danny’s space

gotta love the holidays

i missed bludging like this during the 9 long weeks of uni that have passed..

today chap and i met up in the morning after a pleasant sleep-in (not together…) at the cafe in north epping close to church, and ‘wrote’ a ’speech’ for a good friend’s upcoming 21st.. we must have gotten lots of weird looks from the people sitting around us, what sitting there with a laptop blasting music away at 9:30 in the morning.. what nerds!

church service was great too, our english pastor andrew hong preached from 1 thessalonians after quite a noticeable break.. it was great to hear about the ‘pauline triad’ or something about faith, love and hope and how it applied to the dudes in thessalonica and also to us right here and now..

afterwards went to macquarie for a nice relaxed lunch and chat with a bunch of pals from church - we hadn’t (well i hadn’t) done that for so long it was great to just eat and bum and talk with them.. and have a whinge about 21sts and how everyone has their parties at the same time..

then bummed at sara’s place for a bit and introduced her to the wonderful world of crickler puzzles..

then back home for dinner and tv - spy kids 2 is so cool! that scary scientist person looks like the mental freaky dirty guy from that movie where bruce willis drills a hole in an asteroid.. but yeah kids movies are fun to watch, they have such predictable characters and a pretty good moral storyline as well, which reduces the need to think - perfect!

after that went to chap’s house for a bit of singstar action with a bunch of church friends - it was great, everyone got involved and had lots of fun.. chap nearly beat his record in ‘the reason’.. we had a good guys vs girls comp going but yes the girls were too good.. karen had to get medical treatment in the form of a throat lozenge though.. but yes, fun fun!

taping the transporter now, will watch it tomorrow, hooray for bludge!

ah damn still have lots of uni work to do as well unfortunately.. i can’t pull myself away from this bludge-a-rama!

hooray, after 9 long and kind of boring weeks, the midsemester break is finally here!

a bit of nc and billy got together this morning to play a bit of cricket at north rocks oval - too bad chap had work, moo had 21sts and alex was in canberra.. it was interesting getting into it after a few months of cricket void.. nash is still the sri-lankan champ and billy ain’t that bad either..

two trips to the airport this morning (although i was only awake for one, so actually only 1 trip for me) to see people off.. no matter how many times you see someone off at the airport, it never really loses its punch..

also had a haircut, i think i left it much too long this time, the hairdresser mowed it back like usual but it was still pretty long and bushy so we had to keep going.. it looks okay now i think, although some people would say otherwise.. it’s low maintenance!

took jaz for a walk again today.. scary thing happened a few days ago when i took her walking alone (normally my sister and i walk jaz together).. this dark taxi rumbles down the road in the opposite direction, sees us (jaz and i), and then pulls to the side of the road, does a U-ie and then drives slowly behind us for a bit.. i keep looking backwards with a concerned look on my face while jaz also looks backwards excitedly, thinking about any new friends that may be sitting inside the taxi.. i rather not have found out, so i pull my phone out and gave sara a call so that at least someone could be witness to my abduction.. thankfully the taxi left us alone.. phew, got out of that one

so yes, sitting in front of the computer all smelly now.. backing up photos and the like.. i swear dvd burners are cool, everyone should get one if only to back up important stuff like photos and documents and whatnot..

and.. went to buy dvd+rs today at bigw.. saw a spindle of 50 tdks for $42 and a spindle of 25 hps for $43.. i had previously bought the hp ones and they worked pretty well so i was going to go for them again, but then did a price check (how cool are those scanning things) on the tdk and found out that it was a buck cheaper for double the amount of dvds.. so i got that instead just to try it out.. go home, check up the disc info, turns out that they both come from the exact same manufacturer, and the tdk discs are actually a few models up from the hp one.. score!

yes anyway the afl is on, i normally don’t watch it but hey its the grand final, 70-odd years since sydney last won, so i’ll make an exception.. doesn’t look good though, 8 minutes to go and eagles are up, but only by a bit..

ok, publish!

1. apples are more effective than caffeine at waking you up in the morning
2. when you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart
3. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute
4. the toothbrush was invented in 1498
5. 40000 americans are injured by toilets every year
6. most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep
7. in most tv milk ads, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used instead of real milk

how much would a 10 metre network cable cost? $10 maybe? what if it was black? maybe $15 because black’s a cool colour.. and maybe $2 more than that because it’s category 6 (what on earth does this mean anyway, i thought they were cat5 normally… since when did another cat join the ranks?) and perhaps an extra $20 because it was sold at dick smith.. making the total a whopping $37, which means i probably got it for cheap considering it was *only* $28.94 - bargain!

not

’nuff said

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wasted the pretty much all of today setting up an old pentium III for file serving… which reminded me that i should really make backups of my data and clear up some room on my main computer…

so i looked around for official-looking information on the lifespan of recordable media, and it turns out that dvds last longer than cds… dvds supposedly last from 100-200 years (although ‘accelerated aging’ tests show around 30 years), while cds last up to 30 years…

plus what was interesting was the suggestion that the best storage position for discs is vertical! man, no wonder my backup cd-rs screw up all the time and have such a short lifespan!

more information, go here

now to look around for gold-looking dvd-rs

hopefully this time the big image won’t be distorted

why can’t technology just work?!

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sticky image from wp-plugins, i wonder if this will work

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yay - finally tweaked this theme to what i want - with the big P page navigation up the top and proper categorised links in the sidebar…

sleep time!

my gosh…

don’t use permalinks with wordpress if you want your pages to display properly - at least don’t use the permalink template that wordpress suggests! it doesn’t work… took me an hour to work it out…

i thought having permalinks would be cool but noooo…