I could be a BigPond fan…

This is just so amaz­ingly fast! I just grabbed a 330-odd MB CD image in around ten min­utes. I know you can get all kinds of the­o­ret­i­cal num­bers, but that works out to a through-put of about 4000kbps. Yeouch. Read the rest of this entry »

# by Josh on November 28th, 2004 Tags: , ,
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Another missing day

I would have posted yes­ter­day, but for the fact that I’d been screw­ing with DNS stuff (fool­ishly on my www record) yes­ter­day, and it was most unfor­giv­ing come time to change it back. Whilst I’d nor­mally see changes fairly quickly, this time around my ISP’s DNS servers (and pre­sum­ably what­ever ISP I’m using as my sec­ondary) were excru­ci­at­ingly slow to update. So, I haven’t been able to login to my admin panel, hence the lack of posting!

Hmm. Aside from that, of course, other things have been hap­pen­ing. Yes­ter­day was my brother’s 8th birth­day — I would say happy birth­day, but he doesn’t read this, so there we go. :P We went out to Juanita’s, a great Mex­i­can restaru­ant in Kens­ing­ton, and… umm… ate food. As you do.

The rest yes­ter­day was spent on a vari­ety of things, from fran­ti­cally edit­ing CSS and the occa­sional graphic (all visual design work, thank­fully — I’ve decided that I shouldn’t make a habit of pro­gram­ming, as it’s some­thing I reg­u­larly fall flat on my face try­ing!) for an upcom­ing web­site, to read­ing Hen­rik Ibsen’s 1877 play, A Doll’s House. Read the rest of this entry »

# by Josh on October 11th, 2004 Tags: , , , , , , ,
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What’s my email address again?

I’ve received another bout of email intended for some­one else’s eyes today, which is remark­ably irri­tat­ing. More so, as it is evi­dent that these emails come as a result of that per­son think­ing they still have the address which they have aban­doned, and I have acquired. That’s what hap­pens when you have in ISP-based address, I guess, but I got it before pur­chas­ing this domain, and it’s being retained for the next while, at least until the quan­ti­ties of spam pour­ing into it get too ridicu­lous. Read the rest of this entry »

# by Josh on October 6th, 2004 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Happy Birthday Kylie!

And lots of stuff like that!  Woo.  Hope you had a great day :)

I spent last night @ the Cat’s res­i­dence (a.k.a. the Cat-man) watch­ing a movie called “The Whole Nine Yards”.  Hehe, I watched TV!  Wow!

Also been spend­ing time burn­ing up the band­width as much as pos­si­ble stream­ing stuff, espe­cially off The­Base­ment.  Any par­tic­u­lar rea­son?  Nope.  I’ve decided that, just like the rest of iiNet appar­ently sees a need to, I must down­load as much as pos­si­ble just bea­cuse I’m allo­cated ridicu­lous amounts of quota by my… gen­er­ous ISP.  Who, just for the record, cur­rently have a dis­tinct lack of func­tion­ing inter­na­tional links, whilst West­Net, Pacific, Tel­stra (who is being blamed for the out­age) and mis­cel­la­neous other ISP’s are func­tion­ing per­fectly (how do I know this?  Hmm.  I’m lis­ten­ing to stream­ing music live from the US via a Pacific relay, surf­ing the inter­net using a Tel­stra proxy, resolv­ing hosts using a TPG DNS server (iiNets went out, again), and Whirlpool reports West­Net as work­ing fine.)

To be fair, iiNet have been decent for the last month or three, but still… UNCOOL.

# by Josh on July 4th, 2004 Tags: , , , , ,
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