One beans place in space.
Sometimes you see something that makes you laugh so hard your stomach hurts. This is one of those times.
#5 – Multiplication
#4 – The Senses Song
#3 – Yakko’s Universe Song
#2 – Yakko’s Nations of The World
#1 – Star Truck – the Star Trek Parody
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted an update on whats going on. Lots has changed since my last post too! This site (and the others hosted here) have been moved to a new server kindly donated by Andrew Van Slageren – which means the old dual P3 1Ghz with 1Gb of RAM has been replaced with a 1RU Dual Opteron 2.4Ghz with 7Gb of RAM. I had a few issues with the server running out of RAM(!), however a bit of tweaking over the past few days seems to have brought that under control.
In the phone world, I’ve moved on to a HTC Touch Pro 2. This is a fantastic phone. I did have an issue with the USB connector on the phone and had to send it in for a warranty claim, however it seems to be much better now. There are still a few minor issues with keyboard LED brightness on one key – I can live with that though. The stock ROM from HTC is pretty damn good – certainly a big step from back in the Hermes days where the stock ROMs were full of crud. I’m even liking WM6.5 – which was something I found VERY hard to do on the old Hermes – probably due to the lack of CPU/RAM on the older models.
I’ve started doing from night VFR for my flight training – however as the beginning of winter is rolling in it is making it difficult to get suitable days. Due to the height of the Melbourne CBD the cloud base needs to be 3100ft or heigher – which is rare right now.
I’ve also rejigged all my home systems to run on Xen in CentOS 5.5. I upgraded my old fileserver to an Intel Core i5 CPU which supports hardware virtualisation and now have many linux VMs and one Windows XP VM. Much more useful than running a single instance on a physical machine! I now have 1 PC for Asterisk (as it doesn’t run in a VM well!), 1 PC for my VMs, 1 x Via CN1000 as my router (using a CF card as a HDD), my Mac Pro as my desktop, a Dell Inspiron 8600 as my girlfriends main system, and a new ASUS EEEPC 1005P as my netbook. I think this is the favourite setup I have ever had for computing!
Well, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted an update on here. Things have been quite insane in the last few months with a number of fun things happening.
Talk about exciting! I’m trying to save up some cash to get myself a HTC Touch Pro 2 to do some development work on and provide a port of my ROM for owners of that device – it shows a lot of promise! If you feel like helping out, feel free to throw $1-5 my way via paypal 
Most of the world probably doesn’t know about the heat wave that has hit Melbourne (and indeed the rest of Victoria) over the past few weeks. Every day was above 40 degrees C!
At one particular home in Victoria the temperature has been above 44 degrees all week and they are forecasting another week of 40+ temperatures. Power is failing, trains have stopped running because tracks are buckling under the heat . It’s just scorching. It seems that the people are not the only ones suffering.
Check out these photos of a little Koala which just walked onto a back porch looking for a bit of heat relief. The woman filled up a bucket for it and this is what happened!
So after closing my Facebook account, I wanted to have somewhere to put my massive stash of photos. After much cursing and hacking of other peoples PHP, I now have a photo gallery!
Enjoy browsing 