It has been a good year. I have not been disconnected from Bigpond Broadband yet. I am used to being disconnected 2-3 times per year when they ‘forget’ to send bills for months at a time, then disconnect me for non payment. Plus the $55 reconnection fee, of course. Good for the share price, you… Continue reading Bigpond FuX0rs

just to prove that I didn’t make it up.

Spong and I bought BF1942 on Saturday. We spent most of the afternoon and night testing it. It was good in many ways (Berlin), but in one important way it was not good. Specifically: lag. It is the laggiest game I have ever played, especially on the larger maps. We’re talking 3 FPS here. It… Continue reading BF1942: Spong is right

‘Sugar’ Ray and longtime girlfriend Judi have gotten married in Vegas. Click the link for the streaming video (Windows Media). Highlights include Ray dancing with Elvis, and Phil Smart laughing at him.

I spent a portion of today researching RF networking for work. The research yielded quite a bit of noise, but some of the noise was interesting from a personal perspective. As I often do, I collected any interesting links and emailed them to myself at home to check out after work. I learned 2 main… Continue reading Above and beyond

Have I mentioned that I am kickboxing? I never realised that it would be this much fun. All week I am hanging out for Saturday, I even train in the gym, which is not like me. I am not exactly at the stage where I can start fights at the pub, but when I am… Continue reading Jean-Claude Van Darryn

I have been playing the MP Test of Battlefield 1942 and I am hooked. It is much more realistic than your Wolfenstein or DoD, or even MOHAA. Tobruk is like Tobruk. Wake Island is like Wake Island. Kirsten will probably have nightmares after seeing a German corpse loll back with fixed dead gaze towards me.… Continue reading My next purchase : Battlefield 1942

I just got a takeout coffee. It came with a lid. The lid has the word “DETPACK” stamped in the top. This concerns me. Is the apparently plastic lid really made of plastique? Am I in danger? Why didn’t they put one of those retun air holes on the other side of the lid? Why… Continue reading Danger Coffee