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As I glossed over on my last post, I've been reinstalling my media center pc. So far I've: Formatted C Drive Installed Vista Installed the motherboard, audio, video, tv card, and bluetooth drivers. And that's enough for tonight. I'se tired and sleepy. Interestingly, the remote control I got, since it's only a keyboard as far as the PC is ...

Well, not that much really. Work is flat out, but fun, so I'm happy :) In the off hours, I've mostly been running my net connection downloading tv shows. Last month (12th December-11th Jan) my 40 gig download limit was used up 5 days before the end, so I got throttled to slower than modem speeds for 5 days :) This month (12 Jan - 11th Feb) I ...

My sister sent me a link to this site last week. It's a riddle site. They're really hard. I love em. I'm currently on level 56, which means I've almost finished all the ones that are there so far. Now I can't sleep. Gah! Die Deb, die! :)

Its amazing the way language evolves. In the IT world especially, new words spring up all the time - often spawning a complete grammar to go along with it. For example, we create a new product - let's call it Spanky. Once people are familiar with Spanky, it then often follows that Spanky get's integrated into other sentences - we want to convert ...

Update: If you're looking at this post through my blog rather through a blog reader, you might have noticed that you're only seeing the left hand side of this comic. Sorry about that - I keep forgetting that the skin for my blog is fixed width, and anything that spills over just disappears! When I have time, I'll be working on the skin to allow ...

I made a discovery today. It's probably not big news, and everyone but me probably knew it already, but it was news to me. Athena, Canberra's fantastic user group leader, has a blog. Anyway, in the course of browsing around her stuff, I stumbled across this pic she put up of some of Australia's DPE team. I have to show it here, because I think ...

For the last few weeks I've been missing something that's quite important to me. My memory stick. The last time I can remember seeing it was when I was packing for TechEd - I'm pretty sure I decided to bring it, just in case. It ended up that I didn't need it, but that's fine. Better to be safe than sorry. So since I got back, I haven't ...

I'm spending the day sitting on the back verandah again while I'm working. I have to say - this is really a nice way to spend the day. It's warm (but not hey yet, although once the afternoon kicks in and the sun moves aroudn to shine on me it might be a different story) and the skies are clear. A strong wind has developed over the course of the ...

I think my life is complete now. For the first time ever, I've got more than one computer running at home. Instead of going around to a friends place tonight like we normally do, we decided to have a quiet night in - especially good now that the inlaws aren't here :) So what are we doing? Sitting about 3 metres apart, both checking ...

Well this is a new experience for me. I'm sitting in Sydney Airport waiting for my flight home from TechEd. I've been here about three and a half hours already, and there's still almost an hour until takeoff. Luckily, Mitch has been stuck on the same flight as me. So I'm sitting on a borrowed laptop (thanks Noonie!) and hijacking into Mitch's net ...