Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Things which I realise aren’t really worth losing sleep over, yet which still irritate me

Published on April 20, 2009 in Random. Closed
  • People who sit on the aisle seat in buses and put their bag on the window seat, so they won’t have to have someone sit down next to them.
  • People who do stupid things while driving cars but never seem to get caught.
  • People who bitch and moan about inconsequential things on the internet (oh, the sweet irony!)

InterNOT

Published on April 6, 2009 in Random. Closed

I’ve learned quite a bit about ISPs in the last few days.

It started when I tried to transfer our ADSL account from our old address to our new one. Same phone number, same suburb, same exchange, just a new address. “Alas!”, came the eventual reply, “you cannot get and ADSL connection at your new address, for you are too far from the exchange!”

Bugger. Surprising, considering we’re actually closer to the exchange as the crow flies, but I’m no expert in telecommunications wiring, and perhaps there are some vagaries of which I’m unaware. So I called our friendly, attentive, and personable monopoly telco for some advice. “No worries matey”, said the affable fellow on the other end. “My check here says you can get all our DSL services at that address, which one do you want?”

Now I’m pretty wary of said telco’s services, but they actually offered me a pretty good deal, so I tentatively stammered in the affirmative, and set things in motion. All was well and good in the land of hypothetical internet arrangements, until this morning, at which point the status checker delivered the depressing news that, upon having performed a few more checks, they actually couldn’t give me any DSL after all.

Flocking hell

Published on April 5, 2009 in Random. Closed

I’ve just installed “Flock”, which is basically firefox that’s been all tricked out to interact with social websites. So it’ll aggregate content from facebook, myspace, youtube, this website (I’m typing on it now) and anything else you can throw a stick at.

So mainly I’m just trying it out here… nothing to report. Well, actually quite a bit to report, but nothing I can be bothered typing up right now.

Ok, you twisted my arm. I’ll do it in dot points though, and perhaps come back and fill in the gaps later.


  • The Who rocked


  • Counting Crows were OK


  • We got a neighbor complaining about Molly barking, but they were quite nice about it


  • I have a mighty sore lower back


  • 5 weeks is a scary amount of time to finish post-production on 13 animated TV episodes


  • I’ll be sans-employment again at the end of May


  • No I’m not going to fly to Melbourne for the 21st birthday party of a cousin who I’ve met only twice and wouldn’t recognise if I ran into him on the street


  • The previous is not because I’m a horrible person – I have good friends interstate who I’d love to see more often, and I can’t afford to do that either.


  • I still can’t decide if I like OSX Leopard of Windows 7 better. I’ve been using Win7 beta and it’s verily nice, but I’ve been booting up on the OSX side lately and it’s still very neat.


  • I’m just filling space now.


  • The End.



Alrighty, let’s hit post and see what happens :)