Wow, a silent, shiny PC…
Read the review or visit the homesite of this lustful piece of tech.
Archives for the month of: August, 2004
Ever since I put black and white film in my camera I’ve been kinda scared to use it… isn’t that silly?!
I think the main reason for this is that I associate B&W photos with a level of artistic-ness that I just don’t have.
In an attempt to get some ideas/confidence I bought a B&W photo magazine (was also facing a long train journey to somewhere), there were an awful lot of very interesting things in there, including information about photo holidays !
I’d love to go on one but they’re damn expensive.
There was also some info on ‘toy’ cameras, and how with a plastic lens camera costing less than £30 its possible to take some fairly decent ‘artsy’ photos…
for a short while I was very enthused (didn’t actually take any pictures but hey) and thought about getting a toy type camera for myself.
…… but then the realisation slowly dawned on me; It doesn’t matter what equipment you have or haven’t got, its not going to improve your photographic talent. I should stick with my current camera as its not holding me back in any way, and probably won’t for a long time.
What I really need to do is get properly familiar with my camera, so that I can bang off photos with it without really having to think (its a proper manual job – FYI).
A poor workman blames his tools, to an extent.
… for lazy people anyway a recent article from the bbc news website anounces that with gene therapy (blocking dopamine in the brain) lazy monkeys can be turned into workaholics.
Not that I want to become a workaholic or anything but being able to take something to break ‘the procrastination barrier’ would certainly be a blessing in some cases.
Interestingly the article hints that being ‘normal’ means procrastination, i.e. all that time in uni (Den, Andy ;)) when projects just didn’t get started ’till the last possible moment is actually fairly standard behaviour.
I feel vindicated 😛
I was browsing Shacknews (should really add that to the links list), when I saw a link to the setting up of QuakeCon 2004, I had a quick look see…
Damn they use a lot of computers, networking equipment, etc for that !!!
The geek in me was looking at the pictures and I couldn’t help but think how much fun it must be to set up something like that, there’s evern a picture of about 20 people sat round a table just crimping network leads….
fantastic fun…
I was reading an article about successful blogs and blogging which I felt resonated with me.
D. Keith (I always read that as Dr Keith for some reason) points out that a good blog has regular posts, interesting information and sometimes humourous content. This is pretty much exactly the same criteria (critrion?) that links in my ‘Worthy blogs’ section must pass.
Unfortunately the realisation has stuck that my very own blog, this here now, would not pass my own criteria for being a worthy blog :O. I would like to think that this is because I am just getting started and feeling my way around my for my own writing style and trying to improve that style.
Can you improve something you haven’t found?
anyway, as they say in AA meetings* the first step is to admit that you have a problem…
Here it is then, I have a problem knowing what to blog about and being sure to make it interesting and/or amusing.
I will be working at this problem along with several others (mostly programming based) over the next few weeks and months.
Bear with me during this period, and as the once popular songs states
Things can only get better… 😉
*I’ve never actually been to an AA meeting
Randomly surfing other peoples blogs (as you do) I came across an amusing tale, I have no idea if its true or not, I don’t care its pretty damn funny either way 🙂
Just trying to get feedster to work:
Random feedster link
… And my broadband should be activated by the 20th August 🙂
Damn thats two weeks away!
Nevermind I’m sure I’ll manage.
I decided in the end to go with vispa as an ASDL provider as they were number one in the top 10 list according to ispreview.co.uk. Now in my book you can’t go far wrong with that, and reading the customer comments on that page gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Just have to wait and see, hopefully it’ll be worth it as its a £58 activation fee!!!
I do get a static IP though, and backup dial-up, and other good things too 🙂
I am of course going for the 512kbps service 😀
Well the lack of internet at home was nicely explained by the appearence on my door-step of my next door neighbour (no he hadn’t come to have ‘words’).
It turns out that he needed to use the phone, as the phone box at the end of the road was broken (damn vandals), so obviously no phone connection in his house. With some more explination creeping out it transpired that he is now the soul inhabitant of the house next door as the other housemates (next door is a shared house also) have now moved out, presumable taking their unsecured wireless router with them to Wimbledon. Multimap tells me that this is 23 miles away… I don’t care how good your WiFi antenna is, you’re not gonna get that signal!
So it looks like I’ll have to get my own connection (Pete :P), which is fair enough. I’m happy to pay for it now that I’ve cleared the debt from moving and can actually afford it.
In that respect you could say that their move was well timed, any earlier and I would have been left slightly gutted.
Anyway all those that know me can expect my e-mailage and IM’ing to be low or non-existant until my connection gets activated.
For all the geeky type people:
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