Year: 2003

When I am an engineer, I plant landmines. The landmines are marked with a little flag. If you walk on a little flag, that’s walking on a landmine. When you walk on a landmine, you will die. It is your choice, so don’t file a complaint against me. That is annoying.

Home Brand Spring Water, 1.5L. A six pack costs $3.98. The water is from France, and it is far superior to any domestic water. It is smooth like Vittel or Evian. I rate it very highly, it is my staple drink.

Thanks to the recommendations from Spong and Penny Arcade, I downloaded the demo of XIII. Its draw is that it is a cell-shaded FPS. I liked Jet Set Radio Future for the cell-shading, and I love FPS games, so my hopes were high. Until I fell victim to the mouse bug. It seems that in… Continue reading XIII Mousing nightmare

Spam has evolved to the point where it is its own purpose: spam for spam’s sake. I am sure you are familiar with spam, and the way in which it has started to use a few randomly-generated “words” to try and sneak past the spam filters. Today I received a spam that had no real… Continue reading Spam Evolves

I have a new special project: a robotic webcam. I got the idea from Ian, who has provided me with some support on the building of such a device. The idea is to build a webcam that can be panned and tilted using wizardry and electrickery by the web user. There needs to be some… Continue reading Laser webcam

Last Week I saw Something For Kate at the Metro. The show was very good, everyone enjoyed themselves. But inside me I felt unsettled. I had a feeling that the whole thing was just wrong. I have been to the Metro many times in the past, and always it was for a dance party. I… Continue reading Return to the scene of the crime.

“Ooh, an opportunityto wreck Darryn’s day again.”“YAY!” said Telstra

I have just returned from a week in Melbourne. The trip was supposed to be for three days, but there was a problem that kept me in the office. By Sunday night I had everything perfect and working and ready to go, the Melbourne office was singing. At 9:30 on Monday morning Telstra cut off… Continue reading Melbourne again, forever