Archive | October, 2009

Sunshine!

Managed to snap this while it was completely pouring in Hobart today:

Would have been better as a HDR (would love to bring out the houses in the foreground), but that’s a little out of my iPhone’s league 😛

I guess this is a small reminder that no matter how bad everything seems at the time (and yes, it was bucketing down) there’s always something pretty awesome just around the corner; sunshine after rain.

This post part of Blogtober 2009. Sunshine after rain is kinda how you could describe my blog posts… I think.

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Fun in Data Management wasn’t something I thought possible!

But somehow, we managed. Behold:

What you see there, ladies and gents, is the fruits of a KXX131 survey on something inconsequential.

Now obviously we were expected to fill in the right-hand column with values from 1-6 indicating our preference.

Obviously, that didn’t happen. 😛

What did happen was some smart-arse response from me involving pi, a null value, and the number 10.

My survey response was pretty tame in comparison to James’ – that guy managed to sneak in phi, infinity, the square root of minus one, and natural e. Impressive, no?

KXX131, you were a decent subject. Between your “wang operators” and “crud”, you bought the lulz. It was a pity that your content was as dry as it was, then.

This post part of Blogtober 2009 – unlike the past two posts, this one isn’t late. There’s no guarantee that the next couple of posts won’t be, though 😉

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Internode are AWESOME!

Yes, the return of “is AWESOME!” posts.

Finally, you might say.

In any case: Internode. New levels of awesome every day.

Unmetered content, including Linux distros, files, and more. An impressive 16 TERABYTES of content in all, if I remember correctly.

Now they’ve gone and raised my usage limit again, with their new Easy Broadband plan. On this plan, I get 50GB of usage to use every month, at 1500/256 speeds, or the fastest available at my exchange (so theoretically I could be getting ADSL2+ speeds if Telstra lifted their game), all for $50 a month.

Too easy.

Internode. New levels of awesome.

This post brought to you by Blogtober 2009. Yes, this is the third time I’ve been late, but there were other considerations, okay?

The Fun Theory.

We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.

via YouTube – Piano stairs – Rolighetsteorin.se – The fun theory.

Stuff like this is pretty awesome.

This post part of Blogtober 2009. I could be blogging about my recent Google Wave experiences, the fact that I have 3 assignments due within the next couple of days, or the fact that I like sleeping, but you know, this’ll have to do.

Someone think of the napkins!

A little late, but here you are anyway:

Behold. The most important contents of my Windows 7 party pack.

What isn’t pictured: Windows 7 themed gift bags, Windows 7 themed poster, Windows 7 themed cardboard marketing material.

This post part of Blogtober 2009. This is the second time I’ve posted late, so here’s hoping there won’t be a third.

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And now for something different – Hitler’s Downfall

So I have noticed everyone has been making subtitles of their own to this famous scene from Downfall or Der Untergang and I decided to post it with the subtitles that what he is actually saying, so enjoy.

via YouTube – Hitler’s Downfall Original Subtitles.

Instead of posting about my somewhat epic and numerous bus misadventures, I thought I’d mix it up by posting something a little left field, if you will.

There’s a meme going around at the moment where people put different subtitles to the clip above (Hitler’s Downfall, or Der Untergang), resulting in some HIL-A-RI-OUS combinations.

The face expressions, the pure rage, all accentuated by any topic you like – pure meme genius.

What you see above are the original subs to the film – that is actually what he says in the movie (except in German, of course).

I’ve shown you the clip above so you can better understand the follow-ons below. I’ve only linked the ones that are actually worth watching – there are many more, but are either not funny or just not worth linking here.

Enjoy!

This post part of Blogtober 2009. A post a day keeps the RSS away. Or something.