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August 31, 2006
50's dancers, with self
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August 29, 2006
tursday; this must be
singapore
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August 26, 2006
auckland helicopter
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saturday; this must be
sydney
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August 25, 2006
friday. this must be
Christchurch
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August 23, 2006
wed. this must be...
Auckland
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August 14, 2006
house on the rock puppet
OK - life is getting back to normal, so what a better time to post abnormal House on the Rock photos.
A note to my father who likes the 'all sizes' link on my flickr pages. I've recently changed my flickr account so that only 'friends and family' are able to see the 'all sizes' option. So Dad, you'll need to sign up for a flickr account (it's free) and I'll add you as 'family' - that way you'll still be able to see the hi-res images. And (hint hint) you can upload photos too :-)
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August 13, 2006
gypsy germaine
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August 05, 2006
cold update
well, I've done a good job this week incubating a lovely middle ear infection (right ear.) So typical of my body I was able to make it though countless meetings - and halfway through the last meeting Friday afternoon, I started getting the ear ache. Stopped by the doctor on the way home (OK, Amy made me go) where I got a good talking to about working all week. Now I'm on antibiotics. Should be right by Monday. Wow, what a week.
Posted by yankinoz at 09:10 AM | Comments (1)
August 03, 2006
new company update
old company: Rob leader of team of 6 with 6 more via the matrix dotted line.
new company: Rob leader of 3 people who lead 40 more across 4 nations - no matrix management.
Me likey new company.
Now if I could just get over this damn cold!
Posted by yankinoz at 07:18 PM | Comments (2)
August 01, 2006
a new era
The company I've worked for over the past 11 and a half years, the company that brought me to Australia 9 years ago has, as of last night, ceased to exist. It's been acquired by a similar sized company and as of this very moment the merged entity is drawing it's first breaths. Myself and most of my colleagues are holding ours.
I don't typically blog about work, but this merger has been on the cards for a couple of months now and to be honest it's been on my mind rather seriously for the past couple of weeks. I'm fairly sure (better than 90%) that I have a job in the new company. But hey, you never really know do you? So I've been a little stressed - and that's culminated in me picking up a flu bug over the weekend (still with a rather sore throat.)
Unfortunately photography hasn't been an effective outlet. If you want to know what I've been up to, read on.
I've been spending most my spare time messing around with our TeFaux HTPC - putting in some quit fans from Arctic Cooling - I can't recommend the 'Silencer' series of VGA Coolers high enough. And the Freezer 8 Pro CPU Cooler keeps the Intel 630 CPU (a notoriously hot CPU) running 10 full degrees cooler when the PC is processing Digital TV. And it's fan is spinning around 450 RPM - can't hardly hear it. The next step is to replace the noisy Abit Northbridge heatsink/fan with a Zalman passive heatsink - that was on the cards for the weekend until the flu knocked me down.
Then there's ComSkip. Way cool little application that can strip commercials out of recorded TV. It's highly configurable and I must say it's taking a while to get it 'tuned' to Australian TV - if only all the channels here would run the commercial breaks the same - you know a nice long black pause with silence then the commercials. It would be so much easier. So I'm testing it, tweeking it, stripping commercials. Hmm, I think this is why Australian TV is against Home Theatre PCs... ha!
And I'm learning Chinese (Mandarin specifically) - on Monday nights. It's a really interesting language and is going to be hard to learn - it's so different from English. So far I'm about as far as 'hello, how are you?' and counting to 10. I haven't yet mastered 1-10. The interesting things: I'm finding myself remembering previously forgotten Spanish words - like I've woken up some sort of language part of my brain and the multiple vowel finals with 4 tonal variations may just help me finally master the Australian accent where 'beer' is a two syllable word and 'know' has like six.
Posted by yankinoz at 06:32 PM | Comments (6)
i'm sorry interweeb, i've neglected you
yes, yes dear interweeb. I've neglected my blog. I've neglected my flickr account. and yesterday, dear interweeb you punished me. punished me by taking down telstra bigpond in my area. yes, no interweeb to my abode, and thus no blog on the interweeb since it's hosted from a spare PC in a spare room. I promise I won't neglect you any more.
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