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Festive Season!

Nick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:34:05 +0000

So the festive season is complete, and I’m back at work.

I had a really good festive season. Spent some time with the family, and time with Trang’s family as well. Spent an awesome couple of days with my dad, beginning construction of a new entertainment cabinet, which became particularly relevant later on in the holidays. Now all I need to do is finish it!

But I am, as you can see from my gamercard, really enjoying my 360. Especially since I bought a 42″ LCD 1080p TV. It. is. AWESOME.

It’s a Hitachi L42X01, in case you care, and I’m pretty happy with it, as you can tell. However, the HD tuner built in has a baffling omission: you can’t delete single channels from its database. Which means that I’m currently stuck with 20-odd channels of crap I don’t care at all about, with about 10 channels of crap I care slightly about.

I’ve also just ordered a component cable for the original xbox today - I don’t know if I’ll try to move my movie-playing functionality over to the 360 or not - probably not at this point.

New look for inocuo

Nick — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:00:20 +0000

So, you may have noticed I’ve updated the theme.

If your browser looks broken, get a new one.

Awesome birthday is awesome!

Nick — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:32:33 +0000

So, I had the best birthday EVAR!

Awesome presents, great party, and great friends made for an excellent birthday weekend!

Plus, I’m an Xbox 360 owner now. WOOOOOOO!

Finished Ep2, playing Bloodlines

Nick — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:47:28 +0000

So, I’ve finished HL2 Episode 2. I ended up just turning down the detail so that my machine would handle to multiple striders and hunters without gagging, and it only took me one try after that. Guess an increased framerate does make a difference after all…

I started playing Vampire: Bloodlines, and it seems pretty good so far. I don’t think it would make much sense unless you’ve at least taken a glance at an old World of Darkness book, but luckily I have, so I’m lucky in that respect. I’m playing a Malkav, and it’s great fun talking crap to everyone…

HL2 Episode 2 and Cartoon intros

Nick — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:52:07 +0000

Previously in Nick’s life:
- Mal bought Halo 3, and I finished it on his 360, scoring myself some achievements in the process. I’m pretty happy with my current gamerscore, since I don’t have a 360.
- I bought the Orange Box on Steam. I love steam. I get the games I would have bought anyway at FANTASTIC prices, thanks to the currently-great Aussie dollar, and also the warm feeling of having purchased software where most of the money went to the creators.
- Portal was the best game I’ve played in YEARS.
- I paid around AUD$15 for Vampire: Bloodlines on Steam as well. Great deal.

HL2 Episode 2 has been great, but I really, really hate the Hunters. Especially in the last big fight, there’s heaps of other stuff going on, and they’re taking away 1/3 of your health and armour in one salvo. And they are difficult to kill with your standard weapons… It seems you basically have to run them over with your car to kill them quickly. Unfortunately, my machine struggles with rendering car + everything else going on…

In a completely unrelated note, presented for your edification, intro sequences for the same cartoon.

Firstly, one you may be familiar with:

And next, one you probably haven’t seen before - the Japanese intro for the same show.

It seems to me that the Japanese one contains a much higher awesome quotient than the Western one. Plus, they somehow manage to make Jubilee look bad-ass. I wouldn’t have thought it was even possible.

Halo 3 Long weekend!

Nick — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:29:20 +0000

So, I’m going to be minding Mal’s Xbox 360 this weekend, and he’s just bought Halo 3. I’m going to try and finish the Campaign, hopefully on Heroic or Legendary. I’ll post what I think when I’m done.

I also finished God of War II the other day. I’m really impressed with God of War overall - they’re entertaining games to play, although God Mode on GoW2 is a son-of-a-bitch at times. I don’t think I’m game to try Titan Mode, which is harder still…

Quoted for Truth

Nick — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:24:28 +0000

This image is from 4chan’s /co (comics) board. I think it’s completely, and utterly true.

If you can’t read it, click the image to enlarge.

The Adventures of Dr McNinja - UPDATED

Nick — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:47:09 +0000

I don’t think it’s possible for an image to contain more win than this.

I sure hope I don’t get Paul Bunyan’s disease and transform into a giant lumberjack!

And I wish I had a gorilla receptionist!

UPDATED - I stand corrected.
Dr McNinja is a webcomic. Rock on.

Shred^Max and a lesson on routers

Nick — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:19:18 +0000

So, I borrowed Shay’s axe from Mal last night for some shredding action at Marc’s place. I’m always surprised by how much having other people watching you makes you focus in that game. Oh, and a pro face off against a similar-level of skill player = AWE. SOME.

I learned a valuable lesson on configuring routers yesterday: Always assume it’s not going to work, no matter how much preparation you do. All you can do is mitigate the amount of time it takes you to figure out the inevitable problems by having as much reference material as possible easy to hand.

I didn’t have any reference material yesterday, so it took me six hours to find the two commands I needed to enter. I was tired.

Site update?! WTF!

Nick — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:48:15 +0000

Yes, I haven’t been posting a lot for a long, long time. I think that it’s to do with a lack of focus on exactly what I want to use this site for.

When I first started a blog using Blogger, back in 2000, there weren’t the easy social-networking style sites that exist today. Now, due to my penchant for signing up for stuff, I have this site, a LiveJournal, a Facebook, and a picasaweb for photos.

So I need to think about what the hell I’m using this site for. I’m not going to get rid of it - 7 odd years of history are not thrown away lightly. I am going to give it a redesign, get a bit of Web 2.0 action going on hopefully, and start using it more for howtos and so on for technical stuff, and try and keep life-update stuff to a minimum, or on other services.