Weird Al

I am doing my assignment at the moment, so I've got Channel V on the telly - otherwise I'd be glued to the tv watching repeats of Simpsons.

Anyway, saw the new Weird Al song called 'White and Nerdy'... very funny - and even more so when I see the original - Chamillionaire - Ridin'.

Awesome stuff.

iTunes 7.01

Finally - It's here.

The most frustrating thing I've found about the new iTunes is that I can't add more than one file at a time! Grrr..

Fingers crossed this will address that, although I'm glad I didn't come across some of the problems listed here.

Ben Folds ReCap

Awesome concert.

He played mostly songs from his 'Songs for Silverman' album (to be expected, I guess), as most of the arrangements for the Orchestra were done about 3 years ago.

I was really blown away by the richness of the sound coming from the orchestra, it's totally different to listening on headphones, or even a properly set up stereo. Hamer Hall is a pretty intimate venue, with super comfortable seats.

I thought it was interesting that there was not a lot of 'concert' type behaviour - Lighters going during ballads, standing.. from what I could see, it was nearly all people just sitting and appreciating the music - which is great - OMG - How old am I?!

Ben Folds

Righto - I'm going to Ben Folds on Saturday night - He's playing with the MSO at the arts centre, so that should be interesting! :)

I'm looking forward to it, not having seen live music since Metallica about 18 months ago.

No go..

I didn't get the job. I thought the interview went pretty well, and the indications were that I was going to sit down with another team leader and see what the go was - unfortunately not a winner though. Oh well, maybe another time.

Bugger it. I was looking forward to the new environment and large pay rise.

There are plenty of other jobs out there, I'll just have to get my certifications done and then do some more study, and whammo! :)

SQL Decode

Ah, useful.

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/sql/decode.html

Beta migration

Ok - I was hoping that there was some kind of way to migrate posts from the other 4 blogs that I've got into this one - it's not looking hopeful at the moment! :(

A few Jack things..

Little Jack is growing up fast! :)
Since the last blog post he is;
- Drinking from a cup, mostly with success! ;)
- more aware of what's going on around him
- he looks up automatically when planes/helicopters go past outside.
- saying a few words - mostly 'Gone' and 'Ta'
- Has 3 new teeth, with at least 1 more coming through.

He is developing a real personality now - although he's still very much attached to mum - whenever she goes out without him, he just cries. Poor little fella.

He is also starting to assert himself with Jude - Jude is a little bit of a bully (older brother syndrome! ;) ), and now Jack is starting to grab back things that Jude takes from him.

Sickness

Jude had a little bit of a cold/cough thing going on when we went to Queensland, but we decided that he wasn't so sick he needed to go to hospital. We've been back for 4 days now, and Jude changed treatments on Thursday just gone - and he had a raging (40.5) temperature while I was over getting the bits and pieces from Reuben's place.

The hospital have asked us to bring him in, so Rach has gone with him, and it's me and Jack for tonight.

Poor little guy.

Edit (9:00PM): He is eating now, which is great

Stools...

Not the brown smelly kind - more like the 4-legged ones you sit on.

Our new place has a very long breakfast bench, so we decided we needed some stools - and Reuben happens to have 4 high stools - perfect for our bench. I'm actually sitting at one right now - and it's the perfect height for our bench! :)

I also got a 400 cd case, a washing machine and a chest of drawers, which should go really nicely in our bedroom - and give us enough space to actually have everything away, rather than sitting in piles everywhere! :)

Tuesday is d-day!

Interview has been scheduled. Tuesday at 12pm. Brilliant stuff. I'm very excited.

Headhunted

While on holidays, I got a call from a headhunter - So I decided to send him my resume.

I managed to get a phone interview, which I finished about an hour ago - And I'm now waiting for my face-to-face interview to be scheduled.

:)

Yeee ha!

I've also teed up 2 fantastic referees, so that's great.

Beta Blogger

Looks pretty good - Some new template editing pages, which are pretty cool.

Also added labels - Now I just have to migrate the other blogs back into this one. Joy.

Assignment 1 Released

Ok - 1500 words on Microsoft. :)

Due October 16. Shouldn't be too much of a drama, I don't think. Wonder whether I'll have the text book by then, although a post from the tutor indicated that you probably don't need to have it. I might go with that method!

Also great is that the whole course is based on Assignment assessments, so no Exam! :)

Week 2

Payment Systems, Security, Risk Management

Sounds pretty boring to me! :)

BTC Wrap 2006

Ok, this year was an interesting one. Eugene and I made it to the new champions league - which is coaches from random other leagues, based on their performances in the past year. I lost the 2005 grand final, so I got a place.

We had the CL draft night before the work league, which was a real eye opener - The way that other coaches chose their teams was really different to the way I had been. Anyway, I took a very different approach for the Work league - Choosing to look at stat categories, and pick strong players in different categories, rather than using the generic calcuation method.

I have to say, it was pretty successful, culminating in a 9 point grand final win. I will also now get another crack at the Champions League, and hopefully do a bit better. Luckily John Barker has retired, so I wont be tempted to pick him! Doh!

CPT 21 - Week 2

• Addition and subtraction in different number systems.
• 2's complement, for representing negative numbers in binary.

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Holidays! :)

I've taken the next 2 weeks off work - and we are all going up to the Sunshine Coast for some restful warm weather.

:) I know that I've just jinxed us, but what can you do?