Archive for April, 2008
The weekend
I awoke with a phone call today at 12noon, I was sleeping in because I got home late from Kirsten’s 21′s last night. I answered the call, and my sister said “have you forgotten something?”, it was her 18th birthday today, I remembered, I was just asleep. So I said happy birthday to her, and she was all happy :-).
I installed OSX 10.5.2 (x86 version) on a spare laptop HDD I had floating around, it seemed to install fine, but failed when it came to booting. So instead I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 and installed that. It worked beautifully, picked up everything in the laptop. I plugged my Logitech V220 into the laptop, and it “just worked”, I’m loving how far linux/bsd has come!
Then later this afternoon, Chell and I went down to the strand for a late lunch / dinner. We cooked up a BBQ, had sausages, steak, mushrooms and capsicum, it was so delicious. Afterwards, we came home, had a bit of a sleep and watched some TV. We are going to lay down again soon and have some ice cream and watch season 2 of Nip/Tuck :-).
Tags: BBQ, Birthday, Linux, OSX
Head-unit & Speakers
Well Josh went and bought a new head-unit on Tuesday, so he came around that night with his old one, and we wired it up in the Magna. It was quite a pain, since it was dark we had a lamp hooked up, and the center spacia in the Magna was a pain getting out too. But it’s all installed and working – thanks Josh!
Today Chell and I went shopping as it was her birthday yesterday, so she got money e.t.c 
Chell ended up getting her nails done, and they look damn sexy! 
Chell also bought some stuff for her hair to help keep it straight longer when she straightens it. Chell also bought a new set of 6×9′s for the Magna, they were $110, but on sale for $70. I got them all hooked up today, and they sound great just running off the head-unit – thanks baby!
Well that’s all for now, better go get ready for work
’98 TF Magna Solara
On Tuesday Rachelle and I went down to the car dealership to pick up our Magna. It’s a ’98 model, is tinted and has 17″ rims, doesn’t have any dents. It also has a head-unit and speakers, but the laser must be dying as it doesn’t play-back cd’s properly, the radio will do for now :-).
I ended up getting the car for $8000, that’s with registration and insurance, so wasn’t a bad deal. The car has 134,000k’s on the clock which isn’t too bad for the price. The ride itself is quite smooth, and we’re not used to being so low again :-P.
We both love the car, we will eventually change it and make it our own (re-spray, head-unit e.t.c.). Well, that’s enough talking for now, you can view the pics over in the Gallery.
Tags: Cars
Untitled…
Rachelle went to Cairns for the night / weekend with Kirsten and Amanda yesterday. They drove up and are spending the night there and going to the markets today to do some shopping. I asked Josh if he wanted to come around, so he ended up turning up about 8:30pm and we ordered some pizza and played CounterStrike for a couple of hours, then he ended up leaving around about 1:30am or so, it was a great night, good to catch up :-).
I still haven’t gone to sleep yet 
It’s so weird not having Rachelle here. I just haven’t felt tired, so I decided to make my time that I am awake useful and I have washed some clothes and done almost all the rest of the folding
I might end up going to bed shortly as the sun will be up soon, once I get some sleep I plan to finish what’s left of the folding, and then take the car and get it all washed and clean so it’s all nice and tidy for when Rachelle gets back I will try and clean the house up a bit and have a bit of a nap before Rachelle returns, as we are going to go out for dinner
Well, the sun is set to come up in two hours, so I might go to bed and hopefully sleep before it wakes me up
Goodnight (or good morning?)
Tags: Gaming
Notepad2 editor
I generally do all my HTML/PHP/CSS editing in Notepad, and one fallback with the Notepad that comes with windows is syntax highlighting. I found this neat little program called Notepad2, which is lightweight, doesn’t require any installation, and doesn’t change anything in the registry which is a bonus!
The installation file weighs in at 247KB, a small amount of data for such a feature-rich notepad. Another bonus is you can also replace the default Notepad that comes with windows with Notepad2, which you can view howto’s for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
I highly recommend checking out the Notepad2 website, or downloading Notepad2 (v2.1.19 at time of writing), you wont be disappointed with it.