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After going to the drupal meetup in Johannesburg (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24383837792 ) - I always feel so inspired. Hence the blog entry and the tagadelic module running on the right hand side.

Your honor, exhibit A - the gun. Exhibit B - mother superior. I have no idea why she jumped the gun. Still. To this day.

In other conclusions and happenings - lost the POE port on my RB333 so I am having to split the network cable to hopefully still carry POE and 4 wires to carry data to another port. (yeah, sucks) - i think it was an act of God.

I think I officially prefer PS3 to xbox360. The xbox360 is pretty loud for a media center. There is a 80 gig ps3 bundle with MGS4 coming out in July to SA (according to animeworx). Will look at getting it there.

I also have a friend in the states bringing me back a new camera! (yay, last one got stone) - So im getting a Nikon D300 with 18-200VR lens. Then also an iPhone which i plan to hack to work on CellC. (well, thats the plan).

Oooh, and then just a punt for LSD - Linux System Dynamics (http://www.lsd.co.za) (gotta keep rankings up you know)

So its Sunday! And mothers day. I hope everyone is spending time with their mom. My mom is in Natal, so i don't get to see her.

We had our photography assignment where our whole class went to the botanical gardens. Pics I took

Last night was a good evening. I had one date and got one phone number all in one day. (and i will be in trouble if this blog gets found!) - I doubt anyone reads it, so its ok. I'm just doing it as a momento time capsule thing. Maybe aliens find it one day and ponder our lunacies. (heh. pun)

Robyn was soo kind to lend me her iTrip. It was great, except my ipod nano kept rebooting. So after updating to the latest firmware and that not helping, I had a look at the songs. They were fine except for an id3v2 tag. Seems like my iPod doesnt like them, so

emerge id3v2
cd /home/mp3
find . -iname "*.mp3" -exec id3v2 -d {} \;

Currently its busy deleting all my id3v2 tags. I hope i don't need them. oh well.

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So this guy goes to his granny and says, gran, have you seen a bottle in my room marked LSD.
The granny says, fuck the bottle, have you seen the dragon in the kitchen.

And thats my news :) Take it easy.

So its been a while since i wrote here. I guess blogging is kinda like a gym contract, you do it for the first week, and then you get bored. (Except there are way hot chicks at the gym, where blogging hasn't really got me any).

Whats been happening... well, i guess im really excited because I bought a new camera lens. (haha, i know, lame!!) - but its nice. Nikkor 18-200mm VR. So thats great. The photography course has been really nice, but I think it will be a while before the knowledge becomes second nature. (as opposed to first nature. guess God's got rights on that one). This Sunday we have an assignment at the botanical gardens at 6:30 in the morning (light is best!), so i'll hopefully get one great pic I can post up here...

I watched - The Departed the other night. I enjoyed the film (after working out Matt Daemon and Leo are different people. ok ok, i know, i suck!). The ending is particularly good. My favourite line is when Jack Nicholson says - "We're all on our way out, act accordingly." - kinda true.

Other than that im pretty addicted to facebook. Its great! You can find me on there. So can the american government. but hey...

Just an update on some random happenings. Firstly Facebook. If you haven't joined, join and link up to friends. I've found so many friends from school and around its great. Not to mention if you find a hot girl, you can say, hey, you know so and so and she knows him who knows me, so thats why im talking to you and im not really some wierd crazy stalker dude. want your panties back? oh. link

I've been having a massive fight to get my stupid 3G card swopped out on a Dell D820 notebook. Earlier Huwei cards had an issue. I got hold of a Globetrotter Option card which needs the Nozomi drivers to work. Luckily these dont compile under 2.6.20. Anyways, here's the fix that got it to compile

2.2alpha release in nozomi.c

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<       INIT_WORK(&dc->tty_flip_wq_struct, tty_flip_queue_function);
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>       INIT_WORK(&dc->tty_flip_wq_struct, tty_flip_queue_function, dc); 

Tonight Neil and I will be heading out to the suburbs for some night photography. Assuming its not raining, we dont freeze, or get mugged, hopefully i'll post some shots here tomorrow.

So this weekend i went home to Mooi River to see my parents. Along with seeing them, we also got to help my dad sell sausages on Saturday at the Highlands Scottish games at Fort Nottingham. We sold about 650 sausages. So that was great. I also watched Little Miss Sunshine on Sunday evening with Robyn and Nicola and I really enjoyed it.

I'f you haven't seen it, I can really recommend it. Its a pretty feel good story about a dysfunctional family with a pretty dysfunctional car and about families just sticking up for each other. Its pretty funny and some really arbitraty scenes.

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So i figure, if you leave something to long you'll never blog it. Thats what happened. So here are a bunch of random events that come to me as I write this, and then im leaving old stuff and will blog forthcoming attractions. that makes no sense.

LSD (my company) wins the Novell - Technical Resource of the Year Award for our work in data centers. This is a pretty good achievement and we hope to expand on this in this year.
Novell Reducation was an amazing party with a lot of drunkeness. haha. enuff said.
My body for life program is going pretty well. I think im about on week 6 or 7 and im down from 25% body fat to 21%. so im pretty excited about that. Wish i took those before pictures!
I have two submit two assignments for unisa due tomorrow (2007-04-09). ack.
The world is a vampire. (ok, i have no idea)
I am currently craving indian food. And at 5 I will be going to watch 300. I will give a report back.
I reached level 40 in WoW. Pity I dont have enough cash for my mount yet. sigh.

Thats got to be enough random crap for now. Take it easy guys.
Guy! Thanks for a cool party on Friday at your place. It rocked.