Risk

Ah, well, I shouldn’t have, but I wasted a good six hours last night playing Risk with the lads (Laura, Damien, Anton & Stef). It was an interesting game… it took quite a while for anyone to cement much of a lead. As usual, whenever Damien pulled together any significant power mass he would attack… Read more

#geektree [28/3/2001] – Dialup vs DSL, evil Dingoblue & Telstra, Damn Peers, quiet brothels

This little sub-thread will look at the #geektree irc channel we all used to hang out in, picking out some juicy highlights…. man, I was a feisty little bugger back then…. All censoring added after the fact, unfortunately. :) [4:23] Sleazball: Presently achieving a beefy 0.6k/s.[4:23] Sleazball: Are there any major links down anywhere, any… Read more

Thesis and early rising

1) Thesis. Yep, more of the same. Drilled a few holes, filled back a whole lot of rough edges, and got everything in there more or less happily. I haven’t got the necessary materials to screw the motherboard in, so I think it’s going to have to be bluetack at this point. :) 2) Got… Read more

Geektree

Geektree. Ah, Geektree. My god, where to begin… I guess the beginning works. But wait, no, that’s too cliche… let’s start in the middle – to hell with chronology or context! By our VCE years, Geektree was a thriving hub of activity. At our school, the venerable and prestigious Mount Eliza Secondary College, there was… Read more

Chameleon

A while ago, when I first released Rotated Windows, I used sitx or somesuch as the archive format. Someone complained – of course – so as a bit of a sarcastic riposte I also put up archives in every other format I could – zip, bz2, gzip, sit, arj, rar, etc. It was a laugh,… Read more