Author: Chris

Now, don’t panic. This is the same blog as operated by Chris Jones (Born_Acorn), so don’t think you’re lost. I just changed the theme.

It’s been roughly two and a half months since the last bloggeration, so I thought I’d do another one. I don’t know if anyone is reading this, but I’ve drank a bit much and have absolutely nothing to do, so I’m writing one anyway.
In short, since the last time I blogged, there was the TT-Meet in Birmingham, which I did actually attend, theres some pictures in the gallery. Now, there aren’t many photos, and most of the ones there are poor. There is a good reason for this. I forgot my camera. So, what did I do? I bought one quickly from Argos before getting on the train to Birmingham. It was only cheap, the make was Vivitar, and I got what I paid for. At least the batteries were inclusive. The gallery link is here. There’s only five photos though.

I went to Spain. Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, to be specific, but they’re practically Spain anyway. There are pictures at my gallery too, taken with my old camera (an Olympus). While in Spain, I decided to upgrade my camera and purchase a better one. It’s apparently the best you can get before the SLR/DSLR cameras. I’d have gone better, but I’m still paying off my computer. I’m not exactly a camera buff anywho. Anyway, the gallery link is here. Only half the photos are there because the newer ones would eat too much space.

I’ve also installed a new processor for this computer – A Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Hurray. When I bought the computer back in March, I skimped on the processor to save money. Well. Now I have money, and so bought a high end one when Intel brought down their prices last month.
Oh, and yesterday I bought myself a Half Life 2 T-Shirt, and wore it to work today. Hurray again.

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I quite like it myself. I might buy even more geeky T-Shirts.

As I actually have nothing else to pay for, I’ve recently found myself with too much money. So, I’ve been making luxury purchases! The first thing I bought was a Creative Zen Vision:M. I hate iPods. They look funny, are too fiddly, and Steve Jobs has had a hand in them, and I don’t like him either as he has little hair.

I needed a new one, really. My old one was beginning to crash regularly, probably due to several drops down stairs. This new un also has a better and easier to use interface. I basically listen to it during my seven hours of work. Avox are a really cool company. Right now while it’s still growing they really don’t mind what we do. Casual wear (jeans, T-Shirt), mp3 players, heck, people even answer personal phone calls. As long as we pump out the records, they don’t mind.

Anywho, that was last month, I’ve spent the last few days setting up two new things. A new TV Card, and a digital terrestial aerial I bought. The latter took all of Sunday up. I mean. All of it. First it needed assembling, then attaching to the top of the house. We eventually ran the wire to my room to find it’s a tad short and I need to pull out my PC to use it. This Saturday we’ll be rewiring it with a longer one. It’s been quite fun though. I get all channels on freeview through my screen. It’s always on top, so right now while I’m typing this, an ad for Sky Movies Premiere is showing on Sky Three. How fun.

I’m looking forward to the big TT-Forums meet in Birmingham. Not so much meeting everyone else, but the train journey. Having not really been on the network since my Grandad died (he was a British Rail steam engine fireman, then diesel driver, and got practially free transport on the local trains, and a ride in the drivers room), the last time I used a train was to escape from Chester after my Theory test.

I could have driven to Birmingham and found a secure car park, but I’d rather see the world from a train. The tickets are much cheaper than I thought, after hearing all the citicism of high prices in the media.

That’s probably it for the next month or two. I barely update this thing for real anymore. :p

Very So.

(Still alive)

For some odd reason, Vista has done away with the web publishing wizard, which I actually used to get pictures onto my gallery, as it resized them and kept the quality. Now I have to use Irfanview to manually convert the sizes, and the quality seems to die. (and this is the best setting, too.)

It should finally arrive this week, as well as this, and this. I’ve also spent all day setting up the new router and it’s networks, however it all works now, unlike the old one which didn’t work very well.

My computer will externally look like this. It has a GeForce 8800GTS, which looks big and beefy. Therefore it must be good!