A long day at work and late night shopping on Thursday usually results in some form of consumer therapy. Just so happens that David Jones was kind enough to have some of the new, thinner, black 30GB iPods in stock so I was soon parted with my hard earned cash. Now copying the entirety of my music collection over to it which is taking FOREVER!
Can't believe how thin the new iPods have gotten. Shame it's still not a complete video iPod but I guess I can always keep using my Ipaq to watch DivX movies anyway. Video podcasts will be more than enough to keep me happy visually. Probably for the best given the limited battery life during video playback.
We've had to deal with non-stop contruction noise at work which will likely continue for the next six months. At least now I have something to drown the jack hammers out. Rock on!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Conference
Just signed up and registered for the upcoming Game Connect conference that's going to be held in Brisbane. Normally the game conferences are all held in Melbourne but they're trying it in Brissie this year which is great! There'll be international speakers for keynotes along with classes and a careers market for people (like me) who are keen on getting into the Games Industry. It's going to be on the 1st of December which is just a week after we fly back from Malaysia so hopefully work will let me have some time off.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Give him some air
Eeek, turns out the regulator for the air conditioner had shorted out in the car so it had to be replaced. There goes $175 bucks which could have gone towards my "MP3 player for Christmas" fund. Thinking about either Microsoft's new Zune or being boring and forking out for an 80GB iPod. Choices choices.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Oh rusty nail!
The mystery source of our water problem has finally been uncovered.
The plumbers came by during the week and confirmed that our leakage was definitely coming out of the hot water tap in our garage (oh no!) which might have meant that we'd be responsible for paying to fix it (OH NO!!!). Luckily for us our body corporate is actually good for something and covers repairs in the garage (Yay!).
After breaking through the wall to get to the pipes the aforementioned plumbers (who didn't seem to care for mushrooms or jumping around much) discovered that the builders had hammered a nail into the hot water outlet. Doesn't do much for my confidence in the build quality of our home but at least fixing the problem was fairly simple.
Now we just need to get the car air-conditioner repaired... *sigh*
The plumbers came by during the week and confirmed that our leakage was definitely coming out of the hot water tap in our garage (oh no!) which might have meant that we'd be responsible for paying to fix it (OH NO!!!). Luckily for us our body corporate is actually good for something and covers repairs in the garage (Yay!).
After breaking through the wall to get to the pipes the aforementioned plumbers (who didn't seem to care for mushrooms or jumping around much) discovered that the builders had hammered a nail into the hot water outlet. Doesn't do much for my confidence in the build quality of our home but at least fixing the problem was fairly simple.
Now we just need to get the car air-conditioner repaired... *sigh*
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Fish People
We turned down an invitation from Kath and Andrew to browse the fun packed corridors of our local Ikea today with the intention of getting some house cleaning done and more importantly... refraining from expensive purchases for the house. Well the house certainly is cleaner but unsurprisingly we've once again managed to find a way to spend more money on our charming abode. In this case a new aquarium for our happy little fish friends.
Our old aquarium has served us reasonably well for the last two odd years that we've had it. Granted the Jebo has seen it's share of dramas including a melted lid from an overheated fuse and blinking lights from condensation but our fish have lived a content perhaps somewhat cramped existance in it. The latest development however has resulted in the quiet decline of the tank's air filter. Empathic owners that we are we figure our pets would like to continue breathing so it was time to say farewell to the old gal. I mean look at that gunk and rust.
Now no one in our family ever buys something new unless it's an upgrade so I was pretty darn keen to lookout for a bigger, better model while keeping within the spatial constraints of our counter top. Boy did we manage to get one (good price too) and this time we've settled for no less than two filters to suck all the nasties out of it. It even has a plastic plate over the lights to prevent a little condensation from turning our aquarium into an insurance claim.
The transfer was going to be a big one so we thought it best to move the fish to a holding cell temporarily. They weren't too impressed with the accomodation but thankfully they didn't have to stay there too long.
Now they have heaps of space to swim and grow. Yay!
Our old aquarium has served us reasonably well for the last two odd years that we've had it. Granted the Jebo has seen it's share of dramas including a melted lid from an overheated fuse and blinking lights from condensation but our fish have lived a content perhaps somewhat cramped existance in it. The latest development however has resulted in the quiet decline of the tank's air filter. Empathic owners that we are we figure our pets would like to continue breathing so it was time to say farewell to the old gal. I mean look at that gunk and rust.
Now no one in our family ever buys something new unless it's an upgrade so I was pretty darn keen to lookout for a bigger, better model while keeping within the spatial constraints of our counter top. Boy did we manage to get one (good price too) and this time we've settled for no less than two filters to suck all the nasties out of it. It even has a plastic plate over the lights to prevent a little condensation from turning our aquarium into an insurance claim.
The transfer was going to be a big one so we thought it best to move the fish to a holding cell temporarily. They weren't too impressed with the accomodation but thankfully they didn't have to stay there too long.
Now they have heaps of space to swim and grow. Yay!
Sunday, September 03, 2006
I'm a mapping
Als and I spent the weekend up in Toowoomba celebrating Father's day with John and Sheena. It was a great chance for me to spend more time working on the game although I'm sure that I must have looked rather peculiar being cooped up in the room coding away for hours on end.
Thankfully all that effort was not in vain. The game engine and interface are pretty much functional enough now for me to start planning my strategy for implementing the computer AI. To do this however I'd need more maps to use for training the computer opponents. I didn't however, want to keep editing these levels in Notepad... so enter the fruits of my labour this weekend.
It's still a fairly simple map editor but at least it does the job for now. Problem is I might start spending most of my time creating wacky maps rather than getting more work done now. :P
Thankfully all that effort was not in vain. The game engine and interface are pretty much functional enough now for me to start planning my strategy for implementing the computer AI. To do this however I'd need more maps to use for training the computer opponents. I didn't however, want to keep editing these levels in Notepad... so enter the fruits of my labour this weekend.
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It's still a fairly simple map editor but at least it does the job for now. Problem is I might start spending most of my time creating wacky maps rather than getting more work done now. :P
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