My machine at work was nagging me to activate XP, and all the licenses had been maxed out, so we bought a single copy of XP Pro, and I entered the license key. Everything seemed to work, and I left on Friday a happy man. This morning, however, it was a different story. Upon logging [...]
Before brunch this morning I took Eliza on a ride down to my folks place so I could borrow their vacuum cleaner. Ours is broken and doesn’t suck at all, but theirs sucks big-time, so I was pretty happy with the results. I also took the opportunity to install the 2GB I bought t’other day. [...]
I was using the computer in the boardroom at work, and someone had left their USB memory stick plugged in. “No worries”, he said. “Let me eject that”. He moved the mouse to the USB icon in the Taskbar, waiting for the balloon help text to pop up (it says “Safely Remove Hardware”), and then [...]
My parent’s bought themselves a PC. Not terribly successfully. Their brand new HP Pavilion a6130a desktop, with Visa Home pre-installed, came with the default amount of RAM: 512MB. To an old-timer like me, that’s a massive amount of memory, as I got by quite well with 512KB on the old Amiga, thankyou very much, so [...]
This guy at work sprayed some intensely chemical cleaner on his desk about a week ago, and I’ve been smelling it ever since. It’s annoying enough that I googled “Phantom Smell”, but that didn’t help, because smelling something that’s not there is a symptom of all sorts of heavy shit. So I’m kinda ignoring it [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wow… a homemade curry laksa with fresh prawns and scallops, fresh coriander and a generous squeeze of lemon is an amazing meal experience. And fifteen minutes to prepare!?! In other news, I can field strip a toddler’s car seat in sixty seconds, and we spent three hours tonight with our builder, discussing small details like [...]
Had a good time at the Perth Indie Games Scene Showcase and Mixer, and disappointed I didn’t have anything to showcase. Impressive to see what various peeps have been up to. And now I’m amazingly tired, and still putting off sleep time with another episode of Teh Learning Curve.
Just returned from seeing Knowing. Good to see Alex Proyas make another movie. He ran an art gallery downstairs in our building when we lived in Surry Hills, and I really enjoyed Dark City (which, together with Existenz, is often described as “the thinking man’s Matrix“). Speaking of movies, we recently visited Wil, and I [...]
Today I played around with XNA, and very quickly got a “hello, world” app up-and-running on PC and Xbox. Everything looks pretty nifty, although my enthusiasm hit a wall when I realised I’d have to write an entity system if I wanted to do anything more than draw a couple of textures round abouts. On [...]
Saturdays begin with a trip to the Subiaco markets. Eliza and I buy an almond croissant from La Galette De France, together with Machiatto and Baby Chino, while D. shops for whatever looks fresh, which determines what we’ll be eating for the coming week. Today tomatoes and parsely looked good, so tonight it’ll be Middle [...]