Vista Dreams

A few minutes of looking at my desktop and i'm starting to feel a bit seasick.
Deep Ocean Dream

I remember trying out Dremples a few years ago and after the novelty runs out (about half an hour) and you need the CPU its chewing up you quickly turn it off. Granted its using the GPU now which is good but I think if the background is too busy then it will reduce productivity via distraction. The default one that comes with the Ultimate Dreams patch is nice, it's very subtle.

Code Camp Oz

Well it looks like i'll be going to Code Camp Oz this year!

A friend has an unwanted ticket to Melbourne and if she is booking the flight for me for the dates for Code Camp. Yes, i know its in Wagga Wagga but there are some Melbournites travelling up for the weekend so i'm going to hitch a ride.

Should be a blast. Any other Perth people going? Let me know - yet to organise accomodation.

Things I'm up to at the moment.

• Doing tax stuff. Tax agent has been taking aaages and now someone else at their office has taken over and is asking lots of questions. Some of which I've previously answered. You get that.
• Weblogging. I should be asleep, i'm not feeling 100%. Got the sniffles and a pre-flu back ache.
• Setting up my web site again... http://www.littlevoices.com. I somehow trashed DotNetNuke. I have a feeling if you even go NEAR the Application installers on DotNetPark (my host) it trashes the database. I tried a restore but it didn't help, so I thought Ah well I wanted to try out Community Server anyway for another project.
• Avoiding gaming. I want to code and I want to play WOW. (World of Warcraft). Can't do both unfortunately.
• Today I went to a .net coffee meeting, a really good idea. Met some new guys in the .net world. Its a regular thing and Nick has a post or two about it. I was pretty impressed to see Nick did his homework and the cafe has wi-fi! Nice one! http://community.softteq.com/blogs/nick/archive/2007/02/19/week-1-synopsis.aspx for more info about that.
• I just signed up for a beta for http://outbackonline.com/ which looks to be a kid friendly SecondLife. I've beta tested a LOT of MMORPGs. Some of which include;

1. Star Wars Galaxies
2. World of Warcraft
3. Anarchy Online
4. The Matrix
5. D&D Online
6. GuildWars
7. Possibly others...

Ones i've played'

1. Active Worlds (kind of like SecondLife I believe)
2. Everquest
3. Everquest 2
4. Horizons
5. Eve Online
6. GuildWars
7. Asheron's Call
8. World of Warcraft

Hmm... quite an impressive list when you look at them all at once. No wonder my wife complains. hehe...

• Oh, also in the process of organising finance to bulldoze my house and build a new one!! Exciting times!

New content

Well it’s been way too long since I’ve posted to this blog. A whole host of reasons as to why… Too busy, not focused, no reason etc etc.

 

One thing I’ve been thinking about, and I’m sure it comes up for all bloggers, is how much information do you blog? Do you blog about a specific topic with the aim to become an expert? Or do you blog about general stuff which might appeal more for people interested in what *I’m* talking about rather than what I have to say about something. Subtle difference.

 

Anyway, I thought I would fire up this blog again and make it my “Dear Diary” so to speak. I’m going to blog about the things I’m interested in, in no particular order. I would love to have a big reader base as I believe I have some things to say that may make a difference to some people. The most mind boggling thing is, I have no idea who that might be. I’ll let chance decide who that may be.

 

I’ll keep the posts as short as I can as I think long blog posts take up too much time. Short and to the point… I’ve got a lot of ideas I would like to get out there. I’ve even thought that a history of what I’m thinking etc would be great for my kids to read in years and years when I’m no longer around. (hopefully a LONG time from now!)

 

This is one of my favourites. :)

Enjoy...

I think this one is silly, but my wife doesn't. She says to stay away from the sex jokes. I like sex! Hmmm... I think its a guy thing. What do you think? Are there any girls out there who like the sex ones or just guys?

Enjoy!

Oh cool. I did some digging around in the shed and found some old Aphobia (well it wasnt called that back then) strips and so i've scanned one in and coloured it. I've got some more there so i'll pick out some favourites and do them too.

Enjoy!

Exams are over, so lets celebrate with a cartoon! Yay!!

Don't you love it when that exam that was freaking you out turns out to be a big pussycat. Still... glad its behind me now. :)

Enjoy

My mum (mom for those American readers) didn't understand this one, but one of my mates thought it was great. :)

Enjoy!

Ok, with one exam out of the way I've a little more time to upload a new Cartoon or two. I did this one a week ago, sorry its late.

Oh an just in case it earns me extra points, check out Ensight, its a great read on the world of blogging. :)

http://www.ensight.org

Well, Almost back online. The web server is back but my website is a little munged. The site that the blog is pointing at is ok, except there is one file missing. I think it was not backed up so i'll upload it when i get home tonight... then i'm back in business. :)

Again, my apologies.

Apologies on the links to my cartoons not working right now. I recently went to a web host for my web site and a week later their server has gone down. Big time down. Its been over 24 hours and the server still isnt fully available.

I can see the files now via the web interface but it looks like the Name servers were also affected. I'm wondering if it was all on the same server. If it happens again then i'll be moving to another Web host, 24 hours is rediculous especially seeing they guarantee 99.9% uptime.

Stay tuned for more Aphobia, and check back soon. I'm hoping it will all be back and running today.

I didn't do anything yesterday as it was a public holiday. Also i have exams next few weeks so may slack off in the cartoon area. I'm studying, honest!!

:)

:)


Enjoy

Ok, I just saw The Revenge of the Sith. Had to be done... :)


ok?

This is a toy car being thrown by a child. Its not a real car ok?

Doesnt that give you the heebie jeebies, when you get web on your face?


It does me.

Enjoy...

Think this would make a good spin off character...