Tomorrow morning we have a house inspection from the realtor, which is always fun – there’s a little flurry of activity right beforehand where Anton, Damien & Laura try to spruce the place up to a liveable standard. I did my part – I swept some cobwebs and spider-webs away. Now all the spiders in… Read more
Damnit, here I am thinking I’ll get a reasonable night’s rest, and be in bed by 2am… and then 2am disappears. Now it’s after 3am. #%$! daylight savings.
I think I grossly overestimated the performance of this VIA EPIA-SP8000E mainboard. It gets a 3DMark03 score of 37. Yes, a whole 37. For comparison, a half-way decent score for a modern PC is at least 10000. Yes, all those zeros. This is going to be an interesting demo… Marker: “So, does it run Halo?”.Me:… Read more
I think one of my callings might be a race car driver, or somesuch. Put me in anything with wheels and you’ll be eating my dust. Which of course is a problem, when it comes to getting a license. Car goes forward. Car doesn’t stop. Not natural. ;) Gah, it’s going to be a disaster.… Read more
I tried, I really tried… *sob* I just can’t do it; I can’t install Gentoo. It’s an evil fiend. I’m sure it’s actually impossible to install it – even if you do surmount all it’s challenges, months later when it’s finished compiling, I’m sure there’s a “boss” error… “Gentoo installation is finished. Please enter the… Read more
And people wonder why DVD players are so cheap and crappy… I pulled one to bits yesterday for spare parts. Well, actually I salvaged what was left of it’s bits, after Laura had already taken to it with some kind of extremely large, heavy blunt object. No, seriously – she’d torn the metal casing into… Read more
It’s really cute looking back at the [partial] IRC logs from when Sarah and I were first going out… except when it gets up to the bit which reminds me why we broke up. And to see the date on it, and to realise how long things weren’t right. I’m suddenly not quite so interested… Read more