Annette has packed pretty much the whole apartment. I shall end up packing my desk stuff and computer stuff. Everything else, the vast majority of which can be described as “All the damn books”, has been packed by Annette. I have offered sage advice like “Wow, awesome packing there!” and…
You are about to read my review of the (illegally downloaded from the internets) 2005 MTV Music Video Awards. It shall be presented in the format of: I shall type my thoughts while watching into this blog update page. I won’t comment on everything, just stuff that actually makes…
This, as far as I can make out, is how Hogwarts breaks down: Gryffindor – The Heroes! Slytherin – Evil! Hufflepuff – We Have A Stupid Name! Ravenclaw – The Other One! So, like, basically Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are the “filler” houses, there to round things out so you don’t just have a…
Just watched the trailer for the “Doom” movie. Item the first: Hell is not involved. Instead, there’s some stuff about viruses and suchlike. So, then “DNA and shit .. and now everyones a zombie.” Not really Doom at all. More .. oh .. what’s the word… Resident Evil. Yeah, that’s…
I’ve just finished reading a book called “The Weapon” by one Michael Z. Williamson. I purchased this book solely on the recommendation of the author of the webcomic Schlock Mercenary which is on my list of daily reads. “The Weapon” can best be described, I think, as 2/3…
Right. Flew down to Dunedin on tuesday, for a meeting with a possible customer. Did my standard “satellite based data networks have the following advantages over ground-based” speech, and carefully didn’t give the “and here’s the much larger list of why it’s much much worse.” speech. In…
I just watched several episodes of a TV show called Wonder Showzen. I don’t think this isn’t actually screening in NZ yet, on any of the standard or sky channels. It’s on MTV2 in the US, and I don’t think we get that. I haven’t…
James Doohan died yesterday, aged 85. People sometimes ask me why I got into networks and engineering and general geekery, and I tell them that my brain seems to be hard-coded to enjoy this kind of tech stuff. But if I had to point at some cultural markers that encouraged…