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Comfy Couch vs Comfy Desk Chair.

Sebconn — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:14:49 +0000

Since I bought the Xbox I’ve been sitting on a couch a whole lot, playing GTAIV, Uno and others, as well as watching movies streaming from a my PC to my TV, works great, all wirelessly (sucked it up and bought the AU$169 adapter). Before the Xbox I use to watch most of my TV shows and movies on my PC, along with gaming on the PC, was perfectly comfortable, in fact I seem to feel more confortable there than on the couch, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’ve still usually got my laptop sitting next to me on the couch, so I’m not missing anything in terms of the casual browsing of the Internets, so what is it? I can only assume it’s due to the fact that I’ve spent so much time in front of the PC that I feel more at home with it. I’m also beginning to think that I get much more immersed in PC games than console games. headphones on, nice and close to the screen, it all seems more intense. Don’t get me wrong I’m loving GTAIV in front of the TV, but I’m wondering if I’d be enjoying it more if I was playing it at my computer desk. Maybe I should invest in a HDMI to DVI adapter and plug my Xbox into my PC monitor.

On another note, I’ve got a nice new widget in my sidebar that displays my Gamertag details, it’s simply called the Xbox 360 Gamercard Wordpress plugin. It doesn’t come as a widget, so I’m using another plugin to use it as a widget, that’s called the Custom Function Widget, nice!

Dusty Springfield… I Mean Geelong.

Sebconn — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:55:50 +0000

It was incredibly weird weather in Geelong today, insanely windy which kicked up a lot of dust. I had to drive out to the sticks for work and it was indeed an interesting drive.

Just on the road to Ceres looking towards Fyansford. Landscape caked in dust.

This was a weird column of dust crossing the road. I could barely see anything driving through that.

Of course, it rained during the Dust storm caking everything in dust, including my poor car

Fermenting Begins.

Sebconn — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:42:33 +0000

Things are happening now. We’ve got the the beer fermenting away in the laundry, and in 5 to 7 days we can bottle. I’ll be getting a proper bottler next week, saves a hell of a lot of time.

Now we just cross our fingers and pray to the beer gods for good beer, with a shitload of alcoholic content.

Home Brew Beginnings.

Sebconn — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:51:07 +0000

So me and my housemate went off to the brew shop in Geelong today and picked up a starter brew kit. We got the bucket, the beer, sugars, steralizing stuff, thermostat, all the good stuff. We’re hoping to have this gear ready for new years / summer for good drinkin, might be pushing it a tad though. I’ll blog the process over time to the moment of tasting. For our first brew we’ve decided to go with Mexican Cerveza, which is supposed to be like Corona, most home brews I’ve tried don’t taste anything like they are supposed to, but we’ll give it a bash.

This should be interesting.

Official Apple Store’s set to open soon in Australia

Sebconn — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:05:55 +0000

A little bird deep in the retail industry the other day mentioned to me we will see an Australian official Apple store as early as December. All “Apple Centre’s” in Australia have received word that they will soon not be able to use that term (store’s like NextByte call their stores Apple Centres). One can only assume that the first Apple store will be in Sydney somewhere, possibly on the roof top of the Opera house, if any of the other locations are anything to go by, I guess Melbourne is in for a small chance, Fed Square, the ball room at Flinders St Station would be a mad location.

Not sure how accurate this prediction is, but I’ll get a little excited. I was lucky enough to go to the Chicago Apple Store a couple of years back and it’s to this day the most stylish, friendly and cool shop I’ve ever been to.

The Faaaark?

Sebconn — Tue, 30 May 2006 23:05:50 +0000

Man, there’s a lot of things wrong in this world, and this is one shithouse example. And you thought Pauline Hanson was bad. Look what this political party is up to

MyITSolutions.com.au Finished

Sebconn — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:14:49 +0000

Well I finally put the final touches on the MyITSolutions.com.au website I’ve been working on lately, it was my first online store so it was interesting to mess with. I used osCommerce as the store program and turned out quite well, thousands of modules and other things available which made it really easy to customise to exactly how I wanted it, the stylesheet syntax is rather weird though, seems kind of backwards to what I’m use to (instead of “.class tag” they used “tag.class” which I found weird). Now I can chill for a while and hopefully find myself a new job over summer.

New Thing

Sebconn — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:38:55 +0000

Added a links section to the left column, perty innit.

In other news I’ve almost finished a web design job I’m working on, which is good, almost finished my work’s new site, which is also good. hmm let’s see what else? Nothing I guess, I might have some more photos of the Melb Cup in the gallery soon. Portsea trip coming soon, yay.

Yarr! it be talk like a pirate day!

Sebconn — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:52:06 +0000

Yarr me scurvy dogs! It be gibber like a pirate day!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/

Yarr! ya bilge rats! I be puttin on this fandangle pirate gibberin filter on me site, so all of my previous postins be in the pirate way! Ahoy! yarr me parrot just shat on me shoulder

Portfolocate 2.0 Finished

Sebconn — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:33:02 +0000

I finally completed my portfolio script today. I’m sure the odd bug will pop up here and there but I’ll take them as they go. I’ve called it Portfolocate 2. Portfolocate 1 was a small script that scanned each user’s 5mb webspace on our (My Workplace) school’s ISP and displayed a link if an index file was found. Version 2 however is entirely different, a self contained, fully dynamic script with a MySQL backend. The biggest PHP project I’ve worked on. I’ve been developing it for the last 8 weeks or so. But today It’s gone live and I’ve introduced a small handful of students to it.

Some of the features include:

- Dynamic user creation using login scripts.
- Portfolio activation only available when all required fields are entered.
- Utilises the WYSIWYG Spaw editor.
- Dynamic photo gallery and file lister.
- Sorts users by Grade and Class

it’s located at http://intranet.moriacps.vic.edu.au/portfolios. At the moment there’s not too many active portfolios, but that number will grow substantially in the coming weeks.