Family, Cool Stuff and Assorted Geekery; the finer things in life. Updated when I have something interesting to write :)
We got to the hotel by 8AM after some breakfast so there followed some enforced chilling while waited for the room. It was worth the wait though with us getting a great corner room with a view of the Opera House.
Then, we were off.
Continue reading “Mission : Survive ~30 hours without sleep.”
This was always going to be the interesting bit; up at 5AM for a 14 hour flight with us getting into Sydney at 6AM local time. We needed to be tired enough to sleep when night-time came round in Sydney but rested enough to not say enough suicidally stupid while getting through customs.
Tricky.
Continue reading “Mission : Survive Getting To Australia, pt 2”
So here we were; a pretty spontaneous (all planned, booked and paid for in a few weeks!) trip to Australia to take advantage of my contract finishing in time for the school holidays. The Overmind had worked like a trooper to get as much crammed into three weeks as possible and we had loads of fun stuff planned. First we had to get there with a quick stop in Dubai for a day to break up the massive flight.
Continue reading “Mission : Survive Getting To Australia, pt 1”
25% of the disk gone! The game’s afoot!
50 GB of disk space missing doesn’t sound like much, but when it’s on your 220 GB SSD it’s a fair old chunk of change. I had my suspicions that the space of all the folders and files didn’t add up to the usage figures on the disk and after a few Powershell shenanigans I was proved right.
Tried this out on the two open beta weekends. It was great fun, even assuming you’re not an old Marvel fan-boy. But who’s not, eh?
Sweden is pretty egalitarian.
It’s a Panda
Hall A at Dreamhack
From the EIZO Open official Flickr feed.
Stephano has stylish spectators 😀
Herring's Fishbait 