I have my beasty machine installed with Vista for the sole reason of games. Otherwise, I'd be on Linux. But there's a certain sense of irony that the easiest way for me to program computer games is in Linux. Made stronger by the fact that I bought a laptop yesterday and it'll be easier to develop games on that than my beasty machine.

(In before: ( Read more... )

After weeks being in the (metaphorical) wilderness, I finally got Internet at home. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

There is much news to impart, but I have to do stuff then go out.

For the last two days I've been moving house. It's a bit exhausting but not too bad. Moving into the new house was orders of magnitude easier than moving out of the old one. Everyone has been impressed with our new place, mostly because it's massive and awesome.

Anyway, I've got more stuff to do and these kids in the cyber cafe are annoying.

I reckon you should wander on over to Illuminating Science to see Joel's neat post on data mining Facebook' relationship status information.

Dooo eeeet. *shakes fist*

I've been talking about it for a while, but I've finally taken the plunge and bought a new computer. This will be the first computer bought solely out of my own funds.

And she's a beauty.

( Specs for nerds )

Great idea: Steamed vegetables for dinner.

Atrocious idea: Making my own butter popcorn afterwards.

I need that opera guy from Scrubs: "Mistaaaaaaaaaake!"

I'd like to change the English language. Just a little. I'd like tougher conditions on the word "worth". In particular when applied to celebrities. I'd prefer "Celebrity A has been valued at $50 million a movie" than "Celebrity A is worth $50 million a movie". The former, I think, says that someone's value system has pegged them at $50 million ( Read more... )

Inspired by maga_dogg' and el_moofo's recent posts on mnemonics, I thought I'd finally share with you part of my literal mind map. To explain, when I'm thinking about certain topics, certain real places in the world pop into my head. I guess it's a mnemonic aid because I'm excellent with geography and places. The places have no bearing on the topic. You'll find a ( Read more... )

I'm thinking (in my grand plan to upgrade my PC) to get a new monitor. I currently have a 17" Dell CRT, which is okay but CRT is bollocks. I'm tossing up between these two:

Samsung 225BW-BL vs AOC 416VI don't need supreme colour fidelity. I just want something that works well enough for gaming and should be close to no-hassle (I'm not keen on ( Read more... )

In Canberra you can order a taxi using this voice-recognition system. If you ring using a mobile phone you get the option to be sent an SMS when the taxi is close to picking you up. Here's the one I got:

Thanks for calling Canberra Cabs. Taxi TX57 is on the way and is now 0.99m away.I was a little spooked because there was no car on the street, ( Read more... )