I installed SP3 for my sister onto her Dell Vostro 200 yesterday, and after rebooting got a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with the helpful error message: STOP: 0x0000007E (and a bunch of other addresses) I tried rebooting, and trying various combinations of logging startup, last known good...

It's funny how Linux is starting to get some of Windows' problems. The minor issue being that this one was handled a little better under Windows. I finally got NetworkManager talking to my wireless card. It turns out the problem was that the "normal" networking system was taking control and...

Heh, kinda funny place to leave the blog. No really, I'm ok. I survived and everything is fine. We are now back from Japan, it rocked. Can't wait for next year, all that.

Things have been mostly cruisey, but I'm in trouble now. I just got yelled at by Sandi. She had a migrane developing and went to bed early tonight, but just woke up and discovered me in the bar talking to guests at 2:30am (bar closes at 1am). She isn't real happy. :-S Aside from that things...

Sorry to tease you with another update but I simply must write that I got the surprise of my life last night when Stef (friend from last year that fell in love with skiing and decided to move to Jindy and work for the season) and her family turned up at dinner! She didn't email me to let me...

Another update. We are both good, the season is going well and things are cruisy. I have been teaching a heap more snowboard classes and am really enjoying it. Sandi is a little bit frustrated at the number of adults classes she is teaching (she asked to do mostly kids), but in general she...

Woohoo! We had about 2 feet of snow yesterday and last night and the day off today. I went out snowboarding and had a blast, and even Sandi went out skiing and mostly enjoyed it although the snow was a little heavy and hard going in spots. We have been told to expect more snow from a second...

Ok, time for another update. We have had issues with the wireless net connection here recently so they decided to bail out and look for a new system. We now have wireless back on a new system as a trial so I thought I'd update. Sandi has been a little sick over the last couple of...

Hi there, We are both well. Getting into the swing of things. Sandi has been getting involved with quite a few shows and sang a solo song on stage in a red faces event and didn't get gonged! I'm mostly doing spotlight for shows and have been teaching beginners for a while so I'm...

Well we have arrived again and I've finally had a chance to post an update. Alana dropped us at Canberra airport where Sandi finished packing (!!), after this we went to collect our E-tickets and check in to discover the booking had been cancelled! This was 5:45pm on Wednesday and a little...

Previously I have been an fan of IE even going so far as to say I'll be the last person in the world using IE when friends attempt to convert me (tabs are evil!). My reasoning behind this is simply that IE generally has enough hacks that almost any site will work in it. This is _very_ handy for...

As a result of playing for 2 minutes creating a temporary page for Sandi's new website and really liking the design, I decided to convert all my sites to that template. This has been an interesting challenge to integrate the new pictures application as well as this blog, but I think it has...

My new laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A100 which I now have dual-booting Windows XP and Debian Linux Testing (Lenny). It was given to me with Windows XP installed but I decided to also install Linux as most of the work I am doing is interfacing with other Linux systems and several tools I use...

I have been trying to work out how I can continue the web design work I am doing at the moment while overseas in Japan for 5 months. The amount of work is only a few hours a week so should be possible, but the time I can use the laptop Sandi and I share is minimal. Because of this I had resigned...

Ok, well after finally noticing that my blog was broken (due to system upgrade), and then getting around to doing something about it... I guess I should actually post. 1.5 years after the last post. Oh boy. I guess I should start with EL, cos that was the last thing mentioned. Loads of news,...

It been quite a while since I posted here and I guess I should post again (does anyone actually read this?) Anyway, things are ok. They would be better of course if we could pay for things, but alas that isn't always possible. To recify this situation I am looking for work (probably going to...

Well, if nothing else EL is addictive. I have reached the stage where I get together with a bunch of guild members and make lots of things and chat. Which takes time. Lots of time. This is ok at the moment, but naturally will have to change once I start working. It will be interesting to see...

Well one of Sandi's friends (and old work mates) introduced us to EL , which is basically a free version of WoW. It takes a bit of getting into, and is a little boring at times (you need to spend a lot of time doing particular activities to advance your character) but that's the same as any...

I decided to update my list of computer names (previously only recorded on the GeekSalad Forums , and host them locally cos I think its cool. So, here it is. http://www.grug.redirectme.net/naming.php

Well that was cool. It was a really small LAN, and I learnt what happens when you try to play Quake 4 on non-Direct X 9 Shader card (ATI 9200SE), but the highlight was masses of War 3 Frozen Throne (DotA-All Stars to be exact). The Quake thing was cool though. Basically, any texture that has...