Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
2009 -
10.27
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I had to chase 3 shops before I found a copy of Star Trek. JB Hi Fi incredibly were shut for Stocktake! I can’t believe that a Blue-Ray disc that I’m likely to pay top dollar for, couldn’t be obtained from JB Hi Fi on the day! Next was Big W, being close, and still no banana. Finally I had to resort to Sanity (one of my last choices for media shopping) to purchase it at a whopping $42. Still The movie is top notch reproduction, and plenty of extras, including a 3rd disc digital copy with OS X software to place the copy in iTunes & allow transfer to my iPhone. Hmm, I like this package. I could almost cite this as the most interesting Blue-Ray title I’ve yet bought! I can hardly wait until tonight to watch it, but I’m determined to get some useful tasks done today before enjoying this one tonight.
Hmm, that’s a lot of “!” in the above. 🙂
Not all of my trip out this morning was mindless selfishness. I also set up Dad’s Digital Set Top box for him, although he’s going to have to upgrade his connecting cable for best picture. Still it work’s and that’s the main thing to satisfy him that he’s got his money’s worth.
2009 -
10.27
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After being awakened brutally by the Furbag at 05:30 and unable to return to sleep I was up bright and early.
Looking forward to picking up the Star Trek Movie today sometime. Hopefully it’s in, and hopefully they don’t run out.
2009 -
10.18
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Well for a fortnight where I was going to financially behave myself, I certainly fell in a heap this weekend.
First there were some additions to the “toy drawer” for Friday night’s little escape, then today there was another little crumble when I came home with two external drives (USB), one terabyte drive for a new multimedia store, and the other a 320 Gig to backup the iMac. Both are working swimmingly. I picked up a cheap arse keyboard and some blank DVD’s at the same time, so all in all a total breakdown of resolute saving this fortnight!
However I’ve managed to not be burned by JB Hifi this week. 🙂
2009 -
10.09
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It’s been a good week since I got back to BAU ata work, Transition now behind me! It could be quite intersting politically at work soon, but that might get documented in a later post.
So a good week has been had, and to top it off, I managed to pickup Star Trek the Original Series: Season 2 on Blue-Ray. This is undoubtedly my favourite season and Amok Time is probably my all time favourite STOS episode.
Furbag is a touch put out because I’ve moved her food bowl etc to the bathroom rather than the Study. It’s somewhat amusing to watch a cat so usually in control deal with the confusion. There’s no doubt the senility has yet to set in, so all will be well in her world soon again, however I’m sure I’ll pay though soon.
2009 -
10.03
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Slipped out to catch Surrogates on Thursday, and was pleasantly surprised. I’d not call it a “Blockbuster” by anyone’s standards, but it was a thoughtful experience. Elements of I Robot (the film not book), the Matrix Trilogy, as well as The Island and Gattaca. A range of others also: the ideas portrayed are not exactly new, but it’s short and to the point so you’re not slugged for 2+ hours on something that’s really only worth a 90 minute film! It has it’s points…they’re not without relevant current examples of the potential.
2009 -
09.01
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Well as you’d expect the “upgrade” to Snow Leopard went flawlessly, although unfortunately after said upgrade I seem to have lost sounds in my IM client Proteus. As a consequence I’ll just go back to using Adium instead until it’s fixed. Everything else is working as expected except the RSS feeds in mail. But still I’m sure that will sort itself out too, I may just need to “tweak” something after the upgrade.
2009 -
08.29
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Well as promised I finally got around to rescaling the photos to get them up on the net.
Outside View Preinstall
Preinstall inside
Confirming size
Also checking from inside
Checking workmanship
Further confirmation
From the inside
Acid Test
“…WTF?”
Bastard, you were waiting!
There’s no doubt after a couple of weeks now she’s enjoying the freedom herself. No longer does she have to wait for the haphazard approach of the human in her house!
2009 -
08.11
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It seems my Blue-Ray collection is growing rapidly. In the less than 12 months I’ve had a BD Player, the number of titles I’ve managed to find has reached 54 Movies, plus the Firefly series and Star Trek Original Series Season 1. This is however about the limit of titles I’m interested in at the moment until I see the most recent Star Trek, the George Lucas staples (who the f*ck knows when) & the Alien Quadrilogy (due by end of year I believe). There are possibly another dozen titles I’d LIKE to see on BD, but they’re not commercially popular, so I’m unlikely to see them in the forseeable future.
2009 -
08.11
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A friend finally managed to convince me I needed one of these little critters. I have to admit I can’t believe I managed so long without one. I think I’m almost ashamed that I have ignored such for so long.
It only required minor tweaking to be the perfect solution for me. Not only that, it had OS X software that’s excellent.