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Looking at my history in LiveJournal... it looks like I blog a lot and then just give up. Oops. If anyone's interested, the big news at the moment is I've become the Albury O-Week Leader Co-ordinator for next year. Could be interesting. As such I have to work out all sorts of stuff. Those who know me know how fond of work I'm not. And I'm on the MCC (Murray Campus Council) which is the Albury Student's Representative Committee.

I received an interesting email today. It's the first chain letter I've even been remotely tempted to forward... But I'm still not into forwarding chain letters (much too much like distributing spam). Anyway, the email follows.

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Julia has a new battery. My poor little PDA has been trying to cope with a dodgy battery for some time now... I'm sure you know the fault I'm talking about. A tiny little design flaw known as natural ageing. I completely failed to take pictures of my PDA while I had it demolished, but I have also received a new battery for my Mum's PDA, so I should be able to take pictures of that.

It's been a while since my last post, I can sleep and I have goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes... What better time to update my blog.
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Bad News...


Volume 10 is in pre-production and the plan is for a February release. When in February you want to know? So do we!

You see, JMS has been given the ultimate time line wrecker -- jury duty. (JMS on a jury. What we would give to be in that deliberation room).


So it would appear that the next Babylon 5 scripts book has been pushed back again. The last time it was pushed back was due to Christmas (a whole lot of people complained about a lack of funds and JMS decided to help them out by not releasing a script book in December.

It has been a while since my last update but I really can't think of what to put up. Heaps has been going on. Christmas time is like that, it seems. One of the biggest changes however is there's a new girl in my life. She's still yet to be named, but I have baby photos. Any suggestions for names would be appreciated.

Things have settled down a bit now. On Tuesday the day started out quite normal, but at around 13:45 everything went pear-shaped. For those who want less words and more stuff to look at, there are photos.

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My Firefly tin has turned up. As far as I can tell there is nothing extra included with this "Collector's Tin" edition (other than the obvious - the tin), however I wanted it just because it looks sooooo cool. This is edition is apparently an EzyDVD exclusive (I'm guessing they've organised the tins with a local (ie. Australian) company and done a licensing deal with either Fox or Mutant Enemy. The reason for this supposition is the Sin City tin appear to be the same "tin" with a different paint job. One of the guys at work ordered a Sin City tin which also looks very nice. Now all I need to do is find someone who can sell me the Season 7 boxed set I want.

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What more can I say... I used to be in at CSUSA every other week "swinging from rafters". Sure being roadie, sound engineer and an all-round just-make-it-happen-FAST type guy is hard work, but it is also quite fun. Plus I now have a pile of gear sitting in my back room that doesn't get out much anymore.

On the plus side, rcat78 assures me that Josh is coming to town sometime in the not too distant future, so we can probably crack out the peace disturbing gear and let the entire neighbourhood enjoy our bad taste in music.

I think that about sums it all up. Perl is supposed to be an easy-to-use language, yet I seem to be having no end of difficulty linking a controller script with several helper scripts. The idea is to have a few driver scripts which can talk to various devices outside the computer. The driver scripts translate the various data (mostly temperature readings) into a format which the control module can handle before passing it on. In theory, a fairly simple, straight forward design. But can Perl make it that easy? I've tried loading XML-RPC libraries and a library called event. Every time I think I've found a set of libraries that sound like they'll work, a missing dependency pops up or some critical file turns out to be just that little bit too old. </bitch>

Si's been through town... actually, he passed through last weekend. Since then I've had a fun week. We had a router fail in Sydney. Actually, two routers (the primary and the backup) failed twice. Fun times were had by all trying to source a replacement router on a long weekend. Props to the guys at RedBack for being able to jump in and help out.

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Why have I suddenly become interested in this, you ask? It's because Si is coming back through town again. Apparently Albury Airport is the closest airport to Deni.

One of the interesting parts about the latest iTunes Music Store is the ability to view playlists constructed by celebrities. Some of the lists contain interesting selections while some of the lists are interesting just because of their presence within iTunes. ( Read more )

In an effort to clear up any misconceptions about the nature of Coups, Colonel Acra Tiprote of the Thai army had the following to say today:

"People should differentiate between entertainment and seriousness. A coup is not entertaining."

Read more at News.com.au

The Fringe Festival is now open for Submissions. Head over to http://www.digitalfringe.com.au/ to submit your work. There are going to be screens all over the place and a "Mobile Projection Unit".

There are probably people wondering why I'm so interested in this topic... They're streaming this year. How are they streaming to/from a Mobile Projection Unit, you ask? Good question. They're using the wonderful technology of iBurst. (See Josh, iBurst can do cool stuff.

There are reports of a cable break in the Southern Cross Cable (SCC) which is affecting some international connectivity. AAPT/Connect are still up as are Reach (Telstra's subsidiary that maintains international connectivity).

The latest reports on the Veridas saga are in. Apparently there have been attempts to charge customer credit cards. Some banks have been notified and all direct/indirect customers (including vISPs) are advised to keep a close eye on their credit card accounts for the next little while. There was an article on Whirlpool discussing this, but they took it down. The article is still available if you know where to look.

It looks like PIPE are pulling out of the AAPT exchanges. Rumour has it PIPE have been notifying their customers that the following sites will no longer be serviced.

Ross Street, Glebe, NSW
187 Thomas Street, Haymarket, NSW
530 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC
123 Eagle Street, Brisbane, QLD
100 Wickham Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD
45 Pirie Street, Adelaide, SA

Just to make things more interesting, the notices have been marked "Urgent". Wonder what's happening over in PIPE land.

On this day one year ago (25 September 2005) Don Adams died. See the Wikipedia article for more details. I consider this to be an entry of interest because it has recently come to my attention that a new Get Smart movie is in the pipeline. Yay! On the down side IMDb reports that Steve Carell is Executive Producer and will also be taking the lead (Title?) role (Agent 86/Maxwell Smart)

I've found the perfect collection of books. Hopefully there's someone out there motivated enough to buy me one or more of these books for Christmas abebooks.com wishlist.

Today, we went for a little trip to Beechworth. Nice little reccy too. Initally it was just because Mum wanted to, but upon arriving, more details were forthcoming. I also decided to take a trip out to the new "Sherwood" because we were "in the neighbourhood"... Yeah, Kiewa and Beechworth are close in my book... honest they are.

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