blog migration

Ok, migration complete. Live Spaces was shutting down so I’ve moved everything I could over to wordpress. Nothing new here, move along 🙂

Testing Live Writer from Live Photo Gallery

Quick pic of my new laptop coupled with my old kit works alright as dual monitor setup.

Facebook

Okay… so now I find myself on Facebook.  Even more reason why I’m unlike to write here much.

Blogging From Word

Okay, call me stupid… I’ve only just realised that I can use MSWord2007 to publish to my blog site L

Oh well… Does that mean I’ll blog more entries more often? No, I just wanted to try it J

Anyway, too much has happened in the last 6 months to even bother thinking about writing catch up entries.

I’m thinking about implementing my own blog site rather than using this one (just one part of a large network reconfig I’m doing).

Maybe I’ll just do "twitter" style one-liners or something, want to concentrate on re-configuring my network first. Might start publishing again after that.

early starter

Hmmm… might be time for (yet another) computer

now i’m mobile

ok, so I have had smart phones and pda’s for a few years now, but this is my first blog entry using one! Having a slide out keyboard makes it relatively easy I guess… but not much chance of hitting 60 words per minute touch typing 😦
Anyway, now I’m not a mobile blog virgin any more.

Thought I’d try this Virtual Earth tool…

Where I usually work

 

Okay, for those who can’t tell… yes, that is a coal stockyard.  I’m currently contracting to the Hunter Valley Coal Chain and I sit in an office on the water next to the top of the white vessel in the map.  No, this does not make me a bad person 🙂

internet speed up

My new 8Mb/s ADSL kicked in tonight.  Getting a link speed of 7648Kb/s down / 384Kb/s up.  Did a few tests before and after (see chart below) and getting over 6Mb/s for downloads from Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra but Brisbane only have me 2.5Mb/s for some reason…  busy net traffic at the time I guess.  I’m happy with that (compared with 1.2Mb/s before the change), using same hardware and same monthly cost, no contract… just accepted a reduced download limit and data shaping back to 64KB if exceed 10GB.

 

I read somewhere that Telstra are rolling out 80Mb/s (no, that is not a typo – 80!) on their NextG network within 3yrs!  What the…?  Wonder how much that is going to cost per month!??!!  So my mobile phone will be able to download 10 times faster than my home ADSL connection!

Nothing special

Haven’t written anything for ages so thought I’d put something down while waiting on software updates to install…

 

Running Vista on main desktop and laptop now, not too bad, mostly lack of drivers and no vista updates to software being the main hassles I’ve come across.  I quite like the new interface.

 

Boinc has been up and down.  Some team members stopped crunching credits so we’ve dropped in rankings a fair bit.  My new computer chews through them quite well but I’m personally down on crunching as well due to me reconfiguring my machines in recent weeks (Vista’s, firewall, etc.).

 

Baby boy has been keeping me awake at times as well, a few nights sleeping on the floor in his room hasn’t helped in combination with late nights reconfiguring computers – that’s life though.

 

Went to a poker night (6 hand Texas Hold’em) at a mates place on the weekend, first money game for me and ended up coming second ($4 profit – Woo Hoo) – big stake game

 

Anyway, software installed… until next time.

Computer

Hey… no entries for a couple of months and now my 3rd in one day!!!

 

Finally got my new computer built:

 

Intel E6700 Core 2 Duo – dual core 2.66GHz

MSI P965 Platinum

Apacer 2x1GB PC6400 DD2-800

XFX 7600GT XXX Edition

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s

550W TR2

Windows Vista RTM

 

All running sweet so far, even have boinc crunching out the seti units 🙂