Speckled Green

Actually, I have nothing wicked to say, so just ignore the title. On that thought, when was the last time someone used the word ‘Wicked!’ when refering to something they found interesting?

On Thursday I got my wires for my braces changed. My 3rd experience of the sore teeth… and then he told me how to put on the elastics. How all these people who have and had braces ever put up with the annoying pain, and the elastics, I’ll never know (if it’s “because we had to”, that’s not a good enough excuse =]). So, learning to put them in has been… fun. THEY LOOK SO SMALL! How do they stretch that far?? Hopefully soon I’ll be good enough that I can do them by touch, and won’t need a mirror (yeah right, and I can own the Opera House next week).

Creative Arts Fest. on Thursday night apparently. I am NOT ready for it, but I guess playing rythem guitar for 1 song isn’t that hard, is it? With the continual change between having braces, not having an upper wire, and now again having an upper wire, is REALLY annoying when it comes to playing the Flute. Now I’ve got to practise my embrocure again… All in a days work I guess.

Happy Birthday on Saturday to Vicky. Happy Birthday to Justine on Sunday. Happy Birthday to Daniel on Monday (today).

I goz now.

I feel dead. Tired, sore in the head, and annoyed with myself. Had my two upper pre-molars removed (or I think they’re my upper pre-molars…). What ever it was, the needle scared me, A LOT. IT HURT SO MUCH (or so it seemed). At least until the numbing started. Read more »

Finally. Time to catch up.

Happy Birthday to Luke Wilis and Kenneth Chi on Wednesday! Happy Birthday to Jenny Wang and Christopher Nguen on Thursday! Happy Birthday to Kevin Zhu (the tall one) on Friday!

There, that’s over with. Exams done, and I’m already not looking forward to seeing my marks. I know I did bad (ohk, maybe I did “ok”, but for me, it’s bad). I didn’t study hard enough, early enough, so that’s my own fault. Good luck to anyone that hasn’t had their half-yearlies yet. Read more »

Unto the world, I offer this: Happy Birthday Julia! Oh, and my brother had his clarinet exam today (I think he was capabable of doing better, but didn’t put enough effort in…). If you want to know his mark, ask him yourself.

I find heaps of things “Interesting”. WARNING: Computer Jargon, read at own risk!
Anyways. I found this “interesting”. My Line speed with BigPond/Telstra’s ADLS2+ plan. I currently hover around 14000-20000 kbps (Kilobits per second) or about 1.75MB/s (MegaBytes per second) on average, which is a bit less than what I should be achieving (counting in latency and distance from the phone exchange (only 1km away!!!), which is ok), I should be achieving around about 2.1-2.3MB/s, but due to this and that, my speed is only around 1.75MB/s. My upload is worse!!!! I SHOULD be getting around 110-125KB/s (KiloBytes per second), (EPIC! That’s as fast as the download on ADSL1) but I’m only getting around 80-90KB/s (KiloBytes per second). Yeah. I know. I shouldn’t be complaining. But, really, My upload is SO unreliable sometimes. Sometimes I achieve close to 105kB/s, sometimes I only manage 40 or 30kB/s (one site only gave me 8kB/s!!!). Weird… Anyways, I’ve finished complaining about it. It drops out a lot because it’s ADSL (it needs to Sync with the exchange server, and can often lose sync, so it looses the connection), but I guess I have to deal with that.

Gee… that was long. Now, Anthony. You might not be paying heaps for your TechNet subscription, but it still gotta cost SOMEONE at the radio station a fair amount (TechNet Direct 12 month subscription costs around AU$350-400 from the website, and apparently that’s without tax like GST!! That makes it near $450, nearly $500 a year. In my mind, that is a lot). So, in the end, it’s worth what you get for it, isn’t it?

Still need to get myself a 7-pin internal SATA cable with a right-angled pin on one end for my new HDD. Proving slightly more difficult to pick up than the RAM and HDD. Needs to be 2ft long as well… I wonder where I could buy one…

Shakespeare is being his usual self and managing to prove hard for me to memorise (I swear, if it were in modern day language, a comedy line and on TV, I could have it half memorised in one sitting…). I’m fretting. I’m panicing. I’m anxious. I am sure I am SO inadequately prepared for these exams from all my procrastination that I’m really gonna hate myself for the next 5 years. And my mum isn’t gonna be happy with me. Anyways, back to work. Spent enough time on this already.

Totally random title. Don’t know how I came up with it. First off. Happy belated Birthday to my brother, who turned the ripe old age of 13 yesterday!

Yeah, so, many of you would have noticed I got a Facebook account. Thinking on it, I guess the main reason I got it was to stop people telling me to get it, and the finality of my caving into peer pressure (kinda contradictory there?). I must say, it certainly is just as addicting as people say it is, which is why I will force myself to stay only short periods of time on it a week… yeah, right, like that’s going to work. Do I seem like I have that much self-control?

The Release Candidate (1?) of Windows 7 came out today. Well, yesterday, April 30th, but it was today because of the timezone differences. On May 5th, (6th in Australia), the RC will become publicly available (it’s currently only available to TechNet and MSDN users… but they pay heaps for their subscriptions, so I guess they deserve it). The RC apparently is definately a step up on the beta, but is still truely a beta version in itself. I’m gonna try and get the RC when it becomes public (haven’ yet been able to use my copy of the Beta…).

Well, talking about computers, I’m currently waiting on the purchase of a right-angled 7-pin internal Serial ATA cable for my new HDD. I’ve installed an extra 2GB of RAM, so now I have 3GB of installed RAM (2x512MB + 2x1GB). Yay.