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Moving to new server

Nick — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:46:40 +0000

inocuo.org is moving to a new server over the next few weeks, so there certainly won’t be any posting in that time. Although that’s nothing new at the moment. With the new server will hopefully come a new CMS and … Continue reading →

Lack of updates…

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:40:19 +0000

Yes, I know there’s been a big lack of updates here on inocuo. I’ve been finding myself spread a little thin, and inocuo has suffered because of it. So what readers I have left – don’t expect regular updates… ^_^

Anyway, stuff’s been good. Trang and I had a lovely holiday in Byron, Trang’s sister Ly came to visit from America, it was my nephew’s first birthday, and we’re going to visit Helena for the long weekend in Canberra. Should be fun!

Anniversary!

Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:26:37 +0000

Well, today it is seven years since Trang and I started going out. That’s a long time, by any measure, but it certainly has been the time of my life.

Here’s to many more!

At manifest!

Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:36:08 +0000

Well, it’s Sunday morning of manifest, and it’s all good so far. I don’t have a digital camera with me this year, so I’m hoping to organise with someone to get some photos to put in the gallery.

Manifest!

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 06:46:59 +0000

Well, I’m in Melbourne for Manifest. I’m pretty excited – it should be excellent.

Had a great time last weekend at Keith’s LAN party – although I was a bit twitchy after 8 hours of gaming… Thanks to Keith.

Untitled Post

Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:12:26 +0000

What’s been happening lately… Let’s see…

Saw Spiderman 2 on the weekend – it was a good movie, but not a great one. There was one scene in particular that was pure Sam Raimi, in a hospital, with a chainsaw. I’ll say no more. ^_^

The Matrix is going to be released on DVD as a ten-disc boxed set! Now I’m really glad that the only Matrix DVD I’ve bought is the Animatrix.

Apparently a jduge has been suspended for masturbating in court. Not much to say about this one…

Slightly disturbing link now – and I really do mean that. It’s not for the squeamish. Apparently Japanese internet denizens have made something of a celebrity of the 11-year old who killed one of her schoolmates.

Lots of movies…

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:24:26 +0000

I’ve seen heaps of movies lately – they’ve all been at least reasonably good.

Troy was OK, but I was surprisingly annoyed at Achilles not being gay. I think this review summed it up best. Achilles: Cousin. He’s my cousin. Cousin. Totally my cousin. In conclusion: Cousin.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was very good, much more a film than the previous two. The thing I was really disappointed about was that they cut the explanation about who Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs were. Apart from that, though, great movie.

The Day After tomorrow was not a great movie. It was entertaining, purely by how bad it was. The CG was awesome, but me and Rommel spent the entire movie guessing who was going to bite it next.

Shrek 2 was very good, but not quite as amazing as the first one. Antonio Banderas certainly stole the show as Puss-In-Boots.

Lots has happened…

Fri, 28 May 2004 01:25:57 +0000

Since I last posted, Trang and I were sick with a bug she brought back from Thailand, got better, rearranged the house, and have generally had a great time.

I went and saw Van Helsing – it was atrocious, in a mildly entertaining kind of way. It seemed to me like the writers and director had a checklist of old-school horror movie cliches they had to include. Mob with torches and pitchforks? Check. Windmill? Check. Burning Windmill? Check. Angst over whether to kill a loved one who has become a werewolf? Check. The list goes on.

A bucketload of links in my ‘to post’ folder, so here goes:
Stalin vs Hitler (in comic form?) Those wacky Russians!

The OS-Tan are a bit of an internet phenomenon, although I wouldn’t be surprised to see them advertising Windows one day…

Tom’s Hardware Guide did a feature about Xbox Media Center on the Xbox that does a great job of explaining just how awesome it is.

A warning to would-be Internet scammers – if you get unlucky, you’ll mobilise a whole crowd of people against you and end up getting screwed over yourself…

An interesting article here about the technical differences between Shrek 1 and 2. Sounds pretty impressive.

This one’s fascinating. Apparently, there was a photographer in Russia around the turn of the century who took full colour photographs by taking negatives through different colour filters and ending up with three black and white images that represented the different colours. Just like in Photoshop! And so, people from the Library of Congress have digitally composited the colour channels and reconstructed the colour photographs of Russia before the First World War. Pretty amazing.

More serious, now. Benjamin Kuipers, a Computer Scientist from the University of Texas in Austin, has a number of well-thought-out articles about terrorism. This one, titled ‘How to Defeat Terrorism’ is very interesting. Also interesting is his parable, ‘The Seeds of War‘.

Trang’s back, and sweet LAN action

Tue, 11 May 2004 02:36:54 +0000

Trang got back yesterday! it’s sooo good to have her back, even if it was only ten days. ^_^

Had a great weekend of LAN playing at Rommel’s – I reckon Rommel and I probably ended up playing for about 20 out of the 24 hours of Saturday. mmmm, Twitchy.

Looking forward to catching up on sleep this week, and then a bit of flat rearranging on the weekend…

Supanova and stuff

Tue, 04 May 2004 02:52:29 +0000

Well, Trang left on her Thailand adventure Friday night, and I’ve been trying to keep myself busy since then.

The Xbox modification went really well, as did transferring about 40G of anime to it. ^_^ I’ve watched the latest episode of Naruto on it – it’s so sweet.

Saturday was Supanova day. Rommel and I met up with Joey and Vikki from the tamaboards and we spent the day being way geeky. It was great. And we went to karaoke in the evening. So now I have actually, at long last, sung at karaoke.

Sunday was wushu, then into work for a Champ upgrade, then home to hang out and then watch Kill Bill Vol 2. (which was great.)

All this has meant that I’ve been busy enough to distract myself from missing Trang too much. I probably sound way pathetic, but this week is the longest amount of time we’ve spent apart for at least a year or two. So it can be a bit hard sometimes.