Go Have a read
Sounds Intresting even if nothing comes of it. I heard about this before but this is the first progress I've read on the challange. It's not really much, other that the first team has finished registering. better than nothing though. While I hope this reduces the cost of space travel I can't see myself being able to afford a trip into space in my lifetime.
"Future generations will view the Google Lunar X PRIZE as the turning point of the 21st century, when humanity realized the Moon's critical role for prosperity and survival in space and on Earth."
It may happen in the 21st century but i doubt that the changes that this challenge will bring about will happen before the 22nd century.
Sunday 9 December 2007
Saturday 8 December 2007
Chloe
she's lovely....sometimes.
Being the crazy writer/woman/thing that she is, she decided that she should steal some thunder from my plans of world domination by creating this abomination.
Okay, so it's only got one post right now, but its very well written unlike the trash I post.
Go have a look.
Now.
I heard its got free cookies....And cake.
Being the crazy writer/woman/thing that she is, she decided that she should steal some thunder from my plans of world domination by creating this abomination.
Okay, so it's only got one post right now, but its very well written unlike the trash I post.
Go have a look.
Now.
I heard its got free cookies....And cake.
Pomegranate Juice...
...is the best thing ever!
I only recently discovered this stuff and its like drinking sex.
Blueberry flavor(above) is the only one I've tried so far and I love it.
If anyone has any information regarding marrying an inanimate object please leave me a comment.
I only recently discovered this stuff and its like drinking sex.
Blueberry flavor(above) is the only one I've tried so far and I love it.
If anyone has any information regarding marrying an inanimate object please leave me a comment.
Thursday 6 December 2007
EVE!
As you may or may not know I Play Eve-Online.
Eve is an online game where players interact in a space environment. Anyone who has ever played elite should be very much at home with this game.
Today CCP the creators of the game released a patch to update the out of date graphics. Not much to say about it really. It looks awesome, everything is smoother and it uses DX10 for the lucky 50 people who have DX10 graphics cards (more on DX10 here)
This is pretty much the closest thing to video game porn besides crysis(more DX10 stuff).
I'll post some screenshots later to show the difference but believe me when i say its impressive.
Eve is an online game where players interact in a space environment. Anyone who has ever played elite should be very much at home with this game.
Today CCP the creators of the game released a patch to update the out of date graphics. Not much to say about it really. It looks awesome, everything is smoother and it uses DX10 for the lucky 50 people who have DX10 graphics cards (more on DX10 here)
This is pretty much the closest thing to video game porn besides crysis(more DX10 stuff).
I'll post some screenshots later to show the difference but believe me when i say its impressive.
Computer shop
This evening/Morning I was talking to my good friend Darryl about the idea of setting up a computer shop. In between him writing his film essay we juggled with the idea of setting up a shop together. the idea is becoming increasingly tempting. I would be lying if I didn't say I thought about leaving university to start one.
Suddenly I seem to have found a purpose with my life and I think this is what I genuinely want to do. of course I would like to have a degree but I would love to have my own computer shop. One thing I haven't mentioned yet is that I worked as a computer engineer for about one and a half years. It was the most fun I think I've even had working. Yes you get complete idiots coming in with problems they could have solved if they read the manual but you also get people who know nothing about computers and have tried to solve the problem with no luck. those are the people that I find rewarding to help. They are the people that thank you for the work and don't complain that's its not their fault they didn't know how to get capital letters(true story).
Suddenly I seem to have found a purpose with my life and I think this is what I genuinely want to do. of course I would like to have a degree but I would love to have my own computer shop. One thing I haven't mentioned yet is that I worked as a computer engineer for about one and a half years. It was the most fun I think I've even had working. Yes you get complete idiots coming in with problems they could have solved if they read the manual but you also get people who know nothing about computers and have tried to solve the problem with no luck. those are the people that I find rewarding to help. They are the people that thank you for the work and don't complain that's its not their fault they didn't know how to get capital letters(true story).
Computer "support"
Fickle things laptops. Sometimes they can be really easy to take apart and other times they can be completely.....unfriendly. This evening i had the unfortunate luck of coming across one of these unfriendly chaps.
the problem was simple. Laptop continuously shutdown due to over heating.
Now, this is a common problem with laptops as the air that is pulled into the laptop tends to go though thin gaps between the heat sink fins. The dust that goes though these fins gets stuck and bungs the entire thing up. Now normally this is just a simple task of popping the keyboard and removing the heat sink and giving it a good dusting. However in this case the bastard refused to allow me to remove the keyboard until I removed almost every screw from the laptop! Finally after 1/2 an hour of fighting with the 'thing' I managed to pop the keyboard and remove the heat sink revealing about an inch of dust icing. Out comes the hover and I proceed to dust and clean. It was at this point the "customer" decided to press her fingers onto the exposed processor and mistaking the HTC(heat transfer compound) as dust, pushing most of the the HTC off the processor and end up with a large amount of HTC on their fingers. Now without an even amount of HTC the heat cannot efficiently transfer from the processor to the heat sink. I unfortunately do not have any HTC on my so i reassenbled the laptop praying that the bloody thing worked. 20 seconds into starting the machine it hangs.
Restart.
Hangs again.
Restart again.
Hangs again.
Moral of the story: If you think a customer is going to poke what your working on, make sure you poke out their eyes first.
the problem was simple. Laptop continuously shutdown due to over heating.
Now, this is a common problem with laptops as the air that is pulled into the laptop tends to go though thin gaps between the heat sink fins. The dust that goes though these fins gets stuck and bungs the entire thing up. Now normally this is just a simple task of popping the keyboard and removing the heat sink and giving it a good dusting. However in this case the bastard refused to allow me to remove the keyboard until I removed almost every screw from the laptop! Finally after 1/2 an hour of fighting with the 'thing' I managed to pop the keyboard and remove the heat sink revealing about an inch of dust icing. Out comes the hover and I proceed to dust and clean. It was at this point the "customer" decided to press her fingers onto the exposed processor and mistaking the HTC(heat transfer compound) as dust, pushing most of the the HTC off the processor and end up with a large amount of HTC on their fingers. Now without an even amount of HTC the heat cannot efficiently transfer from the processor to the heat sink. I unfortunately do not have any HTC on my so i reassenbled the laptop praying that the bloody thing worked. 20 seconds into starting the machine it hangs.
Restart.
Hangs again.
Restart again.
Hangs again.
Moral of the story: If you think a customer is going to poke what your working on, make sure you poke out their eyes first.
Wednesday 5 December 2007
"i think im a missing person"
What are these shenanigans
OK, now to quickly sum up the article.
Guy goes missing in canoe accident.
Wife claims life insurance.
Guy has been spotted living with his wife for the last 5 years.
Guy "reappears" 5 years later.
Guy claims he knows nothing about it and is suffering from amnesia.
An interesting story if nothing else.
personally I think if any of it is true he has spent the last 5 years in immense pain. Thus all of this can be explained because his brain suppressed the memory.
Now, if I don't pretend to have any common sense, I can quite happily say the whole thing stinks of tom foolery.
Edit: The wife came clean and told the police that the whole thing was a setup to get out of thousands of pounds of debt.
OK, now to quickly sum up the article.
Guy goes missing in canoe accident.
Wife claims life insurance.
Guy has been spotted living with his wife for the last 5 years.
Guy "reappears" 5 years later.
Guy claims he knows nothing about it and is suffering from amnesia.
An interesting story if nothing else.
personally I think if any of it is true he has spent the last 5 years in immense pain. Thus all of this can be explained because his brain suppressed the memory.
Now, if I don't pretend to have any common sense, I can quite happily say the whole thing stinks of tom foolery.
Edit: The wife came clean and told the police that the whole thing was a setup to get out of thousands of pounds of debt.
bah!
This post was oridginally going to be a rant about people complaining about that single DVD in a pack of 100 that doesn't work.
I couldn't really put my rant into words that could be comprehensible to the rest of the population so i'll just say this to those people.
fuck you.
Anyway, now thats out the way i'd like to say what this blog isn't. this blog isn't a place for those who like to guess what sort of person I am. I Don't need someone who doesn't even know me to try and tell me what sort of person I am from my blog posts. First person who tries to say I'm an angry guy who just needs to be more open will be told poiltely that they are WRONG.
Seriously guys, go do something useful with your life.
Like removing yourself from the gene pool.
I couldn't really put my rant into words that could be comprehensible to the rest of the population so i'll just say this to those people.
fuck you.
Anyway, now thats out the way i'd like to say what this blog isn't. this blog isn't a place for those who like to guess what sort of person I am. I Don't need someone who doesn't even know me to try and tell me what sort of person I am from my blog posts. First person who tries to say I'm an angry guy who just needs to be more open will be told poiltely that they are WRONG.
Seriously guys, go do something useful with your life.
Like removing yourself from the gene pool.
About me!
Well I know I said I would post this as soon as I woke up but I had some other quick stuff to do first. Well, what to write about me. I'm 20 years old, as of time of writing and a student at Oxford Brookes university studying computer science. i enjoy fixing and tinkering with computers. Videogames are also a pastime I enjoy. I'm a competent juggler though not as good as a should be due to my recent illness (being lazy). I'm also engaged to my Wonderful Chloe Dockerty. She can be not so lovely sometimes (read: most of the time) but I still love her lots. I also have a ':p' smilie fetish and use it until its raw. I'm also extremely silly most of the time. Life really is far to serious. Travelling is something that i have recently discovered to enjoy and i'll post a map later with places i have been too marked on it.
I really don't know what my future is going to hold but probably something in computers. I sometimes get idea's of opening my own little computer shop but i don't know if i'm dedicated enough for that.
well. that pretty much sums me up.
more later.
I really don't know what my future is going to hold but probably something in computers. I sometimes get idea's of opening my own little computer shop but i don't know if i'm dedicated enough for that.
well. that pretty much sums me up.
more later.
Blog is Live!
Finally about much pondering inside my head i created my first blog! hopefully this blog will solve the mysteries of the universe! Ok maybe not. But still, i could come close. The reason for creating this blog is because i really wanted somewhere to throw down my thoughts. I created a live journal a while ago but that didn't really go anywhere. Now im a Student and pretend i understand more of this business called 'life'. This blog shall be filled with general useful stuff every now and again and probably my highly opinionated thoughts on current affairs and my doings in real life. I will probably post a lot of computer game related odds and sods and my experiences with stupid computer users.
Well. I guess that sums up the general purpose of this blog. My next post shall be about yours truly and shall be posted when I wake up in the morning. Stay tuned!
Well. I guess that sums up the general purpose of this blog. My next post shall be about yours truly and shall be posted when I wake up in the morning. Stay tuned!
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