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 Saturday, January 12, 2002
11:45 PM
Speedway tonight - we do the parking at the Parramatta City Raceway to raise money for ourselves but also for the Boys' Brigade company. It's an alright way to earn money and the guys get to go in for free and watch the speedway - people are funny I rekon that the definition of optimist must be the man who arrives right on start time and drives past all the cars parked in the street then pulls up opposite me leaning on the sign that clearly says CAR PARK FULL and then asks "any room inside!" - sometimes I just want to do a John Cleese and rant and rave - Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]

 Friday, January 11, 2002
Issued at 4:26 PM
Well no closer to getting this integrated into my site - I am supposed to have a php3 server with my hosting deal but it doesn't seem to work - well the include doesn't that is, although Dreamweaver shows it working [so it thinks that the HTML is right] when placed on my server nothing happens. I will just leave the link on the current page and fix it in a weeks time. Off to my Mums for the next few days and then dropping in on the guys at PA Camp.

The church map is progressing very nicely - Rob is doing an awesome job. I still have dreams for my map and ideas on how I want to change it - but it's in a playable form and whilst not a classic enjoyable. Rob's church map - will, of course and quite rightly be a classic. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]


 Tuesday, January 08, 2002
Issued at 7:17 AM
Don't you hate that, you know you're tired, you can feel the tiredness in your eyes and head, but just can't go to sleep. Played a bit of Red Faction and caught up on the sites and comics. Now I think I will try again. The phone has rung once for steve and now his mobile is ringing. I don't want to hit the day yet - but I think it may have other plans. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]

Issued at 6:57 AM
Imagine something that took 2 years to make, is graceful, stylish and will redefine its genre, engages you visually and emotionally - I'm not talking about a movie I am talking about the new iMac which Apple has revealed today. Check out the Apple site - you have to see it to believe it. But it's so much more than looks [although I guess Apple will once again hide the fact that it is such a kick ass machine].

Rock solid OS based on Free BSD unix, top of the range version has a chip which is about the same as a 1.2 GHz P4, also has a drive which lets you read and write CD and DVD, comes free with softeware what lets you make movies [iMovie - used it, it is VERY easy and for a free product does everything most people need], manage playlists [iTunes - synchs with MP3 players and burns CDs], create DVD [iDVD - never used it but looks as easy as the other two - and lets you make very professional looking DVD's] and also manage your photos [iPhoto - Shoot, Organise Share - treates photos as easy as iTunes treats music, lets you publish albums to the web, lets you order prints from Kodak and even a photo album book style in 6 different formats and with your own text and design elements]. As well as a word processor, spreadsheet and database program [AppleWorks]

Absolutely awesome! Apple once again have set the new standard for PC and cemented their position as the BMW or Porshe or the computer industry.

Anyway, it's 6am now and I think I'll just grab a couple of more hours sleep before hitting the day.

Last Sunday we played my new quake map and I got a positive response, it's not finished yet, and I will probably keep on working on it during the holidays. Rain last night has eased the fire threat just a little in the Blue Mountains but lot of fires are still burning around the state. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]


Issued at 5:19 AM
Imagine something that took 2 years to make, is graceful, stylish and will redefine its genre, engages you visually and emotionally - I'm not talking about a movie I am talking about the new iMac which Apple has revealed today. Check out the Apple site - you have to see it to believe it. But it's so much more than looks [although I guess Apple will once again hide the fact that it is such a kick ass machine].

Rock solid OS based on Free BSD unix, top of the range version has a chip which is about the same as a 1.2 GHz P4, also has a drive which lets you read and write CD and DVD, comes free with softeware what lets you make movies [iMovie - used it, it is VERY easy and for a free product does everything most people need], manage playlists [iTunes - synchs with MP3 players and burns CDs], create DVD [iDVD - never used it but looks as easy as the other two - and lets you make very professional looking DVD's] and also manage your photos [iPhoto - Shoot, Organise Share - treates photos as easy as iTunes treats music, lets you publish albums to the web, lets you order prints from Kodak and even a photo album book style in 6 different formats and with your own text and design elements]. As well as a word processor, spreadsheet and database program [AppleWorks]

Absolutely awesome! Apple once again have set the new standard for PC and cemented their position as the BMW or Porshe or the computer industry.

Anyway, it's 6am now and I think I'll just grab a couple of more hours sleep before hitting the day.

Last Sunday we played my new quake map and I got a positive response, it's not finished yet, and I will probably keep on working on it during the holidays. Rain last night has eased the fire threat just a little in the Blue Mountains but lot of fires are still burning around the state. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]


 Sunday, January 06, 2002
Issued at 2:38 AM
So much for "the next few days I should finish it off" - making maps for Quake has taken hold here in Nerdsville Toongabbie. I bought Quiver and so now I can export the .map file and convert it into a Q3 map. It's a pain cos I have to map the textures from Q1 into Q3. I also can't work out how to get Quiver to map jump pads - although I think I have the teleporter licked.

The fires continue around the edges of metropolitan sydney. Praise God for the fireys and the lessons they learnt in 1994. This is the worst set of fires ever in Australia since white settlement noticed them. 14 days now and another week or more to go. I thank God that no lives have been lost and property loss has been kept to a minimum.

Steve is back from down the south coast and so there is a person in the house again - this is good - it's funny how you get used to the noises of a person in the house and when they are not there it can be very off putting. It's been a loing time since I had a night of being freaked out [happened a couple of times when I first moved out and lived alone] - things are pretty benign in Toongabbie.

I might work on the new site over the next few days - even if it is just to include this blog into the current format of the page.

cheers. [Comment] [GuestBook] [Archive]