a Google search for these issues you find heaps of other people with the same problem, but it's really hard to find a solution or fix. Here it is (warning, techy geek talk coming up)! The one thing that was common between our two computers was that they both used an AMD X2 dual core CPU. There is a known problem with some games and dual core CPU's, and in particular AMD X2 dual core CPU's. If the game is written to bypass the operating system and obtain it's timing directly from the CPU, and the PC is using a dual core CPU, then sometimes the time stamp will come from one core and at other times it will come from the other core. Because the time stamps on the two cores aren't linked in any way this causes real issues for the game in question and results in poor graphics performance, incorrect colours, jerky movement and general bad stuff. If you Google for problems with the King Kong game you will find heaps of people saying that the game is garbage and should just be thrown out. That's not the case at all. All you need to do is download a simple little patch from the AMD website and all of your problems will be solved (maybe not all of your problems, financial, love, stress etc issues will probably remain). This official AMD patch synchronises the time stamps on both cores every now and then to ensure that games written for single core CPU's work properly. The AMD dual core optimizer patch (optimiser for us Aussies) can be downloaded from here. Just remember, this is only for AMD X2 dual core processors. If you have an Intel processor, or you just aren't sure, then don't install this patch. Good luck!
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Saturday, 21 July 2007 |
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Well the masses have spoken and it seems whilst many of you love the two virtual hairdresser games, there were just as many who wanted something else. I have been sent the makeover game below via email. It's a large download so it may take a few minutes to load. If you are reading this on the home page then you will have to click the "Read more" link below. Give it a go and let me know what you think via the comments form.
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
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 There was a good news story on Southern Cross TV tonight about a student at St Aloysius Primary School in Kingston Beach. His real name is Nic Bonnitcha but apparently they call him Nature Nic. He has raised a heap of money for research into the facial tumour disease that is killing off the Tasmanian Devils. It's the noisy little furry devils that I'm talking about, not the football playing ones, I don't think even Nic can save them this year! Schools all over the state of Tasmania have been holding events to raise money as a result of Nic's work. I have a copy of the news story for you to view here (I hope this doesn't create a copyright issue). If you look closely you will see our mate Tamsyn and it's also another chance to see the lovely Jo with her new hair extensions!
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Saturday, 14 July 2007 |
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People who have never sailed at sea before often have a very distorted view of what it is really like. Sure it can be just like in the postcards or on the movies, but it can also be very very scary. Whilst I've done a bit of off shore sailing on extended trips, I have never seen anything like the photo below, and I hope I never do. It was sent to me amongst some others via email and the subject claimed that it was the Pasha Bulker just before it ran aground at Nobby's Beach in Newcastle. That would make a great story, however it's actually a bulk carrier originally called the Selkirk Settler. The photo was taken by the second mate during a wild storm in the North Atlantic in February 1987. The ship was on it's way from Florida to Belgium with a load of phosphates. It didn't sink!
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